Bong Jun Choi is an associate professor at the School of Computer Science & Engineering and jointly at the School of Electronic Engineering, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea. Previously, he was an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science, State University of New York Korea, Korea, and concurrently a research assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, USA. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Yonsei University, Korea, both in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His current research focuses on distributed artificial intelligence, distributed intelligent energy networks, federated learning, and security. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM.