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. Sungjae Hwang
Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
Bio: Prof. Sungjae Hwang is an
associate professor in the Department of
Computer Science and Engineering at
Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea.
His research focuses on building
trustworthy software and blockchain
systems through automated testing and
empirical analysis. His work on
blockchain security includes smart
contract security, Ethereum node and
consensus algorithm testing, and
blockchain system reliability. More
broadly, his research interests include
software security, software testing and
fuzzing, program analysis, AI security,
and digital forensics. He received his
Ph.D. in Information Security from
KAIST, where he studied security
vulnerabilities in the Android platform.
Before joining SKKU, he worked as a
security researcher at LG Electronics
and the Korea Internet & Security Agency
(KISA). His research has been published
in major software engineering and
security venues, including ICSE, FSE,
ASE, ISSTA, RTSS, WWW, and DFRWS.
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.