RESUME (03.2020) Zheng Yan (D.Sc Tech)

1. Basic Information

Surname: YAN, Given name: ZHENG Date of Birth: 05.1972 Citizenship: China, a permanent resident of Finland orcid.org/0000-0002-9697-2108 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Q0FDt9gAAAAJ&hl=en

Current contacts: Full Professor Finnish Academy Fellow, Visiting Professor PhD supervisor (Network and Cyber Security) Docent (Information and Network Security) State Key Laboratory on Integrated Services Networks Department of Communications and Networking School of Cyber Engineering School of Electrical Engineering Xidian University Aalto University, Otakaari 5, 02150, Espoo, Finland No.2 Taibai South Road, 710071, Xi’an, China Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Mobile: +358 50 4836664 Mobile: +86 18691958048 URL:https://people.aalto.fi/index.html?profilepage=isfor URL: http://web.xidian.edu.cn/yanzheng/ #!zheng_yan

CURRENT POSITIONS 07.2011 – present Full Professor State Key Lab of ISN, School of Cyber Xi’an, China Engineering Xidian University

10.2012 – present Finnish Academy Department of Communications and Networking, Espoo, Finland Fellow; Visiting School of Electrical Engineering Professor; Docent Aalto University

06.2019 – present Adjunct Professor Xi’an Jiaotong University Xi’an, China

EDUCATION AND DEGREES 19.12.2007 Doctor of Science in Helsinki University of Technology Espoo, Finland Technology (Electrical (i.e., Aalto University) Engineering) PhD dissertation: Trust Management for Mobile Computing Platforms http://lib.tkk.fi/Diss/2007/isbn9789512291205/, ISBN 978-951-22-9120-5 Supervisor: Prof. Raimo Kantola

24.01.2005 Licentiate of Science in Helsinki University of Technology Espoo, Finland Technology (Electrical (i.e., Aalto University) Engineering) Major in Networking Technology, Minor in Software Engineering. Passed with distinction. PhL thesis: Methodologies and Mechanisms for Building up a Trusted Mobile Environment Supervisor: Prof. Raimo Kantola

14.06.2000 Master of Engineering National University of Singapore Singapore (Electrical Engineering) Major in Information Security & Electronic Commerce. Thesis: A Smart Card Based Off-line Electronic Cash Payment System with Fair Transactions Supervisor: Prof. Robert H. Deng (IEEE Fellow, Member of Singapore Academy of Engineering)

23.06.1997 Master of Engineering Xi’an Jiaotong University Xi’an, China (Computer Science & Engineering) Major in Computer Science & Engineering. Ranked No. 1 in course studies. Entered the program with examination exemption honour. Thesis: Software Design and Implementation of an Automatic Testing System for Digital Telephone Exchange Supervisor: Prof. Jiayuan Bao

10.07.1994 Bachelor of Engineering Xi’an Jiaotong University Xi’an, China

1/8 (Electrical Engineering) Major in Information Science & Engineering. Overall GPA 3.7/4, graduated cum laude. Entered the program with examination exemption honour.

EXPERIENCES: Previous Positions and Employment 7.2000 – 2.2011 Senior Researcher Nokia Research Center Helsinki, Finland (full time) Project Manager 3.1999 – 7.2000 Component Leader/ Singalab Pte Ltd (IBM partner) Singapore (full time) Software Engineer 8.1997 – 2.1999 Research Scholar Kent Ridge Digital Labs Singapore (full time) 1.1994 – 8.1997 Research Assistant Institute of Computer Information System Xi’an, China Xi'an Jiaotong University 2. Qualifications in Research and Doctoral Training AWARDS, PRIZES & HONOURS • 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 • Eureka Innovation Award to Sigmona, EU (project award) (2019) • Outstanding Associate Editor of 2018 for IEEE Access • IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award at IEEE Blockchain, August 2018, Canada • Associate Editor of the Month for IEEE Access, July 2018 • Academy of Finland Fellowship, 2017 • The 2017 Best Journal Paper Award of IEEE ComSoc TCBD (Technical Committee on Big Data) (one best paper award issued per year) • Outstanding Associate Editor of 2017 for IEEE Access • Outstanding Service Award at SpaCCS2017 • Distinguished Leadership Award at NSS/ICA3PP/IEEE CIT-2017 • EU Eureka Excellence Award - Celtic-Plus Sigmona project (2017) • IEEE Distinguished Leadership Award at IEEE TrustCom/BigDataSE/ISPA2015 • Huashan Talent Young Professor Award of Xidian University (2015 - 2017) • Outstanding Leadership Award at IEEE CIT 2014 • Outstanding Service Award for IEEE RACIT2014 organization • Outstanding Service Award for IEEE DTWSM2014 organization • Outstanding Leadership Award at IEEE HPCC/ICESS/CSS 2014 • The Best Faculty of Xidian University 2013-2014 • Excellent Individual from Abroad in Shaanxi Province, China 2014 • Outstanding Leadership Award at IEEE TrustCom 2013 • Outstanding Leadership Award at IEEE iThings 2012 • Outstanding Service Award at IEEE TrustCom 2012 • “100 Expert Plan” Award of Shaanxi Province, China (2011) • Sisu Award, Nokia Research Center, Helsinki (2010) • Best Organizer Award for special track organization in UIC/ATC2010 (2010) • EU ITEA Bronze Achievement Award - Trust4All project (2008) • Best Student Paper Award at ATC07 (2007) • Research Fellowship Prize of Singapore Science & Technology Bureau (1997 - 1999)

NATURE AND SCOPE OF PUBLICATIONS • Independently wrote a monograph “Trust Management in Mobile Environments – Usable and Autonomic Models”, which summarizes my personal research results in the area of trusted computing and trust management in mobile environments: mobile cloud computing, the mobile Internet, human-computer trust interaction, mobile applications, pervasive social networking, and autonomic and usable trust management. • Independently edited one book “Trust Modeling and Management in Digital Environments: from Social Concept to System Development” with a total of 21 chapters. The book collected recent advances in trust management from both academia and industry. It is one of the earliest books in this area. • Edit more than 30 reputable international journal special issues about blockchain, cloud data security, big data privacy, trust management, mobile multimedia communications, trust & identity, data mining and information fusion in IoT, trustworthy information fusion and data mining, trust in cyber, physical and social computing, 5G technologies, pervasive social networking, security, privacy and trust in the next generation mobile communication networks, etc. • About 30 invited talks at conferences and reputable universities to report research results on trust management, privacy, security and data management (refer to full publication list). • 260+ peer-reviewed scientific and technical publications in the area of trust, security, privacy and data analytics, including 150+ journal articles, 2 solely authored books, 9 conference proceedings, and 13 book chapters. Most

2/8 of journal and conference papers were first or corresponding authored. Many paper articles were published in highly reputable journals and conferences, such as IEEE TII, IEEE TDSC, ACM TOMM, ACM TPCS, IEEE IoT, IEEE TCC, IEEE TBD, IEEE TCSS, JCSS, Information Sciences, Information Fusion, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, etc. (refer to full publication list). • 25 granted patents and 46 PCT patent applications adopted by industry including 28 sole inventions, 17 Chinese patent applications, (refer to full publication list). • A co-author of Nokia’s proposal for DVB-CPCM standard. Several granted patents have been adopted by international standards (e.g., ISO/IEC M3W, TCG, and DVB-CPCM). • Google Scholar H-index is 30, i10-index 113, total citation is over 5000. The highest paper citation in Google Scholar is 700+. Current ResearchGate index is 37.46.

POSITIONS OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERTISE Positions of Trust: Technical committee membership and referee of grants and awards • Referee: National Science Center, Poland, grant reviewer (03.2019) • Referee: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada – discovery grants program (01.2019, 01.2020) • Referee: China National Technology Innovation Prize 2018 (the highest level technical award in China) • Founding steering committee co-chair of IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (IEEE Blockchain) (2017 - date) • Steering committee member of IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (IEEE CIT) (2014 - date) • Steering committee member of International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS) (2016 - date) • NSFC grant referee (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019) • Academic tenure track committee member of School of Telecommunications Engineering, Xidian University (2013 - date) • Academic tenure track committee member of School of Cyber Engineering, Xidian University (2015 - date) • Referee: National “863 projects” of Chinese Scientific and Technology Ministry (2014) • Referee: PhD program grant of Chinese Education Ministry (2012) • Referee: National Science and Technology Innovation Award of China (2014, 2018) • Referee: National Award of Science and Technology of China • Referee: Innovation Foundation of China (Scientific and Technical Ministry of China) • Referee: Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation of Chinese Education Ministry (2013) • Adjunct professor: Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China (12.2012 - date) • Member: IEEE Communications & Information Security Technical Committee (2013 - date) • Senior Member: IEEE (2014 - date) • IET Fellow (18.12.2018 – date)

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES I am serving and served as an area editor or an associate editor for 15 journals, a leading guest editor of over 30 reputable international journals, a founding steering committee chair of IEEE Blockchain, a steering committee member of IEEE CIT and SpaCCS international conferences, a general chair or technical program committee (TPC) chair of 30+ international conferences and workshops, a TPC member of 50+ international conferences, and a reviewer of numerous top journals (e.g., many IEEE/ACM Transactions, journals and letters). I have given about 30 invited talks in international conferences and universities (refer to my publication list). Selected forums below:

Editor & Editorial Board Member • Information Fusion (Elsevier, IF: 10.716), editorial board member (01.2017 - date), area editor on IoT and Sensor, Security & Privacy (05.2019 – date) • IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF: 9.515), associate editor (01.2016 – 12.2017, 01-2020 – 12.2021); • Information Sciences (Elsevier, IF: 5.524), associate editor (09.2016 - date); • Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier, IF: 5.273), editorial board member (2017 - date) • IEEE Access (IF: 4.098), associate editor (01.2016 - date); • Digital Communications Networks, associate editor (01.2020 - date) • IEEE Blockchain Technical Briefs, editorial board member (2018 - date) • Soft Computing (Springer, IF: 2.784), editorial board member (01.2017 - date) • Security and Communication Networks (Wiley) (IF: 1.376), associate editor (10.2014 - date) • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (IF: 0.711), editor (01.2014 – 12.2016) area editor (01.2017 - date) • Chinese Journal of Network and Information Security, editor (01.2016 - date) • Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (Elsevier), associate editor (01.2016 – 12.2018) • Information and Network Security (Chinese), editor (2015 - 2021) • International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing, associate editor (at present) • International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence (IJSSCI), International Advisory Board member (01.2018 – date) • Guest editor: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (IF: 7.377), IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (4.217), IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, ACM Transactions on Multimedia 3/8 Computing, Communications and Applications (IF: 2.25); Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier) (IF: 5.768); IEEE Systems Journal (IEEE) (IF: 4.463); Vehicular Communications (Elsevier) (IF: 3.530), Computers & Security (Elsevier) (IF: 3.062); Mobile Networks and Applications (Springer) (MONET) (IF: 2.390); IET Information Security (IF: 0.949); IJCS: IJISP; etc.

Conference Organization Committee Member (selected) • IEEE TrustCom/BigDataSE/CSE/EUC/iSCI 2020 (vice-program co-chair, special issue co-chair) • IEEE ATC2019 (leading general chair) • IEEE INFOCOM 2019 (session chair - 4F Security in Wireless Networks) • IEEE Blockchain 2018 (leading general chair, steering committee co-chair) • IEEE BigDataSE 2018 (TPC chair) • MobiSec2018 (publication chair) • NSS 2017 (leading TPC chair) • IEEE CIT 2017 (general co-chair) • IEEE ICA3PP 2017 (general co-chair) • SpaCCS 2017 (TPC co-chair) • IEEE RACIT2017 (general co-chair) • EAI MobiMedia 2016 (leading general chair) • IEEE TrustCom 2015 (leading TPC chair, panel co-chair) • IEEE BigDataSE 2015 (general co-chair) • IEEE RATSP 2015 (general co-chair) • IEEE CIT 2014 (leading general chair) • CSS 2014 (TPC chair) • IEEE DTWSM 2014/2015/2016/2017 (program co-chair) • IEEE RACIT 2014 (program chair) • IEEE GBM 2014 (program co-chair) • Cute-2013 (vice program co-chair) • IEEE/IFIP EUC 2013 (workshop co-chair, vice program co-chair) • IEEE/IFIP DMIoT 2013 (program co-chair) • IEEE DASC 2012 (program co-chair) • IEEE iThings 2012 (vice program co-chair) • IEEE iThings/CPSCom/GreenCom 2012 (panel chair) • IEEE TrustCom 2011/2012 (workshop co-chair) • IEEE TrustID 2011/2012/2013 (leading program chair) • IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing • IEEE Computer Society Special Technical Community on Blockchain

Conference Technical Program Committee Member (selected) • IEEE GlobeCom (2012, 2015); MobiSec (2009, 2010); ICSOC (2009 - 2019); ACM MobileHCI (2009, 2010); ACM SAC TRECK (2008 - 2011); IEEE VTC (2011); IEEE WiMob (2010 - 2012); ICA3PP (2010); IEEE CPSCom (2011); ISPEC (2013, 2016); NordSec2017; IEEE DSC2017, IEEE ICCCN (2018); CoCoNet (2018); IFIPTM (2019), SECRYPT (2019, 2020); IEEE Blockchain (2019); IEEE ATC (2019); IEEE ICC 2020; IEEE ICDCS 2020; IEEE INFOCOM 2020; IEEE CNS2020, International Conference on Security and Privacy in Digital Economy (SPDE2020), IEEE DSC2020, etc.

Book Review • Springer, 05.2017, book title: CABology: Value of Cloud, Analytic and Big Data Trio Wave

International Exchange • Personal Research Mobility: Singapore Management University (01-02.2016); University of Technology Sydney (07.2017); Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (07-09.2018); • Short Research Visits: Virginia Tech, US (10.2013); NUTU, Norway (10.2012); Fujian Normal University, China (6.2016); GuangZhou University, China (12.2017); JiNan University, China (12.2017); HUST (10.2010); Renmin University, China (09.2008), etc.; • Invited Prof. Yan Wang (Macquarie University, Australia) to visit Xidian University (12.2011); • Invited IEEE Life Fellow Prof. Stephen S. Yau (Arizona State University, US) to visit Xidian University (05.2012); • Invited Nokia IR directors Mr. Harri Hongasalo (Finland) and Mr. Gordon Huang (US) to visit Xidian (12.2011); • Invited Prof. Valtteri Niemi (Nokia Fellow) (University of Turku, Finland) to visit Xidian University (11.2011, 09.2013, 1-3 times per year during 2014 – 2019); • Invited Prof. Raimo Kantola (Aalto University), Prof. Laurence T. Yang (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada), IEEE Fellow Prof. Wenjing Lou (Virginia Tech, US), Prof. Valtteri Niemi to visit Xidian, based on ‘111’ program sponsored by the Ministry of Education of China and the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs of China (Grant No. B08038) and High-end Foreign Experts Recruitment Program of China (2013); • Invited IEEE Fellow/IET Fellow Prof. Hsiao-Hwa Chen (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan), IEEE Fellow/SCS Fellow Prof. Mohammad S. Obaidat (Monmouth University, USA), IEICE fellow/IPSJ Fellow Prof. Hideko S. Kunii (Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan), Prof. Mohammed Atiquzzaman (University of Oklahoma, USA), Prof. Zhiyong Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Prof. Jinjun Chen (University of Technology Sydney, Australia), Dr. Alvin Chin (Microsoft, China), IEEE Fellow Dr. Chonggang Wang (IntelDigital, USA), Prof. 4/8 Daming Wei (University of Aizu and Tohoku University, Japan), Prof. Christian Prehofer (fortiss, Germany) to visit the State Key Lab of ISN, Xidian University (09.2014); • Invited IEEE Fellow Prof. Witold Pedrycz (Univ. of Alberta, Canada), IEEE Fellow Prof. Thomas Hou (VirginiaTech, US), Prof. Honggang Wang (UMass Dartmouth, US), Prof. Jian Ren (Michigan State Univ., US), Dr. (Anand Prasad) to visit the State Key Lab of ISN, Xidian University (06.2016); • Invited A. Prof. Kai Zeng (George Mason Univ. US) and A. Prof. Rui Zhang (Univ. of Delaware) to visit Xidian (12.2016); • Invited Prof. Valtteri Niemi (University of Helsinki, Finland), Prof. Xiangjian He (University of Technology Sydney), Prof. Mohammed Atiquzaaman (University of Oklahoma) to visit Xidian (06.2017); • Invited IEEE/ACM Fellow, Prof. Elisa Bertino (Purdue University, USA), Prof. Francisco Herrera (University of Granada, Spain), Prof. Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, USA), Prof. Jinjun Chen (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia), Dr. Anand Prasad (NEC, Japan) to offer keynotes at NSS/ICA3PP/IEEE CIT2017; • Invited IEEE Fellow Prof. Robert Deng (Singapore Management University, Singapre), and Prof. Valtteri Niemi (Univ. of Helsinki) to visit Xidian University (12.2017). • Invited IEEE Fellow Prof. Wenjing Lou (Virginia Tech), Yaochao Zhang (ASU), Ming Li (Univ. of Arizona), Yan Wang (UNY), Prof. Raimo Kantola and Prof. Valtteri Niemi, Prof. Riku Jäntti to visit Xidian and give a talk in a workshop on Cyber Security (06.2018, 12.2018). • Invited Prof. Valtteri Niemi, Prof. Mohammed Atiquzaaman (University of Oklahoma), Prof. Robert H. Deng to visit Xidian and give a talk (05-06.2019). Prof. Mohammed Atiquzaaman’s second visit (University of Oklahoma) in 11.2019).

SCOPE AND MANAGEMENT OF EXTERNAL RESEARCH FUNDING AND PROJECTS • Director of the Institute of Trust Management and Trusted Computing, leading the research direction on trust management in Xidian University based on 20+ research grants. Current team includes: 2 professors, 1 adjunct professor, 2 associate professors, 1 assistant professor, 2 post-docs, 2 high-end foreign experts, 12 PhD students, and 21 master students; • Head of the Innovation Center of “Wireless Communication Security”, School of Cyber Engineering, Xidian University, China; • Investigated and lead Academy of Finland Research Fellow project based on Aalto University, Finland (09.2017 – 08.2022), supervising 3 PhD students in Aalto University; • Initiated IEEE International Conference on Blockchain, serving as a steering committee co-chair; • Served as an organization co-chair and organized the joint conference ICA3PP/NSS/CIT2017 in Helsinki, Finland, worked as a general chair of ICA3PP2017, IEEE CIT2017 and a program chair of NSS 2017; • Served as an organization co-chair, successfully organized the joint conference IEEE TrustCom/BigDataSE/ISPA- 2015 in Helsinki, Finland, worked as a leading program chair of IEEE TrustCom2015 and a general co-chair of IEEE BigDataSE2015; • Served as a leading general chair, organized EAI MobiMedia2016, in Xi’an, China, co-sponsored by ACM; • As a leading general chair, successfully organized IEEE CIT2014 conference in Xi’an, China; • Served as a leading program chair for CSS2014, Paris, France; • Leading the research on Internet Trust in Dept. of Comnet, Aalto University; • Led a number of Nokia projects during the 10-year working period in the Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, e.g., human-machine trust interaction, autonomic trust management research, technology exploration on trust- Intelligent device, trust and privacy in mobile commerce, etc.

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH COLLABORATION • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA (01.2018 - date): Cooperation with Prof. Wenjing Lou (IEEE Fellow) and Prof. Thomas Hou (IEEE Fellow) on Blockchain for IoT Data Trust Management, jointly instruct a PhD student based on CSC. • Singapore Management University (09.2009 - 09.2010, 11.2015 - date): Cooperated with Singapore Management University based on Nokia donated project “The Use of Mobile Devices in RFID-based Supply Chain Management”, developed a mobile user data privacy preservation solution for mobile internet services, co-instructed a PhD student and worked out some joint publications. Cooperate with Prof. Robert Deng (IEEE Fellow, member of Singapore Academy of Engineering) (09.2015 - date), co-published a number of top-level journal papers, e.g., in IEEE TDSC, IEEE TBD, Information Sciences, ACM TOMM, etc. • George Mason University, USA (10.2017 - date): Cooperate with Prof. Kai Zeng on Physical Security, jointly instruct a PhD student based on CSC. • University of Alberta, Canada (05.2016 - date): Cooperate with Prof. Witold Pedrycz (Fellow of Canadian Science Society, IEEE Fellow) on data mining and machine learning in the field of reputation generation and network security measurement, jointly instruct a PhD student based on CSC. • St. Francis Xavier University, Canada (01.2014 - date): Cooperate with Prof. Laurence T. Yang (Fellow of Canadian Engineering Society) on data mining, machine learning and big data research in the field of Internet of Things, cloud computing, etc. Jointly publish a number of top-level journal papers and special issues. • Aalto University (05.2009 - date): Cooperate with Prof. Raimo Kantola on unwanted traffic control. Four master students instructed by me have graduated with the highest thesis score and each has 6-8 publications, including a number of high-quality journal papers. One student Yu Chen got full scholarship to join a PhD programme in Human Computer Interaction Group, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, and has become a faculty in USA. • Xi’an Jiaotong University (07.2011 - date): Serving as an adjunct professor, cooperate with the team of Prof. Qinghua Zheng and Prof. Jun Liu to perform research on data mining, intrusion detection and malware detection. 5/8 Co-edited a number of journal special issues and jointed published papers, e.g., in Information Sciences, Information Fusion, ACM TOMM, IEEE Access, JNCA, etc. • University of Helsinki and University of Turku (01.2013 - date): Cooperate with Prof. Valtteri Niemi in the field of cryptography and trust management, 5G security and data privacy, achieved a number of joint publications. Induced Prof. Niemi into Xidian University as a “111 program” member and a national high-end foreign expert. • University of Delaware, USA (09.2017 - date): Cooperate with Prof. Rui Zhang on Verifiable Computation, jointly instruct a PhD student based on CSC. • Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology (07.2009 - date): Cooperated with Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China, acted as the instructor of two PhD students, cooperated several paper publications. Invited to visit HUST in Oct. 2010 and gave a speech on “Building Trust in Mobile Environments”. • Renmin University of China (01.2007 – 12.2008): Acted as a project manager and principle investigator of human- machine trust interaction and led the cooperation between Nokia Research Center (Helsinki) and Renmin University of China. Coordinated the cooperation and knowledge exchange between Nokia security and trust research and Chinese academia (e.g., Tsinghua Univ.). This project explores a user driven trust modeling and management methodology based on a psychometrical method in order to design and develop a usable trust management system, e.g., for mobile applications and services and pervasive social networking. This cooperation worked out a number of joint papers.

COMPETENCE IN APPLYING RESEARCH FUNDINGS Investigated, led and participated in more than 30 research projects, including International cooperation projects, Chinese national key projects, NSFC, Academy of Finland projects, Industry sponsored projects, EU ITEA and Finnish TEKES projects, etc. Selected grants are listed below:

• PI of 5G Heterogeneous Network Security and Privacy with Trustworthy Mobile Terminals, sponsored by Nokia, Finland (02.2020 - 01.2023); • PI of Academy of Finland Research Fellow grant, “Digitalizing Trust for Securing Pervasive Social Networking”, Grant No. 308087 & 314203 (09.2017 - 08.2022); • PI of National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC) project “Security and Privacy in Pervasive Social Networking based on Trust Management”, Grant No. 61672410, (01.2017 - 12.2020); • PI of Security, Trust and Privacy in the Next Generation Mobile Communication Networks and Systems (STP5G), sponsored by Nokia, Finland (02.2017 - 01.2020); • PI of the open grant of the Tactical Data Link Lab of the 20th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, P.R. China, “Data Flow Control in Data Link based on Blockchain”, Grant No. CLDL-20182119, (12.2018 - 11.2020); • PI of open project of the Key Lab of Information Network Security, “Mobile Crowdsourcing Security Architecture in a Trustless Environment”, Grant No. C18614, (9.2018 - 8.2020); • Co-PI of the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2016YFB0800700); project PI of “Large-Scale Heterogeneous Network System Security Data Collection and Composition”, Grant No. 2016YFB0800704, (07.2016 - 06.2019); • PI of the Key Project Supported by Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China, “Mobile App Trust Management based on User Behaviours”, Grant No. 2016ZDJC-06, (2016.01 - 2018.12); • PI of “Trust Management in Pervasive Social Networking”, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Grant No. JBG161509, (01.2017 - 12.2017); • Co-PI of National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Key Project “Composite Security in 5G Mobile Communication Systems”, Grant No. U1536202, (2016.01 - 2019.12); • Co-PI of National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC) project “Delay-Disruption Tolerant Key Distribution and Bundle Authentication with Short Tags in Space-based Networks”, Grant No. 61472308, (01.2015 - 12.2018); • PI of ISN state key lab self-designed project “Cloud Data Security and Privacy based on Trust Management” (11.2015 - 12.2016); • Co-PI of NSFC International Exchange and Cooperation Project “The 14th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology”, Grant No. 61410306013, (09.2014); • PI of K. C. Wong Education Foundation, Hong Kong, (03.2014); • PI of “Trust in Cyber Physical and Social Computing”, sponsored by Nokia, (02.2014 - 01.2017); • PI of “Mobile Application Trust Management based on Trust Behaviors”, PhD Research Fund of Chinese Education Ministry, Grant No. 20130203110006 (01.2014 - 12.2016); • PI of “Usable and Autonomic Trust Management for Software”, Shaanxi Research Grant for Excellent Researchers from Abroad, Shaanxi Province, Grant No. 680F1303, (12.2013); • PI of “Usable and Autonomic Trust Management for Software”, Initial Research Grant for Researchers from Abroad, Chinese Education Ministry, Grant No. 20130203110006, (06.2013); • PI of “Trustworthy Pervasive Social Computing and Services”, sponsored by Nokia, (12.2012 - 11.2013); • PI of the open project grant of the State Key Lab of ISN, Xidian University, Chinese Ministry of Science of Technology (2012 - 2013) (2013 - 2016); • PI of “Trust Management for Mobile Applications”, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, (01.2012 - 12.2013); • PI of “Trust, Security and Privacy in Pervasive Social Networking”, sponsored by Nokia, (11.2011 - 10.2012); • Winner of Initial Research Grand of Xidian University based on the “100 plan” of Shaanxi province, (10.2011 - 07.2016).

6/8 COORDINATION OF DOCTORAL TRAINING OR OTHER PARTICIPATION IN NATIONWIDE DOCTORAL PROGRAMMES • Established a joint international research lab between Aalto University and Xidian University about Next Generation Wireless Communications and Security, which supports the duel PhD degree program between two universities; supervising 2 PhD students towards duel PhD degrees. Sponsored 2 post-doc, 4 PhD students and 3 master students to visit Aalto University for 3m – 2y (2017-2019). • Coordinate international education cooperation and exchange program between Aalto University and Xidian University. From 2019-2022, 3 post-doc, 9 PhD students and 3 faculties will be sponsored to visit Aalto University. • Supported PhD summer school and tutorial based on IEEE TrustCom/BigDataSE/ISPA-2015 and NSS/ICA3PP/IEEE CIT-2017 joint international conferences.

NUMBER OF POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS • Full Professor of the Xidian University, an officially nominated PhD and master supervisor (10.2011 - date): supervised and supervising 5 post-doc candidates, 14 PhD students (2 graduates, 2-3 will graduate in 2020), and 50+ master students (32 graduates), as well as 25 bachelor final year projects (25 graduates); • Academy Research Fellow, Docent and visiting professor of the Aalto University (01.2011 - date): independently instructed 4 master theses with highest scores (4 graduates) and now supervising 4 PhD students (2 will graduate in 2020). On average, each above student published 6 journal or conference papers with high quality. • Adjunct professor of the Xi’an Jiaotong University (06.2019 – 06.2024), jointly supervise 3 PhD students (1 graduate).

POSTGRADUATE SUPERVISION AND TEACHING METHODS • Supervised 25 bachelor theses, 32 master theses and 2 PhD dissertations (2011 - date), most of them got job offers after graduation from universities, big Internet companies, banks, Telecom companies, institutes, etc. • 13 of my postgraduate or PhD students achieved national level scholarships or awards, 8 PhD students got CSC Chinese government scholarships to visit universities abroad. • My philosophy of teaching: Teaching is caring, motivating, opening mind, listening, challenging, supporting, time- consuming, requesting, exploring and innovating.

NUMBER OF SUPERVISED DISSERTATIONS • Supervised 2 PhD dissertations since 2013 (when the first PhD student joined me), both passed with distinction: o Mingjun Wang, Security and Privacy Preservation in Device-to-Device Communications, 12.2017. o Wenxiu Ding, Secure Computations and Deduplication Management over Encrypted Data in Cloud Computing, 12.2017. o 3 PhD students will defend in 2020.

EXPERIENCE AS A DISSERTATION PRE-EXAMINER AND OPPONENT (Selected) • PhD dissertation pre-examiner, “Network Demand Aware Task Offloading in Fog Computing”, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India (2020) • PhD dissertation opponent, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China (12.2016), Wujing Tech Univ. China (12.2018) • PhD dissertation pre-examiner, University of South Australia, Australia (11.2016 - 01.2017) • PhD dissertation pre-examiner, University of Tampere, Finland (08.2016) • PhD dissertation pre-examiner, University of Oulu, Finland (12.2013 - 02.2014) • PhD dissertation opponent, University of Turku, Finland (08.2013) • PhD jury member: Telecom Sud_Paris, UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE - PARIS6, France (03.2010). • Many such activities in China (2011 - date)

3. Teaching Qualifications TEACHING EXPERIENCE • Course master (bachelor level) “Mobile Communications Security and Privacy”, in English, Xidian University (2018/2019 spring) • Course master (bachelor level) “Security in Mobile Communications”, in English, Xidian University (2017 spring) • Course master (master level) “Security and Privacy in Mobile Networks”, in English, Xidian University (2016 spring) • Course developer and runner: “Trust Management”, in English, Xidian University, master and PhD lectures with a self-written English book as below (2015 - date, regular course in every spring semester); So far, this course has produced 11 conference papers and 12 journal papers (published or accepted). - Zheng Yan, “Trust Management in Mobile Environments – Usable and Autonomic Models”, IGI Global, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA, 2013; • Course master and runner: “Mobile Security and Trust”, in English, Xidian University, master and PhD lectures, (2014, 2016); • Course runner: “Routing in Communication Networks” S-38.2121, Aalto University, master level (10-12.2013/2014); • Course developer: “The Basic of Trust Management” in Xidian University, bachelor level (2013); • Tutor: CSE-E5000 Seminar on “Software Systems, Technologies and Security”, Aalto University (Fall 2015); • Tutor of postgraduate seminar on “Network Security” T-110: 5291, Helsinki University of Technology, PhD level (09.2011 - 12.2011, 09.2012 - 12.2012, 09.2013 - 12.2013);

7/8 • PhD student seminar runner: “Trust and Identity”, Helsinki University of Technology, PhD level (02.2011 - 06.2011); • Tutor/Teaching Assistant: Helsinki University of Technology, PhD level (2002 - 2004).

PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING AND OTHET TECHNICAL TRAININGS 09.2012 A! Peda Intro course Aalto University Espoo, Finland 01.2009 Specialist Nokia Research Center Espoo, Finland 05.2007 Selling your idea Nokia Research Center Helsinki, Finland 11.2005 Research project management Nokia Research Center Espoo, Finland Before 2005 J2EE, Network Communications, DB2, Nokia, IBM Finland, Singapore etc.

ABILITY TO PRODUCE TEACHING MATERIALS Two books solely written by me are used in my course “Trust Management”. I am now writing a Chinese textbook about trust management technologies and applications for bachelor education, which will be published in 2020. 1. Zheng Yan, “Trust Management in Mobile Environments – Usable and Autonomic Models”, IGI Global, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA, 2013. ISBN13: 9781466647657, ISBN10: 1466647655, EISBN13: 9781466647664, course textbook adopted by Xidian University and Post-graduate Program in Electrical Engineering by University of Brasilia (UnB) - Brasilia. 2. Zheng Yan (ed.), “Trust Modeling and Management in Digital Environments: from Social Concept to System Development”, IGI Global, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA, 2010. ISBN-10: 1615206825 | ISBN-13: 978-1615206827. course textbook adopted by Xidian University.

OTHER TEACHING MERITS • My general method: All what I do is to build trust with my students. We are friends. We cooperate in a trustworthy way. Thus, we can talk and motivate with each other easily. It becomes natural to mentor them with my personal experiences and lessons. It is easier for them to accept my advices. They trust my view, my professional strength, my kindness and faith. I trust them and believe they will show me their best. I believe trust works in teaching, I enjoy it. • Teaching Awards: - The Best Faculty of Xidian University 2013-2014; - Excellent Individual from Abroad in Shaanxi Province, China 2014. • Feedback of my students (selected) - “I learnt a lot from you how you supervise students: with patience and treating them equally. The results turn out to be very good.” - “I really want to take this opportunity to express my appreciation. That was very important time for me, to decide my initiation for PhD life. Thanks for teaching me knowledge of the field; thanks for bringing me to academia; thanks for providing me consistent care, support and courage! I am feeling happy about life of PhD and the limitless chance for self-development!” - “Seldom, I see a supervisor who is so human-being, concerning my future on my own stand.” - “I am so grateful to have you as my instructor. As a teacher/instructor, you set a good example for us on your working attitude, which I think is very important for us to form a good habit on learning and researching.” - “I like your teaching methods and I would like to support you.” - “Zheng is very patient in instructing my research work. She is so nice to me.”

4. Other Qualifications and Merits KEY COMPETENCE & CHARACTERISTICS • Research project investigation, coordination, management and leadership; • A technical expert in the areas of trust, security, privacy and data analytics; • Scientific and technical instruction and supervision on post-doc, PhD and master students; • Academic leadership for conference organization and journal edition; • Independent research and innovation competence; • Advanced teaching and mentoring skills; • 20+ years R&D experiences in both industry and academy; • High scientific attitude and persistent spirit; • Advanced communication and networking skills; • Work efficiently, good at fully making use of available resources; • Industrial experiences on R&D, software product design and implementation.

PERSONAL FUTURE DEVELOPMENT • Do something interesting and useful, which can really benefit our society; • Educate more excellent students and support them to find good positions in society; • Achieve more top-level publications; • Foster advanced and professional leadership in international academic services and research management.

MISSCELLANEOUS • Hobby: badminton, swimming, reading and yoga; • An easy-going person with open mind and care; Optimistic spirit, persistence, “Sisu” spirit; • A helpful and kind person, very liked and respected by my students.

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