Guojun Tang

During my time at South China Normal University, I learnt the basic skills of computer science and began to get an insight into information security. Under the guidance of my undergraduate advisor, Dr. Zheng Gong, I participated in the design of a block cipher (SWAN cipher). In addition to the professional capabilities, I gained many important soft skills, like teamwork and project management.

Besides, I attended many extracurricular activities related to my major and gained many hands-on experiences. This included joining Network Association, a student association where I met many like-minded colleagues and learnt a lot about web applications. I was also a member of the Cybersecurity Team in my college, where my daily routine included preventing cyber attacks from our college’s websites and representing our college in competitions concerning cybersecurity such as Capture The Flag (CTF).

The graduate studies at the University of New Brunswick allowed me to go deeper into computer science, and the eminent professors at UNB guided my academic career. I began my research on Privacy-Preservation under the supervision of Dr. Rongxing Lu, where I learned how to apply cryptography tools to various applications as well as certain academic skills. Later on, I participated in the NRC-CNRC co-op program and conducted research for WeightedSim, a privacy-preserving data similarity query strategy based on weighted Euclidean distance. Here is my UNB transcript.

I was a PHP engineer intern at 49You. During my time at this company, I was primarily responsible for maintaining the web Content Management System, which was developed using ThinkPHP and JQuery. My daily responsibilities included bug fixes and updates to the online system.

I attended the NRC-CNRC co-op program as a graduate student. I met my supervisor, Dr. Mohammad Mamun, at NRC. With the assistance of Dr. Lu and Dr. Mamun, I successfully conducted and concluded my WeightedSim research, which included designing the scheme, conducting a security analysis, implementing experimental programs (in Java), and writing the paper. At the end of my co-op program, I gave an presentation about my work at NRC to my coworkers.