Academic Qualification: Ph.D. in Computer Science, Houston University, USA, 2008 Master in Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin, USA, 2001 Bachelor in Computer Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, China, 1996 Teaching Area Data Structures Fundamentals of Computer Programming Working Experience 2010 to present: Assistant Professor, FIT, MUST 2009: Postdoctoral Fellow, LDCSEE Department, West Virginial University, USA

Formal Methods Information Security Theory of Computation and Algorithms

Member of IEEE, 2005 to present

Zhiyao Liang and Rakesh Verma, “Correcting and Improving the NP Proof of Cryptographic Protocol Insecurity”, to appear in Proceedings of Information Systems Security, 5th International Conference, ICISS 2009, pages 101-116, Kolkata, India, LNCS, December, 2009. Zhiyao Liang and Rakesh Verma, “Complexity of Checking Freshness for Cryptographic Protocols”, In Proceedings of Information Systems Security, 4th International Conference, ICISS 2008, pages 86-106, Hyderabad, India, LNCS, December, 2008. Zhiyao Liang and Rakesh Verma, “Improving Techniques for Proving Undecidability of Checking Cryptographic Protocols”, In Proceedings of The Third International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, ARES, pages 1067-1074, Barcelona, Spain, IEEE, March, 200. Zhiyao Liang and Rakesh Verma, “Secrecy Checking of Security Protocols: Solution to an Open Problem”, Joint Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security and Automated Reasoning for Security Protocol Analysis, FCS-ARSPA, pages 95-112, Wroclaw, Poland, July, 2007. “Model Checking Using Tabled Rewriting”, Zhiyao Liang, Contributions to the Doctoral Programme of the 2nd International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR Doctoral Programme, Cork, Ireland, July 2004.