Dr. Jiantao Zhou is the Head & Full Professor at the Department of Computer and Information Science, Faculty of Science and Technology and the State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City, University of Macau. He graduated from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2009 with a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He was a Fulbright Junior Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States for one year. Professor Zhou’s research focuses on AI security, multimedia information privacy protection and forensics, and intelligent multimedia information processing. He has published more than 200 papers in top journals such as IEEE T-PAMI, IEEE T-IP, IEEE T-SP, IEEE T-IFS, IEEE T-AC and other top conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, ICML, MM, and AAAI. He serves as the Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. Image Processing, IEEE Trans. Multimedia, IEEE Trans. Dependable and Secure Computing, the top journals in the field of multimedia information processing and security, and the Editor-in-Chief of APSIPA Newsletters. He was the TPC Co-Chair of ICME 2023 and will be the General-Chair of APSIPA ASC 2024. He was the recipient of the 2022 Macau Science and Technology Award (Third Prize, Natural Science Award) and the 2023 Alibaba Outstanding Academic Cooperation Project Award.