Liehuang Zhu is a Professor and the Vice Dean in the School of Computer Science and Technology at Beijing Institute of Technology. He is selected into the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University from Ministry of Education, P. R. China. Liehuang Zhu has published 50+ jour-nal papers and 40+ conference papers in recent years, including (including IEEE TDSC, IEEE TIFS, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Wireless Communica-tions, IEEE IoT, IEEE Network, IEEE TSG, IEEE TVT, IEEE Access, Information Sciences, IEEE/ACM IWQoS, IEEE IPCCC, IEEE GLOBECOM). He has served as the Chair in SmartBlock 2018, and the program committee chair in BcADS 2019, MSN 2017, InTrust 2014, and InTrust 2011. He was a Guest Editor for the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine in 2018. He has been granted three best paper awards in IEEE/ACM conferences, including IEEE TrustCom 2018, IEEE/ACM I-WQoS 2017, and IEEE IPCCC 2014. He has been awarded as an Excellent Advisor in China Institute of Communications Excellent Doctoral Dissertation and China National College Student Information Security Contest. His research interests include cryptographic algorithms and secure protocols, Internet of Things security, cloud computing security, big data privacy, mobile and Internet security, and trusted computing.Keke Gai received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science at Pace University, New York, USA. He also holds degrees from Nanjing University of Science and Technology (BEng), The University of British Columbia (MET) and Lawrence Technological University (MBA and MS). He is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Technology at Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China. Keke Gai has published more than 90 peer-reviewed journals or conference papers in re-cent years, including 30+ journal papers (including ACM/IEEE Transactions) and 50+ conference papers. He has been granted five IEEE Best Paper Awards (IEEE TrustCom18, IEEE HPCC18, IEEE SSC16, IEEE CSCloud15, IEEE BigDataSe-curity’15) and two IEEE Best Student Paper Awards (SmartCloud16, HPCC16) by IEEE conferences in recent years. His paper about cloud computing has been ranked as the Most Downloaded Articles” of Journal of Network and Computer Applica-tions (JNCA). He is involved in a number of professional/academic associations, including ACM and IEEE. His research interests include cyber security, cloud com-puting, blockchain, combinatorial optimization, and edge computing.Meng Li is currently working towards the Ph.D. degree with the School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Tech-nology and he is a visiting Ph.D. student in Wilfrid Laurier University. He has re-ceived the National Graduate Student Scholarship in 2011. He has been sponsored by China Scholarship Council High-level University Graduate Student Government-Sponsored Program and Beijing Institute of Technology High Level Ph.D. Disser-tation Nursery Funding in 2017. His research interests are applied cryptography, security and privacy, vehicular networks, fog computing and blockchain.
