Yuan Ping received the B.S. degree in electronics and information engineering from Southwest Normal University in 2003, the M.S. degree in mathematics from Henan University in 2008, and the Ph.D. degree in information security from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2012. He is a professor with the School of Information Engineering, Xuchang University, and is a visiting professor with School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University. He was a visiting scholar with the School of Computing and Informatics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette and with the Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta. His research interests include machine learning, public key cryptography, data privacy and security, cloud and edge computing.