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 holds a PhD in Information Technology from Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. His research interests include data privacy and security, cloud computing, scalable data processing, data systems and related various research topics. His research results have been published in more than 200 papers in international journals and conferences, including various IEEE/ACM Transactions. He received various awards such as Editorial Excellence and Eminence Award of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (2018), and UTS Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Research Excellence Highly Commended (2014). He is currently an Associate Editor for ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Transactions on Computers and IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing. He is a MAE (Academia Europea), Highly Cited Researcher (2021) and IEEE Fellow (IEEE Computer Society).

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 Principal Research Scientist with Google and an Adjunct Research Prof. at Columbia University. He got his PhD from Columbia University in 1988. Previously, he was with IBM Research, Certco, RSA Laboratories, and Snap. He is also an adjunct senior research faculty at Columbia, where he has co-advised and worked with PhD students. Among his awards: The IEEE Computer Society 2021 "Computer Pioneer Award" and 2018 "W. Wallace McDowell Award." In 2014 he received the ACM's "SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award," and ESORICS "Outstanding Research Award," while in 2010 he gave the IACR's Distinguished Lecture. Yung is a fellow of the ACM, IEEE, IACR, EATCS (European Assoc. for Theoretical Computer Science), and AAIA. His current service includes being an editor of Springer's LNCS series, a board member of the IACR, and the president of the International Financial Cryptography Association. Yung's papers with over 365 authors broadly cover numerous areas of cryptography, privacy, and security.

Zheli Liu is vice dean of College of Computer Science, vice dean of College of Cyber Science, Nankai University, now. He received the BSc and MSc degrees in computer science from Jilin University, China, in 2002 and 2005, respectively. He received the PhD degree in computer application from Jilin University, in 2009. After a postdoctoral fellowship in Nankai University, he joined the College of Computer and Control Engineering, Nankai University, in 2011. He is the Professor of Nankai University now. His current research interests include applied cryptography and data privacy protection. He has published more than 50 papers in well-known journals or top conferences, including Usenix Security, VLDB, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TC, IEEE TSC, IEEE INFOCOM and so on. Nine papers have been the Top 1% highly cited papers. He was the chairs of several international conferences, including SPNCE 2021, SOCIALSEC 2020, SPNCE 2019, ICA3PP 2018, CSE2017, SPNCE2016, BWCCA2015, EIDWT2013, etc. He is the Associate editor of Springer Cybersecurity, HCIS, and has served as guest editors for many well-known journals, including Springer MoNET, Elsevier JNCA, etc.

Hongyang Yan is currently an associate professor of Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain, Guangzhou University. She got Her Ph.D degree in Computer Science and Technology from Nankai University at 2019. Her research interests include information privacy in machine learning, federated learning and cloud storage. She has published more than 30 papers in international conferences and journals, including Information Sciences, ACM TOIT, FGCS, Applied Soft Computing etc. She has received best paper awards of international conference such as CSS 2019, ProvSec 2021. She is an academic editor of International Journal of Intelligent Systems. She also serves as program committee and publication chairs of many international conference such as ML4CS 2022, DMBD 2021, ML4CS 2020.

Qi Feng is currently an associate researcher of the School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Wuhan University. She got her Ph.D. degree in cyberspace security from School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Wuhan University at 2021. Her research interests include cryptographic protocols, secure multi-party computation. She has published more than 10 papers in international conferences and journals, including IEEE TIFS, IEEE TII, FGCS, IEEE Systems Journal, etc. Her Google citations is more than 800 since 2018 with two most-cited papers recorded in ESI. She has received best paper awards of international conference such as CSS 2022 and journals such as JNCA 2020. She is an academic editor of Journal of Information Security and Applications. She also serves as reviewer of many conferences such as ESORICS 2020, ESORICS 2021 and ESORICS 2022.