A/Prof. Mu received his PhD from the Australian National University in 1994. He was previously with the School of Computing and IT at the University of Western Sydney as a lecturer and the Department of Computing at Macquarie University as a senior lecturer. He has been with the University of Wollongong since 2003. His current research interests include network security, electronic payment, cryptography, access control, and computer security. He also previously worked in the areas of quantum cryptography, quantum computers, atomic computations, and quantum optics. He has published over 200 research papers.

A/Prof. Mu is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the IACR.