Elisa Bertino is a professor at the Department of Computer Science, Purdue University. She heads the Cyber Space Security Lab carrying out groundbreaking research on protection from insider threat, security of IoT, sensors, embedded systems, and drones, digital identity management, data security and privacy on the cloud, privacy of mobile devices. Her research interests cover many areas in the fields of information security and database systems. Her recent research focuses on security of cellular networks, mobile applications, and AI techniques for cybersecurity. She is co-editor in chief of GeoInformatica and has served as EiC of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, and editor of the Synthesis Lectures on Information Security, Privacy, and Trust.

Xuemin Lin is a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales. Currently, he is the head of data and knowledge research group in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales. Prof. Lin is a fellow of IEEE. He got his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Queensland in 1992 and his Bachelor's Degree of Science in Applied Math from Fudan University in 1984. Prof. Lin started his teaching in the Computer Science Department at the University of Western Australia in 1994 after a 2 years research fellow appointment at the University of Queensland. He joined the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales in 1997. He is a distinguished visiting Professor at Tsinghua University and a visiting Chair Professor at Fudan University. Prof. Lin currently is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.

Dr. Jinjun Chen is a Professor from Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. He is Deputy Director of Swinburne Data Science Research Institute. He holds a PhD in Information Technology from Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. His research interests include data privacy and security, cloud computing, data systems and related various research topics. His research results have been published in more than 180 papers in international journals and conferences, including various IEEE/ACM Transactions. He received various awards such as such as Editorial Excellence and Eminence Award of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (2018), UTS Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Research Excellence Highly Commended (2014). He is an Associate Editor for ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering as well as other journals such as Journal of Computer and System Sciences.

Yan Zhang (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S. degree from Beihang University, the M.S. degree from Nanjing University of Post and Telecommunications, and the Ph.D. degree from the School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway. His research interests include next-generation wireless networks leading to 6G, green, and secure cyber–physical systems. Since 2018, he has been a recipient of the global “Highly Cited Researcher” Award. He is an (Area/Senior/Associate) Editor for several IEEE transactions/magazine, including IEEE Network Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, etc. He is a Fellow of IET and an Elected Member of Academia Europaea, the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters , and the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.

Xinghua Li, professor, doctoral supervisor, the winner of the National Natural Science Foundation of China's Distinguished Young Scholars Fund. In 2019, he won the National Top Ten "Network Security Excellent Teacher Award" by the Central Network Information Office, the first prize of the Ministry of Education's Science and Technology Progress Award, the first prize of the China Institute of Communications Technology Invention, the first prize of the China Institute of Communications Science and Technology, and the innovation of science and technology workers in Shaanxi Province. Entrepreneurship Competition Gold and Silver Awards. He has published more than 100 academic papers including Infocom, IEEE TDSC, TPDS, TMC, TII, TITS, TSC, TVT, etc., and published 4 monographs/chapters.

Jin Li is currently a professor and vice dean of School of Computer Science, Guangzhou University. His research interests include Trust and Dependable Artificial Intelligence, Cloud computing, Blockchain. He proposed the method of secure fuzzy keyword search and reliable key management of deduplication in cloud computing. He has published more than 100 papers in international conferences and journals, including IEEE TDSC, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TPDS, IEEE TC and ESORICS etc. He also served as program chairs/publicity chairs for many international conferences such as IEEE Blockchain 2018, ICA3PP2018, IEEE CNS 2015, etc. He received three National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Grants and more than ten Grants from Guangdong Province and other departments for the research on security and privacy in new computing environments. In 2017, he received NSFC Outstanding Youth Foundation. In 2018, he was selected as a Young Changjiang River Scholar in China.

Moti Yung is a Security and Privacy Research Scientist with Google. He got his PhD from Columbia University in 1988. Previously, he was with IBM Research, Certco, RSA Laboratories, and Snap. Yung is a fellow of the IEEE, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), and the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). In 2010 he gave the IACR Distinguished Lecture. He is the recipient of the 2014 ACM’s SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation award, the 2014 ESORICS (European Symposium on Research in Computer Security) Outstanding Research award, an IBM Outstanding Innovation award, a Google OC award, and a Google founders’ award.