Pantelimon Stanica is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics, Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Sciences (GSEAS) at Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, USA. He is also associated with the Institute of Mathematics of Romanian Academy as a researcher. He received his doctoral degree in mathematics from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1998. He also received a doctorate in algebra from the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy in 1998. He has published over 150 research articles in internationally reputed journals and conferences and has co-authored a book on Cryptographic Boolean Functions (now in the second edition) and co-edited two conference proceedings. His research interests include number theory, cryptography, coding theory, combinatorics, finite fields, Boolean functions, valuation theory, class field theory, and theoretical computer science. Sugata Gangopadhyay is currently working as a Professor in theDepartment of Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. He received his doctoral degree in mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, in 1998. He received an Outstanding Teacher Award in 2016 from IIT Roorkee and ONR-Global VSP award to visit Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California USA. He served in the program committee of NSUCRYPTO the International Students' Olympiad in Cryptography organized by Novosibirsk State University, Russia. He has published several research articles in internationally reputed journals and conferences. His research interests include cryptology, cryptographic Boolean functions, and stream cipher cryptanalysis.  Sumit Kumar Debnath is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur, India. He received his doctoral degree in cryptology & network security from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, in 2017. He has published several research articles in internationally reputed journals and conferences. He is a life member of the Cryptology Research Society of India (CRSI). His research interests include multivariate cryptography, lattice-based cryptography, isogeny-based cryptography, quantum cryptography, secure two-party/multi-party computation, secure set intersection, electronic voting, functional encryption, identity-based cryptography, and oblivious transfer.