The 8th ACM International Symposium on Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure (BSCI 2026)

Organization Committees

• Program Chairs
  Keke Gai, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
  Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
  Joseph Liu, Monash University, Australia
  Jing Yu, Minzu University of China, China
  


• Tentative Program Committee (to be expanded)
Mayank Raikwar, University of Oslo, Norway
Mayra Samaniego, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
William Hughes, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Hao Wang, Shandong Normal University, China
Shijie Zhang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Mak Sharma, Birmingham City University, UK
Shamik Sural, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Do Bao Son, University of Transport Technology, Vietnam
Ba-Lam Do, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam
Jun Du, Tsinghua University, China
Liang Wang, Hebei University, China
Zhixuan Fang, Tsinghua University, China
Paul Kearney, Birmingham City University, UK
Sizheng Fan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
Francesco Mercaldo, University of Sannio, Italy
Md Ali, Rider University, USA
Zhen Zhao, University of Wollongong, Australia
Junwei Zhang, Xidian University, China
Xun Yi, RMIT University, Australia
Jin, Zhang, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Jun Li, Blockchain Lab, Xiong’An Intelligent City Innovation Federation, Xiong’An China
Qin Wang, CSIRO Data61, Australia
Naoto Yanai, Osaka University, Japan
Wei Cai, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
Hua Yin, Guangdong University of Finance and Economics, China
Zhiyu Xu, NSCLab, China
Lei Xu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Mohammad Saidur Rahman, RMIT University, Australia
Minfeng Qi, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia


• Organizers’ Bios
KEKE GAI received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science at Pace University, New York, USA. He also holds degrees from Nanjing University of Science and Technology (BEng), The University of British Columbia (MET) and Lawrence Technological University (MBA and MS). He is currently a Deputy Dean and a Professor in the School of Artificial Intelligence, a Professor in the School of Cyberspace Science and Technology at Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, and an Assistant President in Zhonguancun Academy. Keke Gai has published more than 200 refereed journals or conference papers, including 10 ESI high cited papers. He has been granted more than 10 Best Paper Awards (SecureComm’25, WASA’25, KSEM’24, KSEM’21, ICA3PP’20, IEEE TrustCom’18, IEEE HPCC’18, etc.) in recent years. His paper about edge computing has been named as the “Best Research Paper of 2018” by Journal of Network and Computer Applications. His cited counts reached more than 13800 as of October 2025 (Google Scholar). He is an Editor-in-Chief of the journal Blockchains and is serving as Associated Editors in a few decent journals, including IEEE TDSC, JPDC, FGCS etc, has served as a reviewer for top SCI journals, e.g., TECS, TII, TSC, TCC, TVT, TKDE, TETC, TASE, TEM, etc. He is involved in a number of academic associations, e.g., ACM, IEEE and CCF. His research interests include blockchain, cybersecurity, cloud computing, and edge computing. He has worked as program chairs in a few academic conferences, including BSCI 2019-2025, EdgeBlock 2020, EUC 2019, EdgeCom 2019, 2018, SmartCom 2018, etc. He is a general secretary of AEEEIT Blockchain Committee, a standing committee member of CCF TCBC, and a general secretary of IEEE Smart Computing STC. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.

KIM-KWANG RAYMOND CHOO received the Ph.D. in Information Security in 2006 from Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He currently holds the Cloud Technology Endowed Professorship at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). He serves as the Associate Editor-in-Chief of Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences; Department Editor of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management; Associate Editor of Computers & Electrical Engineering, Data & Knowledge Engineering, Digital Communications and Networks, IEEE Access, and IEEE Transactions on Big Data; Associate Technical Editor of IEEE Communications Magazine; Technical Editor of IEEE Network Magazine; Editor of Future Generation Computer Systems; and on the editorial board of Computers & Security, Cluster Computing, Electronic Commerce Research, IEEE Blockchain Technical Briefs, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and Journal of Network and Computer Applications.

Joseph Liu is a Full Professor in the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University. He got his PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong at 2004. His research areas include cyber security, blockchain and applied cryptography. He has received more than 12000 citations and with more than 200 publications in top venues such as CRYPTO, ACM CCS, IEEE S&P, NDSS, INFOCOM. He is currently the lead of the Monash Cybersecurity Discipline Group. He has established the Monash Blockchain Technology Centre at 2019 and serve as the founding director. His remarkable research in linkable ring signature forms the theory basis of Monero (XMR), one of the largest cryptocurrencies in the world with current market capitalization more than US$2 billion. He has been given the prestigious ICT Researcher of the Year 2018 Award by the Australian Computer Society (ACS), the largest professional body in Australia representing the ICT sector, for his contribution to the blockchain and cyber security community. He is currently the Co-Chair of the IEEE Blockchain Australia / New Zealand chapter. He has won the IEEE Technical Achievement Award in 2021 given by the Technology and Engineering Management Society for his achievement in the blockchain domain. He has served as the General Co-Chair of AsiaCCS in 2023.