JongHyup Lee earned his B.S. in Electronic Engineering and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2002, 2004, and 2009, respectively. From 2009 to 2012, he served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at CyLab, Carnegie Mellon University. He was an Assistant Professor of Software at the Korea National University of Transportation from 2012 to 2015. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Mathematical Finance at Gachon University. His research interests include software security, smart contract engineering, decentralized systems, and blockchain technology.