Zonghua Zhang is a faculty member of IMT Lille Douai, Institut Mines-Télécom in France. He holds a PhD in information science and an HDR (accreditation for research supervision) diploma in computer science. He has more than 15 years of academic and research experience in cybersecurity.

Ahmed Meddahi is Professor at IMT Lille Douai, Institut Mines-Télécom in France. He holds a PhD from Evry University with Institut National des Télécom and an HDR from UPMC-Paris 6 University. He has over 20 years of academic and research experience in network protocols and architecture.