Muhammad Shafiq, IEEE Senior Member, received the Ph.D. degree at the School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2018. He completed his Post doctorate in 2020 at Cyberspace Institute of Advanced Technology, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China. He is currently Distinguished Associate Professor at the Cyberspace Institute of Advance Technology, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China. He is Associate Editor at Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Journal. He has guest editor in several Special Issues in reported SCI journals. He has invited speaker in well-known conferences. He is a member of several well-known conferences (CP, PC and TPC member). His current research areas of interest include IoT Security, IoT anomaly and intrusion traffic classification, IoT management, Network Traffic Classification, Cloud Computing and Network Security. He has authored more than over 50 peer-reviewed articles on topics related to cybersecurity. He has received multiple awards for Academic Excellence and University Contribution. He is the reviewer of many prominent journals, including, IEEE Transaction on Network Science and Engineering, Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, IEEE Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing, IEEE Transaction on Service Computing, IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Internet of Things, IEEE Access, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley), Journal of Parallel and Distributing Computing. In 2020, he received Certificate of Appreciation from Journal Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience by Wiley.

Prof. Ding Wang, a doctoral supervisor, is the head of the Department of Cryptographic Science and Technologyand the head of Cryptographic Science and Technology. He also works as the deputy director of the Tianjin Key Laboratory of Network and Data Security Technology, an expert of the Working Group for the Promotion of Cryptographic Application Standards of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, a member of the Special Committee on Security Protocols of the Chinese Cryptographic Society, a member of the Committee on Computer Security of the Chinese Computer Society, and a member of the Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Security of the Chinese Artificial Intelligence Society. His research includes several areas such as cryptography and information security.In recent years, he has chaired more than 10 projects such as the National Key Research and Development Program, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, a social research project of a national ministry, equipment pre-research projects, and special grants of the China Postdoctoral Fund.He has published more than 60 papers in IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, USENIX Security, NDSS and IEEE TDSC, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TCC, ACM TCPS and other domestic and international journals as the first author (or corresponding author). Among them, 9 papers have been selected as Top 1% ESI Highly Cited Papersand 4 have been selected as Top 0.1% ESI Hot Papers, with more than 3700 citations and H-index of 29. He serves as an editorial board member/executive editorial board member of WCMC, IJISP, HCIS, CSA, Computer Science, Journal of Electronics&Information and 9 other well-known domestic and international journals, Program Committee Chair (PC Chair) of SPNCE 2020/2021, FCS 2021 and SocialSec 2020, 14th China Trusted Computing and Information Security Program Committee (PC Chair) of SPNCE 2020/2021, FCS 2021 and SocialSec 2020, Vice Chair of the Program Committee of the 14th China Conference on Trustworthy Computing and Information Security (CTCIS 2021), TPC member of more than 30 international conferences such as ACM CCS 2022, PETS 2022, AsiaCCS 2022&2021, ACSAC 2021&2020, SEC 2018-2021, ICICS 2019-2022, INSCRYPT 2018-2020.He has been invited to give more than 30 invited presentations as the Keynote Speakeratseveral conferences including the Annual Conference of the Chinese Cryptological Society 2021 (ChinaCrypt 2021), the International Conference on Advances in Security Protocols (PSP 2021), the Chinese Cryptological Society (CICA 2020), MIT Technology Review 2020 Blockchain and Digital Economy Development Forum, 11th International Conference on Cyberspace Security (CSS 2019), 11th China Computer Network and Information Security Academic Conference (CCNIS 2018), 6th/7th National Network and Information Security Protection Summit (XDef 2016/2017) and other academic conferences at home and abroad. He currently chairs the National Key Research and Development Program in Cryptography and Information Security (2021-2023), the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Basic Research Cooperation Special Project (general manager, 2022-2024), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (2022-2025), and the Tianjin Natural Science Foundation Key Project (2022-2024).

Neeraj Kumar received his Ph.D. in CSE from SMVD University, Katra (J & K), India, and was a postdoctoral research fellow in Coventry University, Coventry, UK. He is working as a Full Professor in Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala (Pb.), India. Dr. Neeraj is an internationally renowned researcher in the areas of VANET & CPS Smart Grid & IoT Mobile Cloud computing & Big Data and Cryptography. He has published more than 150 technical research papers in leading journals and conferences from IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, John Wiley, and Taylor and Francis. His paper has been published in some of the high impact factors journals such as IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE IoT Journal, IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine, IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, IEEE Communication Magazine, IEEE Networks Magazine etc. Apart from the journals conferences, he has also published papers in some of the core conferences of his area of specialization such as-IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, IEEE Greencom, IEEE CSCWD. He has guided many research scholars leading to Ph.D. and M.E./M.Tech. His research is supported by funding from TCS, CSIT, UGC and UGC in the area of Smart grid, energy management, VANETs, and Cloud computing. He is member of the Cyber-Physical Systems and Security (CPSS) research group. He has research funding from DST, CSIR, UGC, and TCS. He has total research funding from these agencies of more than 2 Crores under different schemes from the GOI. Recently, he has also got International research projects under DST-research initiative. He has h-index of 95. He is editorial board members of International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley, Security and Communication, John Wiley, and Journal of Networks and Computer Applications, Elsevier. He has visited many countries mainly for the academic purposes. He is a visiting research fellow at Coventry University, Coventry, UK. He has many research collaborations with premier institutions in India and different universities across the globe. He has been engaged in different academic activities inside and outside the Institute. He has supervised 5 Ph.D. students and 5 are currently pursuing their thesis. He has also supervised more than 20 M.E./M.Tech. thesis. He is Senior Member of IEEE.

Anjali Munde is working as an Associate Professor at Amity University Uttar Pradesh. Her research areas are Machine Learning Algorithms, Marketing Analytics, Finance and Risk Analytics, Digital marketing, Information Theory, Fuzzy sets, Fuzzy Information Measures, Decision Making, Coding Theory, Software Reliability, Bug Prediction. She is a Gold Medalist from Hans Raj College, Delhi University, Ranking Third in Delhi University, India and a Ph.D. Guide supervising four Research Scholars. She has published 15 Research Papers which are indexed in Scopus, Scopus(Elsevier), IEEE, Web of Science, Springer and serves as a Reviewer/ Editorial board member in various National/ International Journals. Besides, Prof. Munde has presented 16 technical papers in National and International Conferences, authored one book entitled, "Decision Making Using Fuzzy Measures and Applications in Coding Theory", and obtained Certificate in Data Science and Business Analytics Program from Great Learning that includes: Data Science Tools: Python, Tableau (For Visualization), SQL(Structured Query Language). Algorithms: Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, CART, CHAID, Random Forest, ANN, Clustering Statistical Skills: ANOVA, PCA, Hypothesis Testing. Skill Summary:Has experience with Machine Learning algorithms including different machine learning techniques such as Supervised and Unsupervised learning. Data Mining and Predictive Modelling including Regression- Linear Regression, Logistic Regression. Classification- Naïve Bayes Algorithm, KNN algorithm and Decision Tree. Advanced Statistics including Principal Component Analysis. Data preparation for predictive modelling projects including outlier treatment, Missing imputations, co-linearity etc. Guiding in preparation of dashboard & Reports using Tableau.