Dr. Huiyu Zhou received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Radio Technology from Huazhong University of Science and Technology of China, and a Master of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from University of Dundee of United Kingdom, respectively. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Vision from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Dr. Zhou currently is a full Professor at School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Leicester, United Kingdom. He has published over 450 peer-reviewed papers in the field. He was the recipient of "CVIU 2012 Most Cited Paper Award", “MIUA 2020 Best Paper Award”, “ICPRAM 2016 Best Paper Award” and was nominated for “ICPRAM 2017 Best Student Paper Award” and "MBEC 2006 Nightingale Prize". His research work has been or is being supported by UK EPSRC, ESRC, AHRC, MRC, EU, Royal Society, Leverhulme Trust, Invest NI, Puffin Trust, Alzheimer’s Research UK, Invest NI and industry.

Simon X. Yang (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in engineering physics from Beijing University, Beijing, China, in 1987, the M.Sc. degree in biophysics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, in 1990, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA, in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, in 1999.,He is currently a Professor and the Head of the Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada. He has been very active in professional activities. His research interests include robotics, intelligent systems, sensors and multisensor fusion, wireless sensor networks, control systems, machine learning, fuzzy systems, and computational neuroscience.

Hui Li is a Professor of Peking University、Chief Information Scientist of IASTIC（International Academician Science & Technology Innovation Center); Foreign Academician of Russia Academy of Natural Science、Member of Expert Committee of World Digital Tech. Academy under guidance of UN Commission on Sci.&Tech. for Developments、Fellow of IET、Senior  Member of IEEE & China CCF. He received his B.Eng. and M.S. degrees  from School of Information Eng., Tsinghua University, Beijing, China,  in 1986 and 1989 respectively, and Ph.D. degree from Dept. of  Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2000. He  was Director of Shenzhen Key Lab of Information theory & Future  Internet architecture, Director of PKU Lab of CENI (China Environment  for Network Innovations), National Major Research Infrastructure. He proposed the first  co-governing future network arch. ‘MIN’based on blockchain technology  and implemented its prototype on Operator’s Network in the world，and  MIN was obtained the award of World Leading Internet Scientific and  Technological Achievements by the 6th World Internet Conference on 2019,  WuZhen, China. His research interests include network architecture, cyberspace security, blockchain，distributed  storage. As the first author, He has published four Monographs with  field on Future network architecture, Consensus Algorithms on  Blockchain, Distributed storage theory and system.

Associate Professor, Gunma University, Japan.

Md Abdus Samad KAMAL got his master and doctor degrees from Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Systems Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan in 2003 and 2006 respectively. And then he served as a researcher in Department of Electrical and Electronics Systems Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan. From 2019, he starts working in Division of Mechanical Science and Technology, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Gunma University, Japan as an associate professor. Now, he is a member of Chartered Engineer (C.Eng.), IET, UK, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In addition, he undertakes editors, gust editors for international journals, and has delivered keynote speeches for more than 15 conferences.