Dr. Zehua Wang was a Ph.D. student at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver under the supervision of Prof. Vincent W.S. Wong from 2012 to 2016 and was a Postdoctoral Researcher under the supervision from Prof. Victor C.M. Leung during 2017 and 2018. He is now a core-faculty member of Blockchain@UBC Research Centre, an Adjunct Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a Mentor of entrepreneurship@UBC. He has designed and been offering the technical blockchain courses for UBC's Graduate Blockchain Training Path Program since 2019. Before that, he was a Chief Scientist of RightMesh Project that applied blockchain technology in reducing they digital divide of northern Canada and received a commendation letter from the Hon. Justin Trudeau, P.M. of Canada, in 2018.
   He is interested in applying the cryptography, zero-knowledge proof, and game theories in the protocol designs and Web3 applications. His research focuses on improving the synergy and security of the decentralized multi-agent systems. The major research projects that he is currently working on include blockchain and smart contract security, zero-knowledge proof, and trustworthy and edge AI. He is a recipient of NSERC Discovery Grant and leading the Next Generation Secure and Collaborative Internet of Things (IoT) System project at UBC.
     He currently serves as an Area Editor of Elsevier Computer Communications (2023-present) and a Youth Editorial Board Member of Elsevier Blockchain: Research and Applications (2023-present). He has also served as a Guest Editor for several international journals, including the 2025 Special Issue on "User-Generated Content in Web3" for ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, the 2022 Special Issue on "Heterogeneous Cloud-Based Intelligent Computing for Next-Generation 5G Applications" for ACM/Springer Mobile Networks & Applications, and the 2020 Special Issue on "Intelligent Resource Management for 5G" for Springer Wireless Networks. He has taken on multiple leadership roles in international conferences. He serves as the Demo/Poster Chairs for the 16th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (IEEE CloudCom 2025) and the Technical Program Committee (TPC) Co-Chair for Track 4: Blockchain and Web 3.0 at the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking, and Applications (IEEE MetaCom 2025). He also served as the TPC Co-Chair for the International Workshop on Smart Multimedia in both 2017 and 2018.