Xinbo Gao is President of Xidian University, as well as Professor and Doctoral Supervisor. He previously served as President and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications. His main research interests include computer vision, machine learning, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, and smart cities. Prof. Gao has long been engaged in research on visual information processing, artificial intelligence, and related interdisciplinary fields. He has authored 6 academic books and published approximately 300 papers in international journals and conferences. He serves on the editorial boards of international journals including Signal Processing and Neurocomputing, and has served as General Chair/Co-Chair, Program Committee Chair/Co-Chair, or Program Committee Member at around 30 major international conferences. Prof. Gao is a Fellow of IET/IEE and a Senior Member of IEEE. He also holds leadership roles in several Chinese academic societies, including Council Member of the China Computer Federation, Standing Council Member of the China Society of Image and Graphics, Fellow and Council Member of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, and Senior Member of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence. In addition, he holds important positions in academic organizations such as the IEEE Xi'an Section and the ACM Xi'an Chapter.

Huaxiong Wang is a Professor at the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and President's Chair Professor (Cryptography) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wollongong, Australia, in 2001. He currently serves as Co-Director of the Singapore National Centre for Digital Trust, and also participates in leading work at NTU's Strategic Centre for Research in Privacy-Preserving Technologies and Systems. Professor Wang has long been engaged in research on cryptography and information security, with research interests spanning cryptography, information security, combinatorics, coding theory, and theoretical computer science. His research covers the design and analysis of cryptosystems, privacy-preserving technologies, post-quantum cryptography, security protocols, and their related mathematical foundations, giving him significant international influence in the fields of cryptography and cybersecurity. Professor Wang has published extensively in major international journals and conferences, and has authored and co-authored several academic books on cryptography. He received the inaugural Best Research Contribution Award from the Australian Computer Science Association, was an invited speaker at ASIACRYPT 2017, and served as Program Committee Co-Chair for both ASIACRYPT 2020 and ASIACRYPT 2021. He has long served as an editorial board member of international journals and as a program committee member or chair for international conferences, making significant contributions to the academic community in cryptography and information security.

Yang Xiang is a Professor and Dean of Digital Research at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. He is primarily responsible for advancing the university's digital research strategy, leading research teams through digital transformation and innovation to help industry partners solve real-world problems. He founded Swinburne's Digital Research Innovation Capability Platform, driving the research and development of digital technologies and their translation into real-world applications. Prof. Xiang has long been engaged in research on cyberspace security, with research interests spanning network and system security, data analytics, distributed systems, and networking technologies. Over the past 20 years, he has published more than 300 academic papers in major international journals and conferences. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of SpringerBriefs on Cyber Security Systems and Networks, and as Associate Editor for international journals including IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and ACM Computing Surveys. Prof. Xiang is an IEEE Fellow, and serves as the Asia Coordinator of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Distributed Processing, as well as Chair of the Australia and New Zealand region of the IEEE Blockchain Community. He holds significant academic influence in the fields of cyberspace security, distributed systems, and blockchain research.

Ding Wang is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Nankai University, and a recipient of the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars. He currently serves as Director of the Department of Cryptographic Science and Technology and Secretary of the Faculty Party Branch at the School of Cyber Science and Engineering. He was selected for Peking University's first cohort of "Boya" Postdoctoral Fellows in 2017, Nankai University's "Hundred Young Academic Leaders Training Program" in 2019, the Tianjin Outstanding Young Science and Technology Talent program in 2020, and China's "Blockchain 60" list in 2021. He was named an Elsevier "Highly Cited Chinese Researcher" for two consecutive years (2020 and 2021), and received the "Nomination for Outstanding Young Scientist for a Strong Nation" title in 2022. In recent years, he has led 17 research projects, including a National Key R&D Program project, National Natural Science Foundation of China projects (Excellent Young Scientists Fund, General Program, and Young Scientists Fund), a Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Basic Research Cooperation Special Project, a Tianjin Natural Science Foundation Key Project, and a China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Special Grant. As first author (or corresponding author), he has published more than 80 papers in leading domestic and international venues including IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, USENIX Security, NDSS, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TCC, and ACM TCPS. Among these, 13 papers are ranked in the Top 1% of ESI Highly Cited Papers and 5 in the Top 0.1% of ESI Hot Papers; his work has been cited more than 4,000 times, with an H-index of 32. He serves on the editorial/executive editorial boards of 12 well-known domestic and international SCI/EI journals, including WCMC, IJISP, HCIS, Healthcare, CSA, Computer Science, Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, and Information Countermeasure Technology. He has served as Program Committee Chair for ICICS 2023, SPNCE 2020–2022, CS 2022, FCS 2021, SocialSec 2020, and the 13th National Symposium on Cryptography and Information Security Education, and as Vice Program Committee Chair for the 14th China Conference on Trusted Computing and Information Security (CTCIS 2021). He has also served as a TPC member for more than 30 internationally renowned conferences, including ACM CCS 2022, NDSS 2023, PETS 2023/2022, ACSAC 2020–2022, AsiaCCS 2022 & 2021, SEC 2018–2021, ICICS 2019–2022, and Inscrypt 2018–2022. He has been invited to deliver more than 30 keynote speeches at domestic and international academic conferences, including the Chinese Association for Cryptologic Research Annual Conference (ChinaCrypt 2021), the International Conference on Security Protocols and Applications (PSP 2021), the 2020 China Electronic Authentication Technology Conference (CICA 2020) held by the Chinese Association for Cryptologic Research, the MIT Technology Review 2020 Blockchain and Digital Economy Development Forum, the 11th International Conference on Cyberspace Security (CSS 2019), the 11th China Conference on Computer Networks and Information Security (CCNIS 2018), and the 6th/7th National Network and Information Security Protection Summit (XDef 2016/2017).