Politecnico di Milano, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Italy;Stefano Mariani received an M.S. degree (cum laude) in civil engineering in 1995, and a Ph.D. degree in structural engineering in 1999; both degrees are from the Polytechnic University of Milan. He is currently a professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Milan. He was a research scholar at the Danish Technical University in 1997, an adjunct professor at Penn State University in 2007, and a visiting professor at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University in 2009. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Algorithms, International Journal on Advances in Systems and Measurements, Inventions, Machines, Micro and Nanosystems, Micromachines, and Sensors. He has been a recipient of the Associazione Carlo Maddalena Prize for graduate students (1996), and of the Fondazione Confalonieri Prize for PhD students (2000). His main research interests are: the reliability of MEMS that are subject to shocks and drops; structural health monitoring via machine and deep learning strategies; numerical simulations of ductile fracture in metals and of quasi-brittle fracture in heterogeneous and functionally graded materials; extended finite element methods; the calibration of constitutive models via extended and sigma-point Kalman filters; and multi-scale solution methods for dynamic delamination in layered composites.

University of Koblenz, Department and Institute of Computer Science, Working Group Practical Computer Science, Koblenz, Germany;Dr. Stefan Bosse studied physics at the University of Bremen. He received a PhD/doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) in physics in the year 2002 at the University of Bremen, and the post-doctoral degree (Habilitation) and the Venia Legendi in Computer Science in the year 2016 at the University of Bremen. Since 2016 he is teaching and researching as a Privatdozent at the University of Bremen, Department of Computer Science, University of Siegen, Department of Mechanical Enginerring, and in the years 2018 and 2019 he was an interim professor at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Faculty Computer Science, Institute of Software Technologies. He published more than 100 journal and conference papers and acts as a reviewer and a guest editor for several international journals and is a member of a broad range of international conference programme and organizing committees. His main research areas are Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Sensor Data Science, addressing modern computing environments like IoT, Edge Computing, Cloud and material-integrated intelligent systems. He is an expert in Multi-agent System technologies, Machine Learning combined with Simulation, and design of and computing on low-resource embedded systems. With his work he closes the gap between hardware, software, and applications with a strong technology and engineering focus.

Public University of Navarre, Department of Electrical, Electronic and Communication Engineering & Institute for Smart Cities (ISC), Spain;Tecnológico de Monterrey, School of Engineering and Sciences, Mexico;Dr. Francisco Falcone received his Telecommunication Engineering Degree (1999) and PhD in Communication Engineering (2005), both at the Public University of Navarre in Spain. From 1999 to 2000 he worked as Microwave Commissioning Engineer, Siemens-Italtel. From 2000 to 2008 he worked as Radio Network Engineer, Telefónica Móviles. In 2009 he co-founded Tafco Metawireless. From 2003 to 2009 he was also Assistant Lecturer at UPNA, becoming Associate Professor in 2009. His research area is artificial electromagnetic media, complex electromagnetic scenarios and wireless system analysis, with applications to context aware environments, Smart Cities and Smart Regions. He has over 500 contributions in journal and conference publications. He has been recipient of the CST Best Paper Award in 2003 and 2005, Best PhD in 2006 awarded by the Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación, Doctorate award 2004-2006 awarded by UPNA, Juan Lopez de Peñalver Young Researcher Award 2010 awarded by the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain and Premio Talgo 2012 for Technological Innovation.

Gustave Eiffel University, Laboratory of Electronics, Communications Systems and Microsystems, France;Dr. Jean-Marc Laheurte received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and the Habilitation to Supervise Research from the University of Nice, France, in 1989, 1992 and 1997, respectively. From 1989 to 1990, he was a research assistant at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. In 1992, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. From 1993 to 2002, he was an Associate Professor at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France. Since 2002, he has been a Professor at the University Gustave Eiffel, France. In 2012, he spent a year as a senior RF engineer at Tagsys, La Ciotat, France. For the past 8 years, he has been the director of the 75-member Electronics, SYstèmes de COmmunications and Microsystems Laboratory (ESYCOM Laboratory). He is the author or co-author of two books, two book chapters, more than 80 technical papers in international journals and 90 conference papers. He holds two patents on RFID technologies. His current research interests include antennas in matter, RFID technologies, RFID localization, Body Area Network Antennas (BANs) and channel modeling.