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Biographies

​​Wenting Chang
Standard Expert, Alibaba

Wenting Chang is a standardization expert, and she graduated from Tsinghua University as a PHD. She joined Intel and engaged in wireless system standardization, e.g. 3GPP, MulteFire, Wifi. And then she switched to blockchain related  technologies after participating in Antchain, Alibaba.

​​​ Wei Kai 
ITU-T Study Group 16 Q22 Rapporteur Secretary/ General of TBI, CAICT

Mr. Wei Kai is Chairman of ITU-T Focus Group on Application of Distributed Ledger Technology(FG DLT). He is the Vice Director of Cloud and Big Data Institute, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology(CAICT). He leads a research group in CAICT working on big data and blockchain technology, consulting, standardization, testing and certification. His team proposed the Trusted Blockchain framework, which is a framework for Blockchain and DLT platform assessment. He is the founder and the Secretary General of Trusted Blockchain Initiatives(TBI), a cooperation network of 300 blockchain commpanies from China and abroad. He was the core drafting group of several Chinese national industrial policy and standards in ICT area in the past years. Wei Kai is also the Rapporteur of Question 22 under ITU-T Study Group 16.

Jean-Marc Seigneur
Director of the blockchain certificate of advanced studies, University of Geneva

PD Dr. Jean-Marc Seigneur has published more than 140 peer-reviewed scientific publications worldwide in the field of decentralized trust. He is the director of the blockchain certificate of advanced studies at the University of Geneva. He has evaluated multi-million Euros blockchain project proposals for the European Commission. He has also directed such projects as principal investigator at the University of Geneva. He has taught, presented, and discussed blockchain, crypto-currencies, and decentralized finance at many international conferences and several governmental and international organizations (Digital Ministry of Thailand, World Intellectual Property Organization, State of Geneva...). His research focus is now on decentralized finance for good including offline crypto transactions with hardware wallets and trusted execution environments.

Rui Tian
Ph.D. Director of Research, ​Chaincomp Technologies Co., Ltd.

Rui Tian, Ph.D. director of research in Chaincomp Technologies Co., Ltd. He is in charge of IoT and Blockchain integration products EdgeTrust and TrustIoTCloud. He has over 15 years of research and development experiences in embedded systems, IoT communication, networking with application areas in distributed computing, smart manufacturing, smart transportation, environment monitoring, smart agriculture, etc. He obtained Ph.D. in engineering from CAS, ICT.
Tao Zhang
Blockchain and Cryptography Expert, Tencent

Dr. Tao Zhang is a senior engineer in Tencent, an expert in Cryptography and Blockchain. He joined Tencent in September 2018. He received his Ph.D. in Cryptography from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2018. He is a committee member of the Blockchain Professional Board, Chinese Association for Cryptologic Research (CACR). He has published peer-reviewed scientific publications in information security and cryptography. His research interests are in zero-knowledge proofs, anonymous credentials, trusted execution environments, applied cryptography on blockchain, etc.

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