Lei Yu is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Before that, he was a Staff Research Scientist at IBM Research, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. His research interests include security and privacy, big data analytics & distributed systems, the security and privacy of machine learning, and cloud and mobile computing. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. Additional information can be found on his homepage https://leiyucs.github.io/ .