Mingwu Zhang is a professor with the School of Computers in Hubei University of Technology. From 2010 to 2012, he was a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow of the Japan Society of Promotion Sciences at the Institute of Mathematics for Industry in Kyushu University, Japan. From 2015 to 2016, he was a Senior Visiting Professor with the School of Computing and Information Technology, University of Wollongong, Australia. His research interests include networks and data security, secure computation and privacy preservation in big data, AI, clouds, and crowdsensing, etc.