Dr. Xiong is an associate professor in the School of Information and Software Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). Dr. Xiong has been sponsored by several R+D funds to conduct his research in the field of applied cryptography and network security from Chinese government or the other academic agencies in China, and authored over 60 publications in the high quality international journals and conferences. He served in the review process of dozens of international journals on information security.