Organizing Committee

Honorary Chairs
•   Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State Univeristy, USA
•   Xin Yao, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
•   Cesare Alippi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Advisory Chairs
•   Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy
•   Hussein Abbass, University of New South Wales, Australia
•   Hong Mei, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Steering Chairs
•   Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
•   Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

General Chairs
•   Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China
•   Yew Soon Ong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Program Chairs
•   Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA
•   Frode Eika Sandnes, HiOA, Norway
•   Ruixuan Li, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Workshop/Special Session Chairs
•   Manuel Roveri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
•   Seiichi Ozawa, Kobe University, Japan
•   Qin Liu, Hunan University, China

Poster and Demo Chairs
•   Constantinos Kolias, George Mason University, USA
•   Tao Peng, Guangzhou University, China
•   Darpan Triboan, De Montfort University, UK

Summit Chair
•   Zhong Chen, Peking University, China

Competition Chair
•   Jerry Gao, San Jose State University, USA

Tutorial Chairs
•   Haibo He, University of Rhode Island, USA
•   Yong Xu, Guangdong University of Technology, China

Industry Session Chairs
•   Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
•   Zengguang Hou, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
•   Chen Yang, China Information Security Research Institute, China

Journal Special Issue Chairs
•   Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
•   Sancheng Peng, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China
•   Georgios Kambourakis, University of the Aegean, Greece
•   Aniello Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy

Publicity Chairs
•   Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
•   Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
•   Chunsheng Zhu, University of British Columbia, Canada
•   Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
•   Xiaokang Wang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

Coordination Chairs
•   Liming Chen, De Montfort University, UK
•   Kevin I-Kai Wang, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

Registration Chairs
•   Xiaofei Xing, Guangzhou University, China
•   Pin Liu, Central South University, China

Web Chair
•   Dacheng Meng, Central South University, China

Local Organizing Committee Chair
•   Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China

Advisory Committee
•   Hussein Abbass, University of New South Wales, Australia
•   Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
•   Yen-Kuang Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
•   Karl K. Chang, Iowa State University, USA
•   Jamal Deen, McMaster University, Canada
•   Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan
•   Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan
•   Jane W. S. Liu, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
•   Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada
•   Mohammad S. Obeidat, Fordham University, USA
•   Kaveh Pahlavan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
•   Michael Pecht, University of Maryland, USA
•   Yuanchun Shi, Tsinghua University, China
•   Fei-Yue Wang, University of Chinese Academy of Science, China
•   Zhaohui Wu, Zhejiang University, China
•   Xin Yao, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Steering Committee
•   Didier El Baz, LAAS-CNRS, France
•   Julien Bourgeois, University Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France
•   Jerry Gao, San Jose State University, USA
•   Sumi Helal, Lancaster University, UK
•   Huansheng Ning, University of Science and Technology of Beijing, China
•   Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy
•   Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA
•   Mazin Yousif, T-Systems International, USA