Prof. Kazumasa Omote
University of Tsukuba, Japan
Bio: Kazumasa Omote received the
Ph.D. degree in information science from
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology (JAIST), in 2002. He was with
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., from 2002 to
2008, and was engaged in research and
development for network security. He was
a Research Assistant Professor with
JAIST, from 2008 to 2011; an Associate
Professor with JAIST, from 2011 to 2016;
and an Associate Professor with the
University of Tsukuba, from 2016 to
2022. He has been a Professor with the
University of Tsukuba, since 2022. His
research interests include applied
cryptography, network security, and
blockchain security. He received the
WISTP 2019 Best Paper Award. He was the
General Co-Chair of the ACNS 2023
International Conference.
Prof. Hyoungshick Kim
Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
Bio: Prof. Hyoungshick Kim is a
professor in the Department of Computer
Science and Engineering, College of
Computing, Sungkyunkwan University
(SKKU), Korea, where he leads the
Security Laboratory (seclab). He has
been selected as an SKKU Fellow in
recognition of his research
contributions and academic engagement.
His current research interests include
usable security, blockchain security,
security vulnerability analysis,
software security, user authentication,
and data-driven security. He received
his Ph.D. from the Computer Laboratory
at the University of Cambridge, under
the supervision of Prof. Ross Anderson,
with a thesis on complex network
analysis for secure and robust
communications. Before joining SKKU,
Prof. Kim worked as a postdoctoral
fellow at the Laboratory for Education
and Research in Secure Systems
Engineering (LERSSE) at the University
of British Columbia. He also served as a
distinguished visiting researcher at
CSIRO Data61 and previously worked at
Samsung Electronics on secure home
networking, DRM, and content protection
technologies. Prof. Kim has actively
contributed to the security research
community through publications in major
venues and service on program committees
and editorial boards. His research
bridges practical security problems and
human-centered security design, with
applications in authentication, privacy,
blockchain, AI security, and software
security.
Prof. Gyu Myoung Lee
Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Bio: Gyu Myoung Lee is a
professor at the Liverpool John Moores
University (LJMU), UK. He was affiliated
with KAIST, Daejeon, Rep. of Korea, as
an Adjunct Professor from 2012 to 2024.
Before joining the LJMU in 2014, he
worked at the Institut Mines-Telecom
from 2008. Until 2012, he was invited to
work at ETRI, Rep. of Korea. He worked
as a research professor at KAIST, Rep.
of Korea and as a guest researcher at
NIST, USA, in 2007. His research
interests include Internet of Things,
digital twin, computational trust,
blockchain with privacy preservation,
data and AI governance, knowledge
centric networking and services
considering all vertical services, Smart
Grid, energy saving networks,
cloud-based big data analytics platform
and multimedia networking and services.
Prof. Lee has been actively
participating in standardization
meetings including ITU-T SG 13 and SG20,
IETF and oneM2M, etc., and currently
serves as a Working Party chair and the
Rapporteur of Q16/13 on trustworthy
networking and services and Q4/20 on
data analytics, sharing, processing and
management in ITU-T. He is the
Vice-Chair of ITU-T FG-AINN as well as
the Convenor of Web3-adhoc. He was also
the chair of ITU-T Focus Group on Data
Processing and Management (FG-DPM). He
has contributed more than 500 proposals
for standards and published more than
200 papers in academic journals and
conferences. He received several Best
Paper Awards in international and
domestic conferences and served as a
reviewer of IEEE journals/conference
papers and an organizer/member of
committee of international conferences.
He is a Senior Member of IEEE.