Jianying Zhou is a professor and co-center director for iTrust at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). Before joining SUTD, he was a principal scientist and the head of Infocomm Security Department at Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR. He also worked at the headquarters of Oracle as a security consultant.

Prof. Zhou received PhD in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London. His research interests are in applied cryptography and network security, cyber-physical system security, mobile and wireless security. He has published 200+ referred papers at international conferences and journals with 8000+ citations, and received ESORICS'15 best paper award. He has 2 technologies being standardized in ISO/IEC 29192-4 and ISO/IEC 20009-4, respectively. He also has a number of technologies being patented. He has secured 10+ million dollars of research grants as lead PI, and has been managing a number of R&D projects including EU funded project SMEPP-033563, A*STAR funded project SEDS-0721330047, EMA funded project SecSG-EPD090005RFP(D), and NRF funded project SecUTS-NRF2014NCR-NCR001-031, in close collaboration with academic and industrial partners as well as government agencies.

Prof. Zhou is a co-founder & steering committee co-chair of ACNS, which is ranked in top 20 among 150+ cyber security conferences. He is also steering committee chair of ACM AsiaCCS, and steering committee member of Asiacrypt. He has served 200+ times in international cyber security conference committees (ACM CCS & AsiaCCS, IEEE CSF, ESORICS, RAID, ACNS, Asiacrypt, FC, PKC etc.) as general chair, program chair, and PC member. He has also been in the editorial board of top cyber security journals including IEEE Security & Privacy, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TIFS, Computers & Security.

Professor Carsten Maple is Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor at the University of Warwick, charged with leading the strategy in North America. He is also the Principal Investigator of the NCSC-EPSRC Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research at the University and Professor of Cyber Systems Engineering in WMG. He is a co-investigator of the PETRAS National Centre of Excellence for IoT Systems Cybersecurity where he leads on Transport & Mobility. Carsten has an international research reputation and extensive experience of institutional strategy development and interacting with external agencies. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers and is co-author of the UK Security Breach Investigations Report 2010, supported by the Serious Organised Crime Agency and the Police Central e-crime Unit. Carsten is also co-author of Cyberstalking in the UK, a report supported by the Crown Prosecution Service and Network for Surviving Stalking. His research has attracted millions of pounds in funding and has been widely reported through the media. He has given evidence to government committees on issues of anonymity and child safety online. Additionally he has advised executive and non-executive directors of public sector organisations and multibillion pound private organisations.

Professor Maple is Immediate Past Chair of the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing in the UK, a member of the Zenzic Strategic Advisory Board, a member of the IoTSF Executive Steering Board, an executive committee member of the EPSRC RAS Network and a member of the UK Computing Research Committee, the ENISA CarSEC expert group, the Interpol Car Cybercrime Expert group and Europol European Cyber Crime Centre.

Weisi Guo (S07, M11, SM17) received his MEng, MA, and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Cambridge. He recently became Chair Professor of Human Machine Intelligence at Cranfield University, and was an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. He has published over 130 papers and is PI on over £2.3m of research grants from EPSRC, H2020, Royal Society, InnovateUK, and DSTL. His research has won him several international awards (IET Innovation 15, Bell Labs Prize Finalist 14 and Semi-Finalist 16 and 19). He is a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute.