**About the Editors**

**Emil Pricop** is currently Associate Professor and Head of the Control Engineering, Computers & Electronics Department of the Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, Romania. Also, he is an invited professor at the Computer Engineering Department of Faculty of Engineering, Marwadi University, India. He received his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti by defending the thesis "Research regarding the security of control systems" (2017). His research interest is cybersecurity, focusing mainly on industrial control systems security. Dr. Pricop is co-editor of two books published by Springer, namely Recent Advances in Systems Safety & Security (2016) and Recent Developments on Industrial Control Systems Resilience (2020). Also, he is the author or co-author of two Romanian patents, six book chapters published in books edited by Springer, and over 30 papers in journals or international conferences. From 2013, Dr. Pricop the initiator and chairman of the International Workshop on Systems Safety and Security—IWSSS, a prestigious scientific event organized annually. He is an IEEE member and has held the vice-chair position of the IEEE Young Professionals Affinity Group—Romania Section from 2017 to 2019.

**Grigore Stamatescu** graduated from the University Politehnica of Bucharest (UPB) in 2009 and holds the Ph.D. degree (2012) from the same university. He is currently an Associate Professor (Habil. 2019) with the Department of Automation and Industrial Informatics, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, UPB. His research interests include networked embedded sensing, the internet of things and distributed information processing in industry, the built environment and smart city applications. Recent results include statistical learning methods for load forecasting and anomaly detection in building energy traces and data-driven modelling of large-scale manufacturing systems, with focus on energy efficiency. Research results have been published in over 130 articles. Dr. Stamatescu was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar 2015–2016 at the University California, Merced, and a JESH Scholar of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2019. He is Senior Member of IEEE.

**Jaouhar Fattahi** is currently with Laval University in Quebec City, Canada, as an associate professor. He received his Ph.D. on cryptographic protocol security from Laval University in October 2015. He completed his postdoctoral training at the Valcartier Research Center for the Canadian Armed Forces in the field of cybersecurity. He is also a computer engineer since 1995. Jaouhar Fattahi is the author of the theory of witness functions for security verification of cryptographic protocols. He now specializes in reverse engineering and machine and deep learning applied to security and cybersecurity. He is a member of the IEEE.
