Stefania Loredana Nita , Ph.D., is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Information Systems and Cybernetic Security of "Ferdinand I" Military Technical Academy, Bucharest, Romania, where she teaches courses on Formal Languages and Translators, Management and Development of Database Applications, and Data Structures and Algorithms. Also, she is Software Developer at the Institute for Computers, Bucharest, Romania. She received her Ph.D. degree in 2021, and her Ph.D.
thesis is on advanced cryptographic schemes using searchable encryption and homomorphic encryption. She has worked for more than two years as Assistant Lecturer at the University of Bucharest where she taught courses on subjects such as Advanced Programming Techniques, Simulation Methods, and Operating Systems. She has authored and co-authored more than 32 work papers published in international conferences proceedings and journals and 7 books on functional programming and cryptography. She holds an M.Sc. in SoftwareEngineering and two B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics.
Marius Iulian Mihailescu , Ph.D., is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Informatics of "Spiru Haret" University, Bucharest, Romania, and Software IT Project Manager at the Institute for Computers, Bucharest, Romania. He is also CEO of Dapyx Solution Ltd., a company based in Bucharest, Romania, where he is involved in information security and cryptography-related research projects. He authored and co-authored more than 40 articles in conference proceedings and journals, and 8 books. For more than six years he has served as Lecturer at well-known national and international universities (the University of Bucharest, "Titu Maiorescu" University of Bucharest, and Kadir Has University in Istanbul, Turkey). He served for three years as IT Officer at Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
where he dealt with IT infrastructure, data security, and satellite communications systems. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2014, and his thesis was on applied cryptography over biometrics data.