Dr. Zheng Yan is currently a Huashan distinguished professor at the Xidian University, China.She is a Fellow of IEEE, IET, and AAIA.She joined the Nokia Research Center, Helsinki in 2000, working as a senior researcher until 2011. She worked as a visiting professor and a Finnish Academy Fellow at the Aalto University, Finland for over seven years. She earned her PhD degree from the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.

Her research interests are in cyber trust, security, privacy, and data analytics. She has led 30+ projects, sponsored by EU, Academy of Finland, NSFC, MOST, telecom industry, etc. At the helm of a research team with 60+ members, she has supervised 160+ post-doctoral researchers and graduates. She has authored 390+ publications, with 260+ first and corresponding authorships, featured prominently in top-tier venues. The of them are top 0.1% or 1% highly-cited ESI papers. She is the sole author of two books on trust management, utilized in teaching for a decade. 130+ patents (including 73 independent inventions) invented by her have been adopted by industry, a few of them have been incorporated into international standards and widely used in practice. She has delivered 40+ invited keynote speeches and talks at international conferences and world-leading companies. HerGoogle Scholar citation about 15,000 with an H-index of 62,

Zheng served and is serving as an executive EiC of Information Sciences, an area/associate/guest editor for 60+ reputable journals, a steering committee member of several conferences, a general/program chair for 30+ international conferences. She is a founding steering committee co-chair of IEEE International Conference on Blockchain, which becomes a leading venue in the field.

Dr. Yan is recognized as a World Top 2% Scientist and an Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researcher. She has earned many accolades, including Distinguished Inventor of Nokia for significant technology contributions, N²Women Star in Computer Networking and Communications, IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing, ELEC Impact Award for patent contributions to Finnish society, the Best Journal Paper Award issued by IEEE ComSoc and several other Best Paper awards, 18 times IEEE Distinguished/Outstanding Leadership/Service awards, three EU awards, etc. Her excellence has been covered by the media on numerous occasions.