Yu Yu is currently a research professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research focuses on cryptography with more than 20 publications at flagship conferences such as CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT, ASIACRYPT, CCS, CHES, TCC, CT-RSA, etc. He obtained his BSc from Fudan University in 2003, and then his PhD from Nanyang Technological University in 2006. He worked as a researcher at the ICT security lab of T-Systems from 2006 to 2008, and as a postdoctoral researcher at the UCL Crypto Group (Belgium) during 2008-2010. When back to China, he was employed by East China Normal University (2011-2012) and Tsinghua University (2012-2013). He is a member of the Asiacrypt Steering Committee and an observer on the board of the International Association for Cryptologic Research.

Haojn Zhu received his B.Sc. degree (2002) from Wuhan University (China), his M.Sc.(2005) degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China), both in computer science and the Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo (Canada), in 2009. Since 2017, he has been a full professor with Computer Science department in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His current research interests include network security and privacy enhancing technologies. He published 35 international journal papers, including JSAC, TDSC, TPDS, TMC, TWC, TVT, and 60 international conference papers, including ACM CCS, ACM MOBICOM, ACM MOBIHOC, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICDCS. He received a number of awards including: IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award (2014), Top 100 Most Cited Chinese Papers Published in International Journals (2014), Supervisor of Shanghai Excellent Master Thesis Award (2014), Distinguished Member of the IEEE INFOCOM Technical Program Committee (2015), Outstanding Youth Post Expert Award for Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2014), SMC Young Research Award of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2011). He was a co-recipient of best paper awards of IEEE ICC (2007) and Chinacom (2008) as well as IEEE

GLOBECOM Best Paper Nomination (2014). He received Young Scholar Award of Changjiang Scholar Program by Ministry of Education of P.R. China in 2016.