Lei Zhang received his Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain. Since then, he has been with Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, as a Postdoctoral Researcher. He is a full Professor with the Software Engineering Institute, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. He has been a holder/co-holder of more than 20 China/Spain-funded (key) projects. His fields of activity are information security, cryptography, VANET security, blockchain, cloud security, data privacy, and network security. He has authored over 90 publications, including: IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE-ACM Transactions on Networking, ESORICS 2014, ASIACRYPT 2011. He is the editors of Future Generation Computer Systems, and, was the Guest Editor of several journals. He has served in the program committee of more than 80 international conferences, in the steering committee of 4 international conferences, and as a technical reviewer for over 80 major scientific journals in information security and privacy.