Advisory Board and Editors Security & Privacy
Rebecca Wright
Rebecca Wright is a professor in the Computer Science Department and Director of DIMACS at Rutgers. Her research spans the area of information security, including cryptography, privacy, foundations of computer security, and fault-tolerant distributed computing, as well as foundations of networking. She is a member of the board of the Computer Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W).
Longzhi Yang
Longzhi Yang is the Director of Education and an Associate Professor (Reader) in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Northumbria University, U.K. He is the founding Chair of the IEEE Special Interest Group on Big Data for Cyber Security and Privacy. His research in the filed of AI, robotics, cyber security, and digital forensics has been supported by multiple research councils, charity organisations, and the industry. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a professional member of British Computer Society, and a Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy of United Kingdom.
Yue Zhang
Yue Zhang is an assistant professor at Drexel University’s Computer Science department. His research primarily focuses on system security, specifically in the areas of IoT Security and mobile security. He has published more than 40 papers in security conferences (e.g., USENIX Security, ACM CCS, and NDSS) and journals (e.g., TDSC, TPDS). He received a Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at ACM CCS 2022, and the Best Paper Award at 2019 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Internet. He has also served on the organization committees of the conferences (e.g., general chair of EAI ICECI, track chair for IEEE MSN and IEEE MASS) and technical program committee of the conferences (e.g., USENIX Security, NDSS, ACM CCS, RAID). He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE T-IFS, HCC and Editor Member of the Blockchain Journal, Electronics Journal, and CMC. His research had led to the discovery of many vendor-acknowledged vulnerabilities, such as by Bluetooth SIG, Apple, Google, and Texas Instruments, and had attracted intense media attention such as Hacker News, and Mirage News.
Huiyu Zhou
Prof. Huiyu (Joe) Zhou received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Radio Technology from Huazhong University of Science and Technology of China and a Master of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from University of Dundee of United Kingdom, respectively. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Vision from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Prof. Zhou currently heads the Applied Algorithms and AI (AAAI) Theme and leads the Biomedical Image Processing Lab at University of Leicester. He was the Director of MSc Programme (2018-19), and currently is the Coordinator of MSc Distance Learning and a Member of Research Committee at School of Informatics. Prior to this appointment, he worked as a Lecturer (2012-17) at the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen's University Belfast.
Prof. Zhou has published widely in the field. He was the recipient of "CVIU 2012 Most Cited Paper Award", "MIUA 2020 Best Paper Award", "ICPRAM 2016 Best Paper Award in the Area of Applications" and was shortlisted for "ICPRAM 2017 Best Student Paper Award" and "MBEC 2006 Nightingale Prize".