Chunlei Li (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Bergen, Norway, in 2014. He was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the University of Stavanger, Norway, from 2015 to 2017, and a Researcher with the University of Bergen from 2017 to 2018. Since 2018, he has been an Associate Professor with the Department of Informatics, University of Bergen. His research interests include sequence design, coding theory, and cryptography. He was the Program Co-Chair of the workshops Mathematical Methods for Cryptography in 2017 and Sequences and Their Applications (SETA) in 2020, 2024, and served as a Program Committee Member for several workshops, including WAIFI18, SETA18, BFA20/21/22/23/24/25, IWSDA19/22/25, and WCC22.

Ferruh Özbudak is a Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences at Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey. He obtained his B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (1993), M.Sc. in Mathematics (1995), and Ph.D. in Mathematics (1997), all from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Prior to his appointment at Sabancı University, he served as a professor of mathematics at Middle East Technical University (METU), where he also chaired the Cryptography Program at the Institute of Applied Mathematics for more than 15 years. He has received several recognitions, including the Mustafa Parlar Education and Research Foundation Research Award (2001), the Turkish Academy of Sciences Young Scientist Award (2004), the Prof. Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda Science Award from the Mathematics Foundation (2009), the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (2012), and the Newton Mobility Grant Award from The Royal Society, UK (2018). He has visited several universities for research collaboration, including Anhui University in China, Universität Duisburg-Essen in Germany, National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Tulane University in the USA, Aalborg University in Denmark, Loughborough University in the UK, and Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg in Germany. He is currently serving as an editor for Advances in Mathematics of Communications and IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. His research interests include algebraic curves, finite fields, coding theory, and cryptography.

Hong-Yeop Song (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, in 1984, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, USA, in 1986 and 1991, respectively. He spent two years as a Research Associate with USC and then two years as a Senior Engineer with the Standard Team, Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, CA, USA. Since September 1995, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University. His research interests include digital communications and channel coding, design and analysis of various pseudo-random sequences for communications, and cryptography. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK), the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), the Korean Mathematical Society (KMS), KICS, IEIE, and KIISC. He was awarded the 2017 Special Contribution Award from Korean Mathematical Society and the 2021 S. J. Choi Award from the Korean Government, both for his contribution to the global wide-spread of the fact that S. J. Choi (1646-1715) from South Korea had discovered a pair of orthogonal Latin squares of order nine much earlier than Euler. He served for the IEEE IT Society Seoul Chapter as the Chair from 2009 to 2016. He served as the General Co-Chair for IEEE ITW 2015, Jeju, South Korea.

Chunming Tang is a Research Professor at the School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University. He received his Ph.D. degree from Peking University in July 2012, and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Paris VIII and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). His primary research interests focus on coding and cryptographic theory oriented towards cyberspace security. As an independent, first, or corresponding author, he has published over 80 papers in prestigious journals within his field, including more than 30 papers in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, the flagship journal in coding and cryptography. In recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of cryptographic functions, he was awarded the George Boole Prize, a distinguished international academic award in cryptography. His research achievements have also earned him the Second Prize of the Natural Science Award from the Ministry of Education of China (ranked 2nd out of 4). Furthermore, he serves as the Principal Investigator (PI) for both Key and General Programs funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).

Arne Winterhof received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Technical University of Braunschweig in 1996. In 2001, he obtained his habilitation from the University of Vienna. He was awarded the Hlawka Prize in 2004 and the Advancement Award of the Austrian Mathematical Society in 2010. From 1999 to 2002, he was a research scientist at the Institute of Discrete Mathematics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, and from 2002 to 2003 at Temasek Laboratories at the National University of Singapore. Since 2003, he has been with the Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Linz. He serves on the editorial boards of Cryptography and Communications: Discrete Structures, Boolean Functions and Sequences, Journal of Uniform Distribution Theory, and Advances in Mathematics of Communications. He was co-editor of the Sequences and Their Applications (SETA) proceedings in 2008 and 2014. His research focuses on finite fields and their applications, particularly the analysis of pseudorandom sequences. He has published more than 160 papers in international refereed journals and conferences and co-authored the monograph Applied Number Theory with Harald Niederreiter. He is widely recognized for his contributions to the theory of pseudorandomness and finite fields.