Dr. Phu H. Phung is a researcher at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Gothenburg University (Sweden), and currently holds a joint appointment as a research associate at Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), where he received his Ph.D. degree in 2011. He received an M.Sc. degree from University of Ulsan (South Korea), 2006, and a bachelor degree from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (Vietnam) in 2001. In 2010, he spent 3 months as a visiting researcher at Stanford University. From 2001 to 2004, he was a lecturer and researcher at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology. Dr. Phung has been working on software security research, spanning the use of inlined reference monitor approach for system security including JavaScript and web application security, security architecture for automobile system, and cloud-based sustainability governance platforms. He has been serving as a program committee member for over a dozen of international conferences and as a reviewer for various reputable journals and conferences in computer security. He was a panelist at 2014 ITMC panel discussion on "Balancing Security and Usability". Currently, he is involved in a NSF-funded project on secure web advertisements, and in a DARPA-funded project on defensive optimizing compilation. Prior to that, he has worked on the European WebSand project which aims to provide an end-to-end framework secure web applications. Dr. Phung is a senior member of IEEE and IEEE Computer Society, a member of ACM, ACM SIGSAC, ACM SIGCSE, AAAS, and OWASP.