**About the Editors**

**David Meg´ıas**, Professor at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain). David Meg´ıas received his B.Eng., M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees from the Universitat Autonoma de ` Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain) in 1994, 1996, and 2000, respectively. He is currently Full Professor at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona, Spain, and Director of the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) at UOC. He has authored more than 120 research papers in international conferences and journals. He has participated in different national research projects both as a contributor and as a principal investigator. He also has experience working in international projects, such as the European Network of Excellence of Cryptology of the 6th Framework Program of the European Commission. His research interests include security, privacy, data hiding, protection of multimedia contents, privacy in decentralized networks, and information security. He is a member of IEEE.

**Wojciech Mazurczyk**, Professor at the Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) (Warsaw, Poland). Wojciech Mazurczyk received his B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Hons.), and D.Sc. (habilitation) degrees in telecommunications from the Warsaw University of Technology (WUT), Warsaw, Poland, in 2003, 2004, 2009, and 2014, respectively. He is currently a University Professor with the Institute of Computer Science at WUT and head of the Computer Systems Security Group. He also works as a Researcher at the Parallelism and VLSI Group at Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at FernUniversitaet, Germany. His research interests include bio-inspired cybersecurity and networking, information hiding, and network security. He has been involved in the technical program committee of many international conferences and also serves as a reviewer for major international magazines and journals. Since 2016, he has served as Editor-in-Chief of the open access *Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility*. Between 2018 and 2021, he served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. He is also a Senior Member of IEEE.

**Minoru Kuribayashi**, Associate Professor at the University of Okayama (Okayama, Japan), Minoru Kuribayashi received his B.E., M.E., and D.E. degrees from Kobe University, Japan, in 1999, 2001, and 2004, respectively. Here, he served as a research associate from 2002 to 2007 and an assistant professor from 2007 to 2015. Since 2015, he has been an associate professor in the Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University. His research interests include multimedia security, digital watermarking, cryptography, and coding theory. He serves as an associate editor of JISA and IEICE and as a vice chair of the APSIPA Multimedia Security and Forensics Technical Committee. He is a member of the Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He received the Young Professionals Award from the IEEE Kansai Section in 2014 and the Best Paper Award at IWDW 2015 and 2019. He is a senior member of the IEEE and IEICE.
