​Duc A. Tran is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where he is Director of the Network Computing Laboratory. He has many years of research in the area of decentralized computing, using machine learning and decentralized techniques to optimize applications. His particular interests are Blockchain and Federated Learning. My T. Thai is a UF Research Foundation Professor of Computer & Information Science & Engineering and Associate Director of the Nelms Institute for the Connected World at the University of Florida. She has extensive expertise in billion-scale data mining, machine learning, and optimization, especially for complex graph data with applications to blockchain, social media, critical networking infrastructure, cybersecucurity, and healthcare. Bhaskar Krishnamachari is Professor, Ming Hsieh Faculty Fellow, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering witha joint appointment at the Department of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California. His research interests are in the design and analysis of algorithms, protocols, and applications for next-generation networks and distributed systems including the internet of things, connected vehicles, dispersed computing, and blockchain systems.