Dr. Jie Wang, Professor and Chair of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA. He received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Boston University in 1990, and an M.S. Degree in Computer Science from Zhongshan University, China, in 1985. He has over 20 years of teaching and research experience. He also has network security consulting experience in financial industry. He represented the University of Massachusetts system in the education taskforce of the Advanced Cyber Security Center sponsored by Mass
Insight. His research interests include network security, big data modelling and applications, algorithms and computational optimization, computational complexity theory, and wireless sensor networks. His research has been funded continuously by the National Science Foundation since 1991, with additional funding by IBM, Intel, and the Natural Science Foundation of China. He is active in professional service, including chairing conference program committees and organizing workshops.

Dr. Zachary A. Kissel, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Merrimack College in North Andover,
Massachusetts, USA. He received his Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science from the University of
Massachusetts Lowell in 2013, and his M.S. Degree in Computer Science from Northeastern University in 2007. He has network security industry experience working in a security group at Sun Microsystems (later Oracle) where he was responsible for maintenance of a firewall and cryptographic libraries. His research interests include cryptography and network security. His work has focused mainly on searchable symmetric encryption and access control to data stored on an untrusted cloud.