About the reviewers

Aasim Ali is a full-stack blockchain engineer at Inncretech LLC, Princeton, New Jersey. He has a master's degree in information systems with a graduate certification in business intelligence from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey. He works with the blockchain and data science R&D team making POCs around AI, Ethereum, and Hyperledger for clients to incorporate in their proprietary systems, which helps them upgrade to new cutting-edge technologies.

F. Richard Yu is the chair of the IEEE P2418.3/4 blockchain standards, IEEE fellow, IET fellow, and professor at Carleton University, Canada. He is the leading general co-chair of IEEE conference on blockchain, 2019. Professor Yu has published 6 books and over 490 papers in international top-tier academic journals and conferences, with over 13,000 citations and an H-index of 63. He holds 27 international patents, and his innovative works have been incorporated into industry standards, impacting on millions of pieces of network equipment and billions of mobile devices. He received his PhD from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 2003.