Dr. Leandros A. Maglaras is a professor of cybersecurity in the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University. From September 2017 to November 2019, he was the Director of the National Cyber Security Authority of Greece. He obtained a B.Sc. (M.Sc. equivalent) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1998, M.Sc. in Industrial Production and Management from the University of Thessaly in 2004, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Thessaly, in 2008 and 2014 respectively. In 2018 he was awarded a Ph.D. in Intrusion Detection in SCADA systems from the University of Huddersfield He is featured in Stanford University's list of the world’s Top 2% scientists. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and is an author of more than 200 papers in scientific magazines and conferences.

Dr. Wenbing Zhao is a Full Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Cleveland State University, Ohio, USA. He serves as an Associate Editor of Computers (MDPI). He is also an Associate Editor of IEEE Access, an Academic Editor of PeerJ Computer Science, and serves on the editorial boards of Sensors (MDPI), International Journal of Parallel Emergent and Distributed Systems, and Applied System Innovation (MDPI). His research interests include blockchain consensus and applications, smart and connected healthcare, computer vision-based motion tracking, distributed computing, and computer security. He has published over 240 peer-reviewed papers, three research monographs, and holds two US patents, including one as sole inventor on the PACTS technology. He is a recipient of the CSU Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award and a senior member of IEEE.

For over 40 years, Prof. Frank Werner has studied exact and approximate solutions to diverse scheduling problems. Starting around 1980 with genetic algorithms for flow shop scheduling, his research also involves computational complexity, uncertain scheduling, train scheduling and graph theory. He has taken part in research projects supported by DFG, INTAS and the Belarusian Republican Foundation for Fundamental Research. His publications include 2 math textbooks, 17 compiled/edited books, and over 300 journal papers.

Prof. Stefano Mariani is currently a Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Politecnico di Milano. He received his MSc degree with Honours in Civil (Structural) Engineering in 1995, and his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering in 1999, both at the Politecnico di Milano. His research interests include reliability analysis of MEMS, micromechanics of composite materials, machine and deep learning tools for health monitoring, optimal placement of sensing systems, and Kalman and particle filtering. He has co-authored around 100 peer-reviewed journal publications and one book on the mechanics of microsystems.

Rui Zhang is a Professor at the Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and affiliated with the School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on data security, applied cryptography, cloud security, and blockchain technologies. He has published many research papers and received multiple research and teaching awards.