Yingjiu Li obtained his PhD degree in Information Technology with a focus on Cybersecurity from George Mason University in 2003. His main research interests include IoT Security and Privacy, Mobile and System Security, Applied Cryptography and Cloud Security, and Data Application Security and Privacy. He has published more than 130 papers in Cybersecurity research, and co-authored two academic books on leakage resistant password systems (Springer 2015) and on RFID security and privacy (Morgan & Claypool 2013). He has served in the technical program committees for over 80 international conferences and workshops in his career.