Author Biographies

Dr. Marco Fabris received hisLaurea (M.Sc.) degree (with honors) in Automation Engineering and his PhD both from the University of Padua, in 2016 and 2020, respectively. In 2018, he spent six months with the Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering Dept. at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA, as a visiting scholar, focusing on distance-based formation tracking. In 2020-2021, he was a post-doctoral fellow with the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at the Technion, Haifa, Israel, directing his attention on the development of secure consensus protocols. From January 2022 to July 2023, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Dept. of Information Engineering at the University of Padua, where he now holds the position of Research Fellow supported by the Italian National Center for Sustainable Mobility. He is an IEEE member and he is serving as Associate Editor for the ECC 2025. His main research interests involve multi-agent systems, data-driven predictive control, and mobility as a service.
Dr. Riccardo Ceccato obtained a Master's Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Padua (Italy) and a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy). Since 2020, he has been working at the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at the University of Padova (Italy), where he is currently an assistant professor. Since 2016, he has been participating in several Horizon2020 projects funded by the European Commission. His research interests include travel behavior analysis, sustainable transportation system planning, traffic simulation, and logistics. He is currently working on the investigation of Mobility-as-a-Service adoption and related impacts, and the integration of innovative data sources to model travel behavior and simulate traffic flows.
Prof. Andrea Zanella is a Full Professor at the Department of Information Engineering (DEI), University of Padova. He received his Laurea in Computer Engineering (summa cum laude) in 1998 and Ph.D. in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering in 2002. He coordinates the SIGNET research lab and was a visiting scholar at UCLA (2000-2001). His research focuses on wireless protocols and networks, including IoT and smart cities, covering protocol design, optimization, and performance evaluation. With over 190 publications, he has served on the editorial boards of leading IEEE journals and contributed to the Italian National Plan for Research (2021-2027). Prof. Zanella has directed and participated in numerous national and international research projects, significantly advancing wireless networks and IoT technologies. He is a sought-after speaker and expert on smart city and industrial IoT applications, shaping the future of wireless communications and networking.
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