Prof. Jiankun Hu

IEEE Fellow

The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia

Jiankun Hu is an IEEE Fellow, and a full professor of Cyber Security at the School of Engineering and Information Technology, the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy (UNSW@ADFA), Australia. His major research interest is in computer networking and computer security, especially biometric security. He has been awarded ten Australia Research Council Grants. He served as Security Symposium Co-Chair for IEEE GLOBECOM ’08 and IEEE ICC ’09.  He was Program Co-Chair of the 2008 International Symposium on Computer Science and its Applications. He is serving as an Associate Editor of the following journals: Journal of Security and Communication Networks, Wiley;  IEEE TIFS (Senior Area Editor); KSII TIIS (Area Editor); IET CPS; IEEE OJCS; and Wiley S&P. 

Prof. Lei Zhang

Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China

Lei Zhang is a full-time professor at the Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST). He obtained his PhD degree in Natural Science (Physics) from Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Prior to this, he received his MSc in Composite Materials from Imperial College London. His research interests include materials informatics, photovoltaic materials and computational materials science. He is focusing on the development and application of data-driven and AI methods (e.g., machine learning, natural language processing, genetic algorithm, image recognition, high-throughput DFT calculation and data mining) combined with first-principles calculations to predict and understand new functional materials such as phovoltaic materials and beyond. He has published over 130 academic papers (more than 90 as first author or corresponding author in SCI journals). He holds 5 authorized national invention patents, with an H-index of 28 and over 3200 citations (highest citation > 800 times). He is listed in Stanford's "2023 Global Top 2% Scientists". He has received funding from National Natural Science Foundation, Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation, and the Nanjing Outstanding Returnees Program. He has refereed papers from journals like Nat. Mater., Nat. Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Adv. Mater., and is in the editorial board for journals like J. Mater. Inf. and CMC-Comput. Mater. Con.