Usman Anjum is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Cincinnati. He holds a Bachelor’s in Electronics Engineering from the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, a Master’s in Telecommunications from the University of Maryland, and a Ph.D. in Information Sciences from the University of Pittsburgh. He has worked as a research associate at the University of Fayetteville Arkansas. Currently, he is working as a research associate at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship. He has also worked as an Executive Engineer at Siemens AG (2004–2008), an Executive Engineer at the Rohde und Schwarz GmbH und Co KG (2008–2009), a Research Assistant at the University of Maryland (2010), a Business Development Manager at the Novateur Pvt Ltd. (2012–2014), and a Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant at the University of Pittsburgh (2014–2021). His main area of expertise is in the fields of data science, machine/deep learning, and telecommunication.

Justin Zhan is the Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Cincinnati. He is also Fred A. & Juliet Esselborn Geier Chair Professor. His research interests include data science, artificial intelligence, blockchain technologies, biomedical informatics, information assurance, and social computing. He was a steering chair of the IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom), IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT), and IEEE International Conference on BioMedical Computing (BioMedCom). He has been involved in more than 60 projects as a principal investigator (PI) or a Co-PI, which were funded by the National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, National Institute of Health, etc.