Editors

Series Editor
  • Giancarlo Fortino
  • Antonio Liotta

About the Editor

Giancarlo Fortino (IEEE Fellow 2022) is Full Professor of Computer Engineering at the Dept of Informatics, Modeling, Electronics, and Systems of the University of Calabria (Unical), Italy. He received a PhD in Computer Engineering from Unical in 2000. He is also distinguished professor at Wuhan University of Technology and Huazhong Agricultural University (China), high-end expert at HUST (China), senior research fellow at the Italian ICAR-CNR Institute, CAS PIFI visiting scientist at SIAT – Shenzhen, and Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Sensors Council. At Unical, he is the Rector’s delegate to Int’l relations, the chair of the PhD School in ICT, the director of the Postgraduate Master course in INTER-IoT, and the director of the SPEME lab as well as co-chair of Joint labs on IoT established between Unical and WUT, SMU and HZAU Chinese universities, respectively. Fortino is currently the scientific responsible of the Digital Health group of the Italian CINI National Laboratory at Unical. He is Highly Cited Researcher 2020 and 2021 in Computer Science by Clarivate. Currently he has 19 highly cited papers in WoS, and h-index=67 with 16500+ citations in Google Scholar. His research interests include wearable computing systems, e-Health, Internet of Things, and agent-based computing. He is author of 550+ papers in int’l journals, conferences and books. He is (founding) series editor of IEEE Press Book Series on Human-Machine Systems and EiC of Springer Internet of Things series and AE of premier int'l journals such as IEEE TAFFC-CS, IEEE THMS, IEEE T-AI, IEEE IoTJ, IEEE SJ, IEEE JBHI, IEEE SMCM, IEEE OJEMB, IEEE OJCS, Information Fusion, JNCA, EAAI, etc. He chaired many int’l workshops and conferences (120+), was involved in a huge number of int’l conferences/workshops (500+) as IPC member, is/was guest-editor of many special issues (75+). He is cofounder and CEO of SenSysCal S.r.l., a Unical spinoff focused on innovative IoT systems, and recently cofounder and vice-CEO of the spin-off Bigtech S.r.l, focused on big data, AI and IoT technologies. Fortino is currently member of the IEEE SMCS BoG and of the IEEE Press BoG, and chair of the IEEE SMCS Italian Chapter.

Antonio Liotta (SMEEE’15) is Full Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bolzano (Italy), where he teaches Data Science and Computer Networks. Antonio’s passion for artificial intelligence, has driven his academic career throughout Europe. After majoring his master´s degree with a thesis in artificial vision (University of Pavia, 1994), he earned a second master in ICT with a major in e-Health (Politecnico di Milano, 1996), and completed his PhD in Computer Science with a thesis in intelligent networks (University College London, 2001). He then progressed to a range of tenured academic roles at University of Surrey (intelligent networks, 2001-05) and Essex University (intelligent systems, 2005-2008). In the period between 2008 and 2020, he held professorships at Eindhoven University of Technology (NL), University of Derby (UK), and Edinburgh Napier University (UK), in tandem with Visiting and Distinguished Professorships in the UK, Australia and China. . In 2017 he was the founding director of the Data Science Research Centre, which is now a prominent institution in data science and intelligent systems. Antonio´s team is at the forefront of influential research in data science and artificial intelligence. He is renowned for his contributions to micro-edge intelligence and miniaturized machine learning, which have significant potential in harnessing data-intensive systems, for instance in the context of smart cities, cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things, smart energy, and machine learning with humans in the loop s. Antonio has led the international team that has recently made a breakthrough in artificial neural networks, initiating a new research strand at the intersection between machine learning and network science. He is also well-known for demonstrating machine learning processes in tiny sensors, proving the benefits of concurrent sensing and learning. One of the hallmarks of Antonio´s work is international research collaboration. He has set up several cross-border virtual teams, and has been credited with over 350 publications involving, overall, more than 150 co-authors. He is IEEE Senior Member (since 2015), Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (since 2003) and member of the following IEEE Technical Committees: Interactive and Wearable Computing and Devices; Environmental Informatics and Sensor Networks; Big Data; Internet of Things; Smart Cities; Smart Grid; Green ICT; Software Defined Networks; QoE for Multimedia Communications; Rebooting Computing; Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design. Antonio is Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Internet of Things book series and associate editor of several prestigious journals. He is the author of “Networks for Pervasive Services: six ways to upgrade the Internet”.