Lihua Yin received a Ph.D. degree from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. She is currently a Professor and an Associate Dean at the Cyberspace Institute of Advanced Technology, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China. She has authored more than 120 papers published by refereed international conferences and journals, e.g., IEEE Transaction on Knowledge Data Engineering, IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering, and Computer Security, Infocom. Her research interests include network security, Internet of Things, secure threat intelligence sharing, and big data. She has been the project leader of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Key research and Development Plan of China, the Major State Basic Research Development Program of China and National High-tech R&D Program of China. She is an editorial board member of the Journal of Network and Information Security.