Bian Yang is a Professor at the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology, Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering and information security from the Harbin Institute of Technology, in 2000, 2002, and 2006, respectively. He joined the Norwegian Information Security Laboratory (NISlab), Gjøvik University College, working on privacy-preserving biometrics, from 2008 to 2015, and founded, in 2016, the eHealth and Welfare Security (eHWS) Group which aims at improving the cybersecurity and privacy understanding, methods, and technologies for healthcare services, and the mutual understanding between the health sector and the information security research community. His research interests include cybersecurity and privacy for e-health and welfare technologies and services, privacy modeling and enhancing technologies, secure biometrics and identity management, and security practice and human factors.