Yuan Zhang is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), and a visiting Ph.D. student at BBCR Lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada. His research interests include applied cryptography, data security, and blockchain technology. He has published more than 20 papers on data security in top journals in the field (e.g. IEEE TIFS, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TII, IEEE TCC, and IEEE TCSS) and prominent conference proceedings (e.g. ICICS, IEEE ICC, ICA3PP). He served as a Technical Program Committee Member for the IEEE Globecom'18 and IEEE ICCC'19.
Chunxiang Xu received her Ph.D. in Cryptography from Xidian University in 2004. She is currently a Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). Her research interests include information security, cloud computing security,and cryptography