Wang, Guojun
Dr. Guojun Wang is a Pearl River Scholarship Distinguished Professor of Higher Education in Guangdong
Province, a Vice Dean and a Doctoral Supervisor of the School of Computer Science, Guangzhou University,
China. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, at Central South University, China. He received the
2014 First Prize of the National Natural Science Award, State Council of the People's Republic of China. He was
listed in "Chinese Most Cited Researchers" (Computer Science) by Elsevier in the past five consecutive years.
He was formerly a Professor at Central South University, China; an Adjunct Professor at Temple University,
USA; a Visiting Scholar at Florida Atlantic University, USA; a Visiting Researcher at the University of Aizu,
Japan; and a Research Fellow at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK. His research interests include
Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, cloud computing, mobile computing, trustworthy/dependable computing,
cyberspace security, recommendation systems, and mobile healthcare systems. He has published more than 400
technical papers and books/chapters in the above areas. His research is supported by Key Project of the National
Natural Science Foundation of China, the National High-Tech Research and Development Plan of China (863
Plan), and the Ministry of Education Fund for Doctoral Disciplines in Higher Education. He has served as an
associate editor or on the editorial board of several international journals, including IEEE Transactions on
Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Security and Communication Networks (SCN), and International
Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS). He is the Leading Steering Chair of the IEEE
International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), the
Leading Steering Chair of the International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation,
Communication and Storage (SpaCCS), and the Leading Steering Chair of the International Conference on Smart
City and Informatization (iSCI).
Prodan, Radu
Radu Prodan is professor of distributed systems at the Institute of Information Technology (ITEC), University of Klagenfurt, Austria. He was an associate professor at the University of Innsbruck until 2018. His research interests include performance, optimization, and resource management tools for parallel and distributed systems, as well as middleware system tools for cloud, fog, and edge computing. He has participated in numerous projects, including coordinating the Horizon 2020 project ARTICONF. He has coauthored over 200 publications and received three IEEE best paper awards. He is a member of ACM.
Tariq, Muhammad Imran
Dr. Muhammad Imran Tariq is a Professor of Computer Science at Superior University, Lahore, Pakistan. He
received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Superior University. Dr. Tariq has attained the MCSE, MCP+I,
A+, and CCNA certifications. His research interests include Cloud Computing, Information Security standards,
Service Level Agreement, Information Security Metrics, Cloud Risks, and its mitigation techniques, Wireless
Networks Security, Image processing, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Sensor Networks, Multi-Criteria
Decision Making, Fuzzy Logic, and Risk Management. He is the author of two books on Cloud Security and also
the author of three contributed book chapters. Dr. Tariq is Associate Editor of IEEE Access and Member of the
Editorial Board for SCIREA Journal of Computers. Dr. Tariq is also a member of the research group of the Cloud
Security Alliance.