Zan Zhou received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Technology from the School of Computer Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing, China, in 2022. From 2021 to 2022, he was a Visiting Student at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology at BUPT. He has published over 30 papers in prestigious journals and conferences, including IEEE TDSC, TCCN, TCE, IoTJ, NETWORK, Com. Mag., and TBC. He has received multiple Best/Outstanding Paper Awards from UIC’24, ICBCTIS’25, and ACSTA’26. His research interests include data privacy, active defense, and network security.