Steven Guan received his M.Sc. & Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is currently a professor in the computer science and software engineering department at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU). Before joining XJTLU, he was a tenured professor and chair in intelligent systems at Brunel University, UK. Prof. Guan has worked in a prestigious R&D organization for several years, serving as a design engineer, project leader, and department manager. After leaving the industry, he joined Yuan-Ze University in Taiwan for three and half years. He served as deputy director for the Computing Center and the chairman for the Department of Information & Communication Technology. Later he joined the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at National University of Singapore as an associate professor. Prof. Guan’s research interests include: machine learning, mobile commerce, security, networking, and random number generation. He has published extensively in these areas, with 110+ journal papers and 160+ book chapters or conference papers. He has served in 120 international conference committees and various editorial boards.