Blockchains: A Handbook on Fundamentals, Platforms and Applications

Sushmita Ruj is Senior Lecturer at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW, Sydney. She is also affiliated with UNSW Institute for Cyber Security (IFCYBER). Her research interests are in applied cryptography, blockchains, cybersecurity and data privacy. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and delivered over 90 technical lectures around the world. Before joining UNSW, she was a Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO's Data61, an Associate Professor at Indian Statistical Institute and an Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, IIT, Indore. She worked at Lund University Sweden and University of Ottawa, Canada. She was a visiting researcher/faculty at NTU, Singapore, KDDI R&D Labs, Japan, INRIA, France, Kyushu University, Japan and intern at Microsoft Research Labs, India. She was a member of the "Blockchain For Cybersecurity" working group of the National Blockchain Roadmap of Australia and the Blockchain working group founded by the Reserve Bankof India. Sushmita serves on the Editorial board of Elsevier Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA) and Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC). She served as a Program Co-Chair for ACISP 2021 and Indocrypt 2019. She won best paper awards at ISPA 2007, IEEE PIMRC 2011 and IEEE ANTS 17. She received Samsung GRO award, NetApp Faculty Fellowship, Cisco University Research Grant, grant from IBM Research and lead a Cybersecurity Cooperative Research Centre (CSCRC) project which is a NSW iAWARD'22 Merit Winner. Sushmita is a Senior member of ACM and IEEE. She received her B.E. degree from Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, India and master's and Ph.D. from Indian Statistical Institute, India, all in Computer Science.
Salil Kanhere is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW Sydney. He is also affiliated with CISRO's Data61, the Cybersecurity Cooperative Research Centre (CSCRC) and the UNSW Institute forCyber Security (IFCYBER). His research interests span the Internet of Things, cyberphyiscal systems, cybersecurity, blockchain and machine learning. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and is leading several government and industry funded research projects on these topics. He received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award (2020) and the Humboldt Research Fellowship (2014), both from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and ACM, an ACM Distinguished Speaker and an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor. He has held visiting positions at I2R Singapore, Technical University Darmstadt, University of Zurich and Graz University of Technology. He serves as the Editor in Chief of the Ad Hoc Networks journal and as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions On Network and Service Management, Computer Communications, and Pervasive and Mobile Computing. He regularly serves on the organising committee of several IEEE/ACM international conferences. Salil co-authored a book titled Blockchain for Cyberphysical Systems published by Artech House in 2020.
Mauro Conti is Full Professor at the University of Padua, Italy. He is also affiliated with TU Delft and University of Washington, Seattle. He obtained his Ph.D. from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, in 2009. After his Ph.D., he was a Post-Doc Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In 2011 he joined as Assistant Professor at the University of Padua, where he became Associate Professor in 2015, and Full Professor in 2018. He has been Visiting Researcher at GMU, UCLA, UCI, TU Darmstadt, UF, and FIU. He has been awarded with a Marie Curie Fellowship (2012) by the European Commission, and with a Fellowship by the German DAAD (2013). His research is also funded by companies, including Cisco, Intel, and Huawei. His main research interest is in the area of Security and Privacy. In this area, he published more than 550 papers in topmost international peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He is Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Area Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, and has been Associate Editor for several journals, including IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, and IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. He was Program Chair for TRUST 2015, ICISS 2016, WiSec 2017, ACNS 2020, CANS 2021, CSS 2021, WiMob 2023 and ESORICS 2023, and General Chair for SecureComm 2012, SACMAT 2013, NSS 2021 and ACNS 2022. He is Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the AAIA, Senior Member of the ACM, and Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe.

Sushmita Ruj是澳洲新南威爾斯大學（UNSW Sydney）計算機科學與工程學院的高級講師。她還隸屬於UNSW網絡安全研究所（IFCYBER）。她的研究興趣包括應用密碼學、區塊鏈、網絡安全和數據隱私。她發表了100多篇同行評審的文章，並在世界各地發表了90多場技術講座。在加入UNSW之前，她曾是澳洲CSIRO的Data61高級研究科學家，印度統計研究所的副教授，以及印度印度理工學院（IIT）Indore的助理教授。她曾在瑞典隆德大學和加拿大渥太華大學工作。她曾是新加坡NTU、日本KDDI R＆D實驗室、法國INRIA、日本九州大學的訪問研究員/教職員，並在印度微軟研究實驗室實習。她曾是澳洲國家區塊鏈路線圖的“區塊鏈用於網絡安全”工作組成員，以及印度儲備銀行創立的區塊鏈工作組成員。Sushmita是Elsevier《信息安全與應用》（JISA）和《普遍和移動計算》（PMC）期刊的編輯委員會成員。她曾擔任ACISP 2021和Indocrypt 2019的程序主席。她在ISPA 2007、IEEE PIMRC 2011和IEEE ANTS 17上獲得了最佳論文獎。她獲得了三星GRO獎、NetApp教職獎學金、思科大學研究資助、IBM研究資助，並領導了一個網絡安全合作研究中心（CSCRC）項目，該項目是新南威爾斯州iAWARD'22的優秀獎。Sushmita是ACM和IEEE的高級會員。她在印度工程科學與技術學院（IIEST）Shibpur獲得了學士學位，並在印度統計研究所獲得了碩士和博士學位，專業都是計算機科學。

Salil Kanhere是澳洲新南威爾斯大學（UNSW Sydney）計算機科學與工程學院的教授。他還隸屬於澳洲CSIRO的Data61、網絡安全合作研究中心（CSCRC）和UNSW網絡安全研究所（IFCYBER）。他的研究興趣涵蓋物聯網、物聯網系統、網絡安全、區塊鏈和機器學習。他發表了300多篇同行評審的文章，並領導了幾個政府和行業資助的研究項目。他分別於2020年和2014年獲得了德國亨堡基金會的弗里德里希·威廉·貝塞爾研究獎和洪堡研究獎學金。他是IEEE和ACM的高級會員，ACM的傑出演講者和IEEE計算機學會的傑出訪問學者。他曾在新加坡I2R、德國達姆施塔特工業大學、瑞士蘇黎世大學和奧地利格拉茨理工大學擔任訪問職位。他擔任《Ad Hoc Networks》期刊的主編，並擔任IEEE Transactions On Network and Service Management、Computer Communications和Pervasive and Mobile Computing的副編輯。他經常擔任幾個IEEE/ACM國際會議的組織委員會成員。Salil合著了一本名為《區塊鏈用於物聯網系統》的書，於2020年由Artech House出版。

Mauro Conti是意大利帕多瓦大學的教授，他還隸屬於荷蘭代爾夫特理工大學和美國華盛頓大學西雅圖分校。他於2009年在羅馬Sapienza大學獲得博士學位。在博士學位後，他在荷蘭阿姆斯特丹自由大學擔任博士後研究員。2011年，他加入帕多瓦大學擔任助理教授，2015年晉升為副教授，2018年晉升為教授。他曾在GMU、UCLA、UCI、TU Darmstadt、UF和FIU擔任訪問研究員。他曾獲得歐洲委員會的瑪麗居里獎學金（2012年）和德國DAAD的獎學金（2013年）。他的研究也得到了思科、英特爾和華為等公司的資助。他的主要研究興趣是安全和隱私領域。在這個領域，他在國際頂級同行評審期刊上發表了550多篇論文。