Nurbol Luktarhan was born in Xinjiang, China in 1981. He received his BS, MS and PhD in Computer Science from Jilin University, Changchun, China in 2005, 2008 and 2010, respectively. From May 2015 to July 2016, he was a Visiting Scholar at Tsinghua University. He is currently an Associate Professor at Xinjiang University and the Deputy Director of the Network and Information Technology Center of Xinjiang University. His research interests include network security and data mining.