Hong-Ning Dai is an associate professor in Faculty of Information Technology at Macau University of Science and Technology. He obtained the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He worked in Department of Information Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute after his Ph.D. study. He also holds visiting positions at Department of Computer Science and Engineering in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications in the University of New South Wales, Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute, School of Data and Computer Science in Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou, China), School of Computer Science and Engineering in University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering in South China University of Technology, respectively.

His research interests include Internet of Things, Big Data Analytics and Blockchains. He has published more than 90 peer-reviewed papers in top-tier journals and conferences, including ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, ACM/Springer Wireless Networks, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE WCNC, IEEE PIMRC, ACM WUWNet, IEEE LCN, etc. He has 1 ESI highly-cited paper awarded by Clarivate Analytics. He is also the holder of 1 U.S. patent and 1 Australia innovation patent. Due to his outstanding research performance, he was awarded with BOC Excellent Research Award of Macau University of Science and Technology in 2015.

Hong-Ning has been actively involved with a number of professional activities. In particular, he has served as guest editors of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics for special sections on  “Blockchain for Industrial Internet of Things” and “Emerging Privacy and Security Issues brought by Artificial Intelligence” in 2018 and 2019, respectively. Meanwhile, he is also serving as an Associate Editor in IEEE Access, and editorial board members of International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations and International Journal of Data and Network Science. He has also served as TPC co-chair of 2019 International Conference on Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems (BlockSys’ 2019), TPC co-chair of special session on “Blockchain for Industrial Internet-of-Things” in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems 2019, TPC co-chair of special session on “Recent Advances in Security and Privacy in Wireless Networking Systems” in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing, 2015. He has been reviewers for more than 30 journals including IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Network, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, etc. He is also a Founding Member of of the IEEE Special Interest Groups (SIG) on Intelligent Internet Edge (IIE) at IEEE. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a professional member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).