Zheng Yan received the B. Eng in electrical engineering and M. Eng in computer science and engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1994 and 1997. She received a second M. Eng in information security from National University of Singapore in 2000. She received the Licentiate of Science and the Doctor of Science in Technology in electrical engineering from Helsinki University of Technology in 2005 and 2007. She is currently a full professor at the Xidian University, Xi'an, China and a visiting professor/Finnish academy research fellow/docent in Aalto University, Finland. She joined the Nokia Research Center, Helsinki in 2000, working as a senior researcher until 2011. Before Nokia, she worked as a research scholar at the Institute for Information Research from 1997 to 1999 and a software engineer at the IBM partner SingaLab from 1999 to 2000, Singapore. She authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications including over 180 journal articles and solely authored 2 books. She is the inventor of 100+ patents and PCT patent applications, 87 of which were adopted by industry. Her research interests are in trust, security, privacy, and data analytics. Prof. Yan serves as a steering or organizational committee member for more than 40 conferences and and a technical committee member for more than 50 international conferences and workshops, e.g., IEEE Infocom, IEEE ICDCS, IEEE GlobeCom, IEEE ICC, ICSOC, ACM MobileHCI, ACM SAC, etc. She is a steering committee co-chair of IEEE Blockchain conference. She is an area editor of Information Fusion, an associate editor of IEEE IoT Journal, IEEE Network, Information Sciences, JNCA, IEEE Access, Security and Communication Networks (Wiley), Soft Computing, etc., a special issue guest editor of more than 30 journals, such as IEEE TII, IEEE JBHI, ACM TOMM, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE TNSE, Future Generation Computer Systems, Computers & Security, VehCom, IJCS and ACM/Springer MONET, and acts as a reviewer for many top journals. She is the organizer of IFIP Networking 2021, IEEE ATC2019, IEEE Blockchain 2018, IEEE BigDataSE2018, IEEE CIT2017, ICA3PP2017, NSS2017, IEEE TrustCom/BigDataSE/ISPA-2015, EAI MobiMedia2016, IEEE CIT2014, CSS2014, and IEEE iThings 2012 security track, etc.. She is a fellow of IET and a senior member of IEEE. (For details, please refer to her personal website)

Her recent awards are:

• Elsevier 2020 highly cited Chinese researcher
• Aalto ELEC Impact Award 2020, Aalto University (for patented inventions with practical use)
• Distinguished Distinguished Inventor of Nokia 2020 (for significant technology contributions to Nokia’s IPR portfolio in the field of trustworthy networking and communications)
• Education Award of Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group (second level), 2021
• The Best Paper Award, SpaCCS2019, Atlanta, USA (184 submissions with 20.1% acceptance rate)
• IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award at IEEE SmartWorld Congress, August 2019, UK
• The Best Faculty of Xidian University 2018-2019
• Associate Editor of the Month for IEEE Access, July 2018
• IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award at IEEE Blockchain 2018
• Outstanding Associate Editor of 2017/2018 for IEEE Access
• The 2017 IEEE ComSoc TCBD Best Journal Paper Award
• EU Eureka Excellence Award - Celtic-Plu)s Sigmona project (2017)
• Distinguished Leadership Award at NSS/ICA3PP/IEEE CIT-2017 (general chair and program chair)
• IEEE Distinguished Leadership Award at IEEE TrustCom/BigDataSE/ISPA-2015 (general chair and program chair)
• Outstanding Leadership Award at IEEE CIT 2014 (general chair)
• Outstanding Leadership Award at CSS 2014 (program chair)
• The Excellent Faculty of Xidan University 2014
• The Excellent Individual from Abroad of Shaanxi Province 2014
• Outstanding Leadership Award at IEEE TrustCom 2013
• Outstanding Leadership Award at IEEE iThings 2012
• Outstanding Service Award at IEEE TrustCom 2012
• Outstanding Service Award at IEEE TrustID 2012
• “100 Expert Plan” award of Shaanxi Province, specially recruited expert of Shaanxi Province, China (2011)
• SisuAward, Nokia Research Center, Helsinki (2010)
• Best Organizer Award for special track organization in UIC/ATC2010 (2010)
• EU ITEA Bronze Achievement Award (2008)
• Excellent Paper Award at ATC 2007 (2007)

(Some of recent publications are listed below. Details will be edited soon.)