Autor: Zibin Zheng

Wuhui Chen (Member, IEEE) received bachelor’s degree from Northeast University, Shenyang, China, in 2008, and master’s and Ph D degrees from the University of Aizu, Aizu–Wakamatsu, Japan, in 2011 and 2014, respectively. From 2014 to 2016, he was a research fellow with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan. From 2016 to 2017, he was a researcher with the University of Aizu. He is currently an associate professor at Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China. His research interests include blockchain system, service computing, and system for machine learning. Zibin Zheng (Fellow, IEEE) is Professor and Deputy Dean of the School of Software Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, China. He published over 200 international journal and conference papers. According to Google Scholar, his papers have more than 26, 000 citations. His research interests include blockchain, software engineering, and services computing. He was a recipient of several awards, including the IEEE TCSVC Rising Star Award, IEEE Open Software Award, Top 50 Influential Papers in Blockchain, the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award of ICSE, and the Best Student Paper Award at ICWS. Huawei Huang (Senior Member, IEEE) earned his Ph D degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Aizu, Japan, in 2016. He is currently an associate professor at Sun Yat-Sen University, China. His research interests include blockchains and distributed computing. He has served as a research fellow of JSPS, a visiting scholar with Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and a program-specific assistant professor with Kyoto University, Japan. He has served as a lead guest editor of a special issue on blockchain at IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC).