Prof. Allen Man Ho Au

• BOCHK STIP Laureate 2023 (FinTech)
• Professor and Associate Head of the Department of Computing, Director of the Research Centre for Blockchain Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. 

Prof. Allen Man Ho Au previously held faculty positions at the University of Hong Kong and the University of Wollongong. His research focuses on cybersecurity, cryptography, and blockchain technologies. Prof. Au has received several major honors, including the Hong Kong Engineering Science and Technology Award (2024–25), the BOCHK Science and Technology Innovation Prize in FinTech (2023), and two international ZPrize awards. He is a member of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s CBDC Expert Group and actively contributes to the development of cryptographic technologies and digital identity frameworks.