<p>Dr. Shi-Cho Cha received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in information management from National Taiwan University, in 1996 and 2003, respectively. He is currently a professor and department chair with the Department of Information Management, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST), where he has been a faculty member since 2006. He is also the director of the information security center, NTUST (TWISC@NTUST).  He is a certified PMP, CISSP, CSSLP, CCFP, CISA, and CISM. Between 2003 and 2006, he was employed at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Taiwan, assisting numerous prominent firms and government bodies in developing their information security management systems. After joining the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, he helped several critical governmental systems to evaluate and enhance their security. He also carried out numerous National Science Council and industry-academia collaboration projects. </p>
<p>His research currently focuses on the security and privacy of blockchain applications, security and privacy in IoT and IIoT, risk management in information security, zero trust architecture, and the mechanisms of authentication and access control.</p>