Xuemin (Sherman) Shen (M’97–SM’02–F’09) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, in 1990. He is currently a University Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada. His research focuses on network resource management, wireless network security, Internet of Things, 5G and beyond, and vehicular ad hoc and sensor networks. He is a registered Professional Engineer of Ontario, Canada, an Engineering Institute of Canada Fellow, a Canadian Academy of Engineering Fellow, a Royal Society of Canada Fellow, a Chinese Academy of Engineering Foreign Fellow, and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and Communications Society. Dr. Shen received the R.A. Fessenden Award in 2019 from IEEE, Canada, James Evans Avant Garde Award in 2018 from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, Joseph LoCicero Award in 2015 and Education Award in 2017 from the IEEE Communications Society. He has also received the Excellent Graduate Supervision Award in 2006 and Outstanding Performance Award 5 times from the University of Waterloo and the Premier’s Research Excellence Award (PREA) in 2003 from the Province of Ontario, Canada. He served as the Technical Program Committee Chair/Co-Chair for the IEEE Globecom’16, the IEEE Infocom’14, the IEEE VTC’10 Fall, the IEEE Globecom’07, the Symposia Chair for the IEEE ICC’10, the Tutorial Chair for the IEEE VTC’11 Spring, and the Chair for the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Wireless Communications. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL and the Vice President on Publications of the IEEE Communications Society.Xiaodong Lin received the PhD degree in Information Engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, and the PhD degree (with Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies Award) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is currently an associate professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Guelph, Canada. His research interests include computer and network security, computer forensics, privacy protection, applied cryptography, and software security. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. Kuan Zhang (S’13-M'17) has been an assistant professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA, since September 2017. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2016. He was also a postdoctoral fellow with the Broadband Communications Research (BBCR) group, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, from 2016-2017. His research interests include security and privacy for mobile social networks, e-healthcare, cloud/edge computing and Internet-of-Things. Dr. Zhangreceived IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) Award for Excellence - Outstanding Ph.D Thesis in 2017. He was the recipient of Best Paper Award in IEEE WCNC 2013, Securecomm 2016, and BigDataSE 2019.
