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Anthony TS Ho
Anthony TS Ho
Born	1958; Hong Kong
Nationality	British, Canadian
Citizenship	United Kingdom, Canada
Alma mater	Kings College London, Imperial College, Northumbria University
Known for	watermarking, steganography, steganalysis, digital forensics, biometrics, Benford's law
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	University of Surrey, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Prof. Anthony TS Ho (何东旋教授) FIET, FInstP, FBCS, CEng, CPhys is a UK computer scientist and Professor of Multimedia Security.

Biography[edit]

Anthony TS Ho received his PhD in Digital Image Processing at Kings College London in 1983. He was awarded an MSc in Applied Optics at Imperial College in 1980. Prior to that, he graduated with a BSc in Physical Electronics from Newcastle Polytechnic (now Northumbria University) in 1979. From 1994 to 2015, he was a Senior Lecturer, then Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He moved to the University of Surrey in 2006 as Professor of Multimedia Security, and was Head of the Department of Computer Science from 2010 until 2015. He was awarded the Tianjin Distinguished Visiting Professorship^[1] by the Tianjin Municipal Commission of Education, Tianjin, China in 2016, hosted by the Tianjin University of Science and Technology. He is also a Visiting Professor at Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China.

Ho is internationally known for his research in digital watermarking, digital forensics, steganography and steganalysis. He was the recipient of the prestigious Institution of Engineering and Technology Innovation in Engineering Award under the Security category for his research and commercialisation work on digital watermarking in 2006. His current focus and interest is on the applications of Benford's law in digital forensics and anomaly detection, which he has presented a number of keynotes at international conferences recently^[2]^[3]. He currently serves on a number of international editorial boards including as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Information Security and Applications (JISA)^[4] and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.