Dr. Fei Hu is a professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alabama. He has published over 10 technical books with CRC press. His research focus includes cyber security and networking. He obtained his Ph.D. degrees at Tongji University (Shanghai, China) in the field of Signal Processing (in 1999), and at Clarkson University (New York, USA) in Electrical and Computer Engineering (in 2002). He has published over 200 journal/conference papers and books. Dr. Hu's research has been supported by U.S. National Science Foundation, Cisco, Sprint, and other sources. He won the school's President's Faculty Research Award (<1% faculty were awarded each year) in 2020.

Dr. Xiali (Sharon) Hei is an assistant professor in the School of Computing and Informatics at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her research focus is cyber and physical security. Prior to joining the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, she was an assistant professor at Delaware State University from 2015-2017 and Frostburg State University 2014-2015. Sharon received his Ph.D. in computer science from Temple University in 2014, focusing on computer security.