Dr. Roberto de Fazio received a Master’s degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Salento in 2017, where he also completed a Ph.D. course in Complex Systems Engineering, working on the development of smart, wearable devices, and energy-harvesting systems applied to the human body. He currently works at the Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Salento, Lecce (Italy). His research interests include the design and testing of electronic boards; the firmware programming of microcontroller-based boards, sensors, and energy-harvesting applications; and the development of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and body-area networks (BANs). His further research interests concern the development of photo-ignition systems for gaseous and liquid fuels based on nano-energetic materials for the automotive field and the design and testing of sensing platforms applied to waste transformation processes. He is the author of 60 papers in international journals and conference proceedings.
Prof. Dr. Massimo De Vittorio is the coordinator of the Center for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Lecce, Italy, and a full professor at Università del Salento where he is a lecturer for the courses “electronic and photonic devices” and “nanotechnologies for electronics”. For more than ten years, he has been responsible for the nanodevice division at the National Nanotechnology Laboratory (NNL) of the CNR Istituto Nanoscienze. His research activity deals with the development of science and technology applied to nano-photonics, nano-electronics, and nano- and micro-electromechanical systems (NEMS/MEMS) for applications in the fields of life science, energy, and ICT. During his career, he has designed and coordinated micro- and nanofabrication facilities with both backend and frontend technologies, with full prototyping and small-/medium-scale production capabilities. He has been a consultant for high-tech corporations and founder/advisor of four start-up companies. He is the author of about 280 manuscripts in international journals, 70 proceedings of international conferences, 14 patents, 10 book chapters, and more than 60 invited/keynote talks at international conferences. He is also a senior editor of the Journal of IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, a board member of the International Micro- and Nanoengineering Society (iMNEs), and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Microelectronic Engineering (Elsevier).
Prof. Dr. Luigi Patrono received an M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Lecce, Lecce, Italy, in 1999, and a Ph.D. degree in Innovative Materials and Technologies for Satellite Networks from ISUFI, University of Lecce, Italy, in 2003. He is an Associate Professor of Computer Networks and the Internet of Things at the University of Salento, Lecce, where he also serves as the Pro-Vice Chancellor for Digital Technologies. His research interests include RFID, IoT, wireless sensor networks, embedded systems, pervasive and smart environments, and Federate Learning. He has authored over 180 scientific papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He has been the Organizing Chair of several international symposia and workshops focused on the Internet of Things, technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society.
