George Robert Blakley, Jr.
Professor

Education

• D.U. Honoris Causa, Queensland U. Technology, 2001
• Ph.D. in Mathematics, U. Maryland-College Park, 1960
• M.S. in Mathematics, U. Maryland-College Park, 1959
• A.B. in Physics, Georgetown U., 1954

In the Profession

• 2009-death, Fellow, Intl. Assoc. for Cryptological Res.
• 2000, Founder, Springer-Verlag Intl. J. Info. Security
• 1996, Adjunct Prof., Info Security Research Center, QUT
• 1993-1995, Elected Member, Board of Directors, IACR
• 1979-1983, Soc. Industrial and Appl. Math. (SIAM) Visiting Lecturer in Appl. Math.
• 1976-1977, Chairman, Texas Section, Math. Assoc. of America
• 1970-1978, Head, Dept. of Math., TAMU
• 1970-now, Prof. of Math., TAMU
• 1968-1970, SIAM Visiting Lecturer in Biomathematics
• 1967-1968, Vice-Chmn and Director of Undergraduate Studies, State U. NY-Buffalo
• 1966-1970, Assoc. Prof. of Math., SUNYAB
• 1962-1966, Asst. Prof. of Math., U. Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
• 1961-1962, Natl. Acad. Sci.-Natl. Research Council Postdoc Research Fellow, Math., Harvard U.
• 1961-1962, Fellow, Harvard Corporation
• 1960-1961, Office Naval Research Postdoc Research Associate, Math., Cornell U.

Research or Scholarly Interests

1979-now, 40+ papers in info. science, public key cryptography, secret sharing and general codes.
1962-1983, 15+ papers in complex analysis, number theory, combinatorics, linear analysis, inequalities, nonlinear transformations and their applications to economics, biology and chemistry.

Major Awards

• 2002-2003, TAMU Faculty Development Leave
• 2001, QUT Honorary "Doctor of the U" for Info. Sci. Achievements (see education above)
• 2009, Awarded U.S. Patent #7 502 468 (generating cryptographically random numbers)
• 2007, Awarded U.S. Patent #7 218 734 (ring arithmetic method, system and apparatus)

Notable Recent Grants

• TAMU: Telecommunications and Informatics Task Force, (Co-PI) (with Wei Zhao), 2001-2004.
• NSDA: MDA 904-83-H-0002, (PI), 1982-1985.
• NSA: MDA 904-83-0002, (PI), 1982-1985.
• NSF: MCS-7908516, (PI), 1979-1982.

Five Selected Publications or Scholarly Works

• G.R. Blakley, I. Borosh, T. Holcomb, and A. Klappenecker, Categorical code constructions, Int. J. Pure Appl. Math. 12 (2004), 361-385.
• W. Aitken, G.R. Blakley, E. Okamoto, and P.F. Stiller, Simple permutation ciphers using permutation polynomials, Proc. Intl. Symp. Info. Theory Appl., Vol. 1, Sydney, Australia, 1994.
• G.R. Blakley and W. Rundell, Cryptosystems based on an analog of heat flow, Proc. Crypto '87, Vol. 293, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1988.
• G.R. Blakley and C. Meadows, Security of ramp schemes, Proc. Crypto '84, Vol. 196, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1985.
• G.R. Blakley, Iterates of a nonnegative nonlinear transformation, Bull. Amer. Math Soc. (1964).

Recent Synergistic Activities

• 2000-2005, Member, Management Board, ISRC, Faculty of Info. Technology, QUT

Recent Graduate Students and/or Postdocs

• Col. Trae D. Holcomb, Ph.D. graduate, 2002
• Hao Zheng, Ph.D. graduate, 1998