Valentina Emilia Balas is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania. She holds a PhD cum Laude in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is the author of more than 350 research papers. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the 'International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms' and the 'International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering', an editorial board member for several other national and international publications, and an expert evaluator for national and international projects and PhD theses. Oana Geman is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Education and Sport at the University of Suceava, Romania. She holds a PhD in Electronics and Telecommunication and a postdoc in Computer Science (2012). Over the past 5 years, she has published 6 books and more than 76 articles; her various works have been cited more than 660 times. She is a member of IEEE, has served as the chair or organizer of many international conferences, and is a reviewer for many top journals in the field. Dr. Guojun Wang is a Pearl River Scholarship Distinguished Professor of Higher Education in GuangdongProvince, a Vice Dean and a Doctoral Supervisor of the School of Computer Science, Guangzhou University,China. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, at Central South University, China. He received the2014 First Prize of the National Natural Science Award, State Council of the People's Republic of China. He was listed in "Chinese Most Cited Researchers" (Computer Science) by Elsevier in the past five consecutive years.He was formerly a Professor at Central South University, China; an Adjunct Professor at Temple University,USA; a Visiting Scholar at Florida Atlantic University, USA; a Visiting Researcher at the University of Aizu,Japan; and a Research Fellow at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK. His research interests includeArtificial Intelligence, Big Data, cloud computing, mobile computing, trustworthy/dependable computing,cyberspace security, recommendation systems, and mobile healthcare systems. He has published more than 400technical papers and books/chapters in the above areas. His research is supported by Key Project of the NationalNatural Science Foundation of China, the National High-Tech Research and Development Plan of China (863Plan), and the Ministry of Education Fund for Doctoral Disciplines in Higher Education. He has served as anassociate editor or on the editorial board of several international journals, including IEEE Transactions onParallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Security and Communication Networks (SCN), and InternationalJournal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS). He is the Leading Steering Chair of the IEEEInternational Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), theLeading Steering Chair of the International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation,Communication and Storage (SpaCCS), and the Leading Steering Chair of the International Conference on SmartCity and Informatization (iSCI). His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, cloud computing, and cyberspacesecurity, data mining, image processing, medical image processing, Privacy, Security, and E-learning. Currently,he is working on privacy and security of vehicular networks. Previously he was a lecturer at the University ofGujrat, Pakistan. He recently completed his Ph.D. degree from Guangzhou University, China. He is author of morethan 40 SCIE and ESCI journal publications, and more than 15 conference publications. He has more than 700citations, according to Google Scholar. He is an Editorial Board member of International Journal of AdvancedIntelligence Paradigms (IJAIP) and International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering (IJCSysE). He is a reviewer of many well-known journals, including IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology, IOT Journal,Plos-One, Sensors, Vehicular Communication and Journal of Network and Computer Applications. He joined the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa/ ISCTE-IUL Lisbon in 2011, where he is Associate Professor,Director of the Doctoral Program on Science and Information Technology and Director of Instituto deTelecomunicações (IT-IUL) research center. His fields of interest are smart sensors for biomedical andenvironmental applications, IoT for smart healthcare, wireless sensor networks, signal processing for biomedicalapplications and computational intelligence with application in automated measurement systems. He is a leader andactive member of research teams involved in Portuguese and International projects such as Tailored Environmentsfor Smart Physiotherapy. Dr. Postolache is author and co-author of 10 patents as well as Modern SensingTechnologies and Pervasive and Mobile Sensing and Computing for Healthcare, both from Springer. He has servedin the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society since 1999, and is also an IEEE Senior Member. He isDistinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS), international chair of IEEEIMS TC-13 Wireless and Telecommunications in Measurements, and he is current chair of IEEE IMS PortugalChapter. He is a member of the steering committee of Medical Measurement and Application Symposium. He wasthe founder of a new international conference in the field of sensors and instrumentation for IoT technical sponsoredby Instrumentation and Measurement Society that was successfully organized in 2018 and 2019 (ISSI 2018,Shanghai, ISSI 2019, Lisbon). He is Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors, and IEEE Transactions on Instrumentationand Measurement.
