Yan Zhang research interests include next-generation wireless networks leading to 6G, green and secure cyber-physical systems. Dr. Zhang is an Editor (or Area Editor, Senior Editor, Associate Editor) for several IEEE transactions/magazine. Since 2018, Prof. Zhang was a recipient of the global “Highly Cited Researcher” Award (Web of Science top 1% most cited worldwide) for five years. He is Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of IET, elected member of Academia Europaea (MAE), elected member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (DKNVS), and elected member of Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA).

Prof. Xu has been a visiting scholar at Pennsylvania State University, University Park (Summer 2005) and a senior visiting fellow at Fudan University (Winter 2009). He serves as a director of the Blockchain and FinTech Lab and leads the Database Research Group at Hong Kong Baptist University. With an H-index of 63, Prof. Xu has published more than 250 refereed articles in top-tier international journals and conference proceedings, such as SIGMOD, VLDB, KDD, ICDE, TKDE, and VLDBJ.He is a senior member of IEEE and CCF, and a member of IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering and CCF Technical Committee on Databases.

Dr. Zhao’s research spans from dependable distributed systems to human centered smart systems. He has delivered more than 10 keynotes, tutorials, public talks and demonstrations in various conferences, industry and academic venues. Dr. Zhao is an associate editor for IEEE Access, MDPI Computers, and PeerJ Computer Science, and a member of the editorial board of several international journals, including Applied System Innovation, Internal Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, and International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies. He is currently an IEEE Senior Member.