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 received the B.S. degree in electrical and electronics engineering and the Ph.D. degree in mathematics from Bilkent University, Ankara, Türkiye, in 1993 and 1997, respectively. Since 2006, he has been a Professor of mathematics with Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, with which he is still affiliated. Currently, he is a Professor of mathematics with Sabancı University, Istanbul. His research interests include algebraic curves, codes, sequences, cryptography, finite fields, and finite rings.

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 (Member, IEEE) was born in Sichuan, China, in 1982. He received the B.S. degree from Sichuan Normal University, Sichuan, in 2004, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Peking University, Beijing, China, in 2012. From 2017 to 2018, he was a Post-Doctoral Member with the Department of Mathematics, Universities of Paris VIII. From 2018 to 2020, he was a Post-Doctoral Member with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He was a Professor with the School of Mathematics and Information, China West Normal University, Nanchong, Sichuan. He is currently a Professor with the School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China. His research interests include cryptography, coding theory, and information security.

Arne Winterhof received the Diploma and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, in 1994 and 1996, respectively, and the Habilitation degree from the University of Vienna, Austria, in 2001. From 1999 to 2002, he was a Research Scientist with the Institute of Discrete Mathematics, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria. From 2002 to 2003, he was with the Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore. Since 2003, he has been with the Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Linz, Austria. His main research interests include finite fields and their applications, in particular, cryptography and pseudorandom number generation. He was awarded the Hlawka Prize in 2004 and the Advancement Award of the Austrian Mathematical Society in 2010.