Dr. Jing Huey Khor is an Assistant Professor at the University of Southampton Malaysia and a visiting academic at the University of Southampton, UK. She joined the university as a lecturer in 2014 and currently she teaches different subjects that include Digital Systems, Electronic Engineering Design, and Advanced Programming Modules. She has received her BEng degree in Electrical Engineering (Electronic) with First Class Honours from Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) in 2009 and a PhD degree for research on passive Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) security at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) in 2013. She has served as a technical committee member for several international conferences, and as a reviewer of IEEE journals. Starting 2020 she is a visiting researcher at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) under the International Scholar Exchange Fellowship (ISEF) Program of the Chey Institute for Advanced Studies. During her early research career, she has focused on designing lightweight cryptographic protocols for RFID systems. Starting the year of 2016, she has been actively designing privacy preserving protocols for communication between IoT devices and blockchain, designing new consensus algorithms and decentralized application for IoT purposes.

Dr. Michail Sidorov received his B.Sc. in Informatics Engineering from Klaipeda University, B.Sc. in Informatics from Coventry University, M.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Klaipeda University, European Masters in Embedded Computing Systems (EMECS) from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and University of Southampton, UK, and Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering from Toyohashi University of Technology (TUT), Toyohashi, Japan, in 2020. He was a Teaching Fellow at the University of Southampton Malaysia (UoSM), Iskandar Puteri, Malaysia, and worked as a Researcher at TUT. Subsequently, he was an ERCIM Postdoctoral Fellow at NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. He is an Assistant Professor with UoSM. His research interests include sensor design, blockchain, and the IoT. He is a member of IEEE.

Melissa Jia Ying Chong received her MEng degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Heriot-Watt University Malaysia in 2022. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Southampton Malaysia. Her research focuses on UAV communication and networks, routing protocol design for LoRa networks, and IoT.