Dr. Xinxin Fan is the Head of Cryptography at IoTeX, a startup focusing on building the next-generation, auto-scalable, and privacy-centric blockchain infrastructure for the Internet of Trusted Things (IoTT). He is responsible for directing the company's strategy and product roadmaps as well as developing the core technologies and IP portfolio. Before joining IoTeX, he was a senior research scientist of Security and Privacy Group at Bosch Research Technology Center North America, where he defined and conducted innovative research on security and privacy for Internet of Things, machine-to-machine communication, cloud computing and data mining. Dr. Xinxin Fan received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2010. He has published 50+ referred research papers in top-tire journals, conferences and workshops in the areas of cryptography and information security and is an inventor of 15 patent filings for innovative information security and privacy-enhancing technologies. He is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) from (ISC)².