Dr. Xiaodong Lin received the PhD degree in Information Engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, and the PhD degree (with Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies Award) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is currently a professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Guelph, Canada. His research interests include computer and network security, privacy protection, applied cryptography, computer forensics, and software security. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.