Prof. Dr. Heng Swee Huay is currently a Professor at Faculty of Information Science and Technology (FIST), Multimedia University. She was the Vice President (Research & Development) from 2013 to 2017, and the Dean of FIST from 2011 to 2013, and the Deputy Dean of FIST from 2005 to 2011. She has about 20 years of research experience in the areas of Cryptography and Information Security. She obtained her Doctorate degree in the area of Cryptography and Information Security from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan; and both her B.Sc. (Hons) and M.Sc. degrees were from Universiti Putra Malaysia.

She has been appointed the Section Representative for the IEICE Malaysia Section (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Japan) since February 2015. Some of her important professional involvements are such as Committee Member of the Working Group for Standardisation on Cryptography and Security Mechanisms, SIRIM, since 2011; Selection Committee of the Anugerah Akademik Negara (Malaysian National Academic Awards), under the Ministry of Higher Education, since 2014.

In view of her expertise, she has been invited to serve as Technical Programme Committee of more than 60 international security conferences and also as Reviewer for various journals. She has also been leading several government funded research projects as Principal Investigator.