Elisa Bertino is the Distinguished Samuel Conte professor of Computer Science at Purdue University. She serves as Director of the Purdue Cyberspace Security Lab (Cyber2Slab). Prior to joining Purdue, she was a professor and department head at the Department of Computer Science and Communication of the University of Milan. She has been a visiting researcher at the IBM Research Laboratory in San Jose (now Almaden), at Rutgers University, at Telcordia Technologies. She has also held visiting professor positions at the Singapore National University and the Singapore Management University.  Her recent research focuses on security and privacy of cellular networks and IoT systems, and on edge analytics for cybersecurity.  Elisa Bertino is a Fellow member of ACM, IEEE, and AAAS. She received the 2002 IEEE Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award for “For outstanding contributions to database systems and database security and advanced data management systems”, the 2005 IEEE Computer Society Tsutomu Kanai Award for “Pioneering and innovative research contributions to secure distributed systems”, the 2019-2020 ACM Athena Lecturer Award, and the 2021 IEEE 2021 Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award. She received an Honorary Doctorate from Aalborg University in 2021 and an Honorary Research Doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Salerno in 2023. She is currently serving as ACM Vice-president.

Robert Deng (Fellow, IEEE) is AXA Chair Professor of cybersecurity, the Director of the Secure Mobile Centre, and the Deputy Dean for Faculty and Research, School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University (SMU). His research interests are in the areas of data security and privacy, network security, and system security. He received the Outstanding University Researcher Award from the National University of Singapore, the Lee Kuan Yew Fellowship for Research Excellence from SMU, and the Asia–Pacific Information Security Leadership Achievements Community Service Star from the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium. He serves/served on many editorial boards and conference committees, including the Editorial Boards of ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, the IEEE Security and Privacy, the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, the Journal of Computer Science and Technology, and the Steering Committee Chair of the ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore.

Mianxiong Dong is the Vice President and Professor of Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan. His research interests include Wireless Networks, Cloud Computing, and Cyber-physical Systems. He has published over 480 academic papers, of which more than half are published in top journals such as IEEE JSAC, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TPDS, as well as top conferences including IEEE INFOCOM. A total of 7 papers have been selected as ESI Hot Papers (top 0.1%), and 33 papers have been selected as ESI Highly Cited Papers (top 1%). He serves as the Principal Investigator of more than ten research projects, including Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI and KDDI Foundation, Program Officer (PO) of JST Support for Pioneering Research Initiated by the Next Generation (SPRING). He is the recipient of NISTEP Researcher 2018 (one of only 11 people in Japan) in recognition of significant contributions in science and technology, The Young Scientists’ Award from MEXT in 2021, SUEMATSU-Yasuharu Award from IEICE in 2021, IEEE TCSC Middle Career Award in 2021. He is Clarivate Analytics 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science), Fellow of AAIA, Foreign Fellow of EAJ.

Currently, Professor Xinbo Gao is a Professor of Control Science and Engineering, Xidian University and President of Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications. His research interests include computer vision, machine learning, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and smart city. In these fields, he has published 6 books and around 300 technical articles in refereed journals and proceedings. He is on the Editorial Boards of several journals, including Signal Processing (Elsevier), and Neurocomputing (Elsevier). He served as the General Chair/Co-Chair, Program Committee Chair/Co-Chair, or PC Member for around 30 major international conferences. In addition, Dr. Gao is a Fellow of IET/IEE, and Vice Chairman of IET Xi'an Network; Senior Member of IEEE; Member of IEEE Xi'an Section Executive Committee, and the Membership Development Committee Chair, Vice President of Computational Intelligence Chapter, IEEE Xi'an Section and Member of Technical Committee of Cognitive Computing, IEEE SMC Society; Vice President of ACM Xi'an Board; Board Member of China Computer Federation (CCF) , Executive Board Member of China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG), Board Member and Fellow of the Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE) and Senior Member of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI).

Dr. Fuchun Guo is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Computing and Information Technology, University of Wollongong. He received his PhD degree from University of Wollongong Australia in 2013 supervised by Yi Mu and Willy Susilo. His primary research interests are security reduction and research philosophy in modern cryptography. He has published more than 130 research papers in many international journals and conferences, such as CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT, ASIACRYPT, CCS, IEEE TDSC. He authored an influential academic monograph titled Introduction to Security Reduction. He served as a member of the Program Committee for ASIACRYPT 2023, PKC 2025, etc. He is an ARC DECRA Fellow (2017-2019) and an ARC Future Fellow (2023-2026).

Qian Wang is a full professor in School of Cyber Science and Engineering at Wuhan University, China. He was selected into the National High-level Young Talents Program of China, and listed among the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University. He also received the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars of China in 2018. He has long been engaged in the research of cyberspace security, with focus on AI security, data outsourcing security and privacy, wireless systems security, and applied cryptography. He was a recipient of the 2018 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (early career researcher) and the 2016 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award. He has published 200+ papers, with 120+ publications in top-tier international conferences, including USENIX NSDI, ACM CCS, USENIX Security, NDSS, ACM MobiCom, ICML, etc., with 20000+ Google Scholar citations. He is also a co-recipient of 8 Best Paper and Best Student Paper Awards from prestigious conferences, including ICDCS, IEEE ICNP'11, etc. In 2021, his PhD student was selected under Huawei's "Top Minds" Recruitment Program. He serves as Associate Editors for IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) and IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS). He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the ACM.

Qingqing Ye received her PhD degree from Renmin University of China in 2020, and joined the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a Research Assistant Professor since then. In 2022, she was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests include data privacy and security, and adversarial machine learning. She has published a series of flagship conference papers and top-tier journal papers in related areas, including IEEE S&P, SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, INFOCOM, NuerIPS, VLDBJ, TKDE, TMC, TDSC, TIFS, etc. She is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including RGC Early Career Award, IEEE S&P Travel Award, National Scholarship, etc. She serves as a reviewer and TPC member for top-tier journals and conferences, including ICDE, VLDB, ICML, NeurIPS, SIGKDD, AAAI, CCS, TKDE, TDSC, TIFS, TOPS, etc.

Moti Yung is a Distinguished Scientist with Google and an adjunct senior research faculty at Columbia University. 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 ACM, the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), and the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). Among his awards is the IEEE-CS Computer Pioneer Award. He is a fellow of the American Academy for Arts and Sciences.

Tianqing Zhu is currently a professor, an Associate Dean (Research), with the faculty of data science, the City University of Macau. She holds BEng and MEng degrees from Wuhan University, Wuhan, China and a PhD in Computer Science from Deakin University, Australia (2014). Prior to that, she was a Professor at the China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), an Associate Professor with the School of Computer Science at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and a Lecturer with the School of Information Technology, Deakin University, from 2014 to 2018. She has served as associate editors for series of SCI journals, and PC chairs for series of International conferences, such as CCS 2025, IJCAI, AAAI, etc. She has published more than 300 papers and has supervised more than 30 PhD students. Her research interests include cybersecurity, privacy-preserving, and AI security.