Claudio A. Ardagna is an associate professor at Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. His research interests include information security and privacy in cloud and IoT, security assurance and compliance, and Big Data analytics. Within the above areas, he has published 130+ contributions in international journals, conference/workshop proceedings, and chapters in international books. He is a co–author of the book "Open Source Systems Security Certification" published by Springer. He has been visiting researcher at Khalifa University and George Mason University. He is a co-founder of Moon-Cloud, a spin-off of the Università degli Studi di Milano providing a platform distributed as a service for security compliance and governance. He is IEEE senior member, received IFIP Silver Core Award, and won the ERCIM STM WG 2009 award for the best PhD thesis on security and trust management in a European University. More information can be found at https://homes.di.unimi.it/ardagna/

Lorenzo grew up on pizza, spaghetti, and Phrack, first. Underground and academic research interests followed shortly thereafter. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Milan (2008), held Post-Doctoral and Visiting Scholar positions at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2010-2011), UC Santa Barbara (2008-2009), and Stony Brook University (2006-2008), and worked in the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London (Assistant Professor, 2012; Associate Professor, 2016; Full Professor, 2018). Lorenzo is now a Full Professor of Computer Science, Chair in Cybersecurity (Systems Security) in the Cybersecurity group of the Department of Informatics at King's College London, where he works at the intersection of program analysis and machine learning for systems security. He received the USENIX WOOT Best Paper Award 2017, and delivers talks & publishes at & sits on the technical program committee of top-tier well-known international conferences, including USENIX Security, ACM CCS, NDSS, USENIX Enigma, WWW, ACSAC, DIMVA, and RAID. He definitely has never stopped wondering and having fun ever since.

Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna: He got his Ph.D in 2015 at the University of Rome Sapienza with a thesis on counting in anonymous dynamic networks. He has been a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Ottawa, working on mobile robots, mobile agents, and population protocols and at the University of Marseille. His main research interests are the design of distributed algorithm for dynamic networks, and for mobile robots and agents. Besides these topics he is also working on machine learning techniques for binary analysis and on security in distributed systems. He authored more than 40 papers published in international conferences and journals.

Riccardo Lazzeretti is an Assistant Professor at Sapienza University of Rome. He graduated at University of Siena in Computer Science Engineering in 2007 and got a PhD at the University of Siena in Infomation Engineering in 2012. He worked as a post-doc at University of Siena from 2010 to 2015. Then he moved at the Mathematics department of University of Padua (2016-2017) and finally joined the Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering Antonio Ruberti of Sapienza university (2017-). Riccardo is member of the Cyber Intelligence and Information Security (CIS) research center in Sapienza and his research interests are mainly focused on privacy preserving applications, with a strong focus on biometrics. Moreover he is involved in other security topics, such as security and privacy in IoT networks, threat intelligence, blockchain-based application for secure and private smarthealth, fake news, etc. He is IEEE senior member and associate editor of Elsevier Journal of Information Security and Applications. He serves in the technical program committee of several security conferences and workshops.

Dr. Francesco Leotta (PhD in Engineering in Computer Science, currently post-doctoral researcher at DIAG) has main research interests in smart environements and cyber-physical systems, including cultural heritage sites. He focuses in particular on the application of machine learning and data mining techniques in such scenarios. During his PhD course, and currently as research fellow, he collaborated to different EU research projects.

Federico Lombardi is a Lecturer at University of Southampton, where he has a Chair in Penetration Testing and Cybersecurity classes for both Bachelor and Master programs, and the CTO of ResearchProof. Federico got his PhD from Sapienza University of Rome with a Thesis about performance, security and dependability of distributed systems and blockchain technologies thanks to which he won an Amazon Research Grant and the Sapienza Minerva Price. His research currently aims to scalability and security of blockchain by investigating and testing consensus algorithms. Furthermore, he works on security and privacy of IoT devices and on their integration with blockchain. He is Co-Investigator of a PETRAS UK project for security of smart (transactive) energy. He has been involved in several National and European projects related to cybersecurity, blockchain and IoT security and is author of over a dozen of papers published in prestigious international journals and conferences.

Ralf Möller is Full Professor for Computer Science and heads the Institute of Information Systems at Universität zu Lübeck (UzL). His main research areas are knowledge representation and data base technologies for developing information systems, machine learning and data mining systems for decision making, as well as probabilistic relational modeling techniques for multi-agent systems. He was Associate Professor for Computer Science at Hamburg University of Technology from 2003 to 2014. From 2001 to 2003 he was Professor at University of Applied Sciences in Wedel/Germany. In 1996 he received the degree Dr. rer. nat. from the University of Hamburg and successfully submitted his Habilitation thesis in 2001 also at the University of Hamburg. Prof. Möller was a co-organizer of several international workshops on description logics and is the author of numerous workshop and conference papers as well as several book and journal contributions. He served as a reviewer for all major journals and conference in the knowledge representation and reasoning area. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems, member of the Editorial Board of the Journal on Big Data Research, as well as Mathematical Reviews/MathSciNet Reviewer.

Dr. Zhijie Ren is a senior researcher at VeChain. He was a postdoc at Delft University of Technology with the research focuses on blockchain consensus algorithms, scalability, and applications. He has several peer-reviewed publications on the topic of blockchain at international conferences. Before that, he received his PhD at Delft University of Technology with his research in network information theory, network coding, and information theoretic security.

Dr. Emmanouil G. Spanakis is a Collaborating Researcher with the Computational Medicine Laboratory (CML) of the Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH-ICS). He is leading the Personal Health Systems and Pervasive Mobile Monitoring and Internet of Medical things R&D activities at the Computational Biomedicine Laboratory. He is also a visiting lecturer at the Computer Science Department, University of Crete. He holds a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in Computer Science and received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 2009 from the University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece. His expertise, specialization and research lies in the wider scientific domain of computational medicine and wireless communication networks, and in particular on biomedical informatics; wireless medical sensors; ambient intelligence and smart surroundings; e-health and m-health related services; as well as in cross-layer design in wireless ad-hoc networks; wireless interference channel under SINR constrains; performance and analysis of mobile ad-hoc routing protocols; and wireless network measurements analysis.

Luca Viganò received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Saarland, Germany, in 1997, and his Habilitation in Computer Science from the University of Freiburg, Germany, in 2003. He is Professor of Computer Science and Head of the Cybersecurity Group at the Department of Informatics of King’s College London, UK. His research focuses on formal methods and tools for the specification, verification, and construction of secure systems, and on the theory and applications of non-classical and security logics. On these topics, he has taught several classes, tutorials, and industrial courses, and has published extensively. He has served as PC-chair and PC-member in over 120 international conferences and workshops, some of which he founded or helped found.