Dr. Haibo Hu is an associate professor in the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the programme leader of BSc (Hons) in Information Security. His research interests include cybersecurity, data privacy, internet of things, and adversarial machine learning. He has published over 110 research papers in refereed journals, international conferences, and book chapters. As principal investigator, he has received over 20 million HK dollars of external research grants from Hong Kong and mainland China. He is an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS). He has served in the organizing committee of many international conferences, such as ACM GIS 2020, IEEE ICDSC 2020, and IEEE MDM 2019, and in the programme committee of dozens of international conferences, including VLDB, ICDE, CIKM, SDM, and ICDM. He is the recipient of a number of titles and awards, including IEEE MDM 2019 Best Paper Award, WAIM Distinguished Young Lecturer, ICDE 2020 Outstanding Reviewer, VLDB 2018 Distinguished Reviewer, ACM-HK Best PhD Paper, Microsoft Imagine Cup, and GS1 Internet of Things Award. He is a senior member of ACM, IEEE and CCF, and a certified Cisco CCNA Security Trainer. 

• Data privacy
• IoT and network security
• Adversarial machine learning
• Mobile and spatiotemporal databases