Gianluigi Ferrari is an associate professor of telecommunications at the University of Parma, Italy. Since September 2006 he has been the Coordinator of the Internet of Things (IoT) Laboratory ( http://iotlab.unipr.it/ ) and, since 2016, the co-founder, president and CEO of things2i s.r.l. ( http://www.things2i.com/ ), a spin-off company of the University of Parma dedicated to IoT and smart systems. His research activities revolve around signal processing, communication/networking, and IoT. He has published extensively in these areas and coordinated several technical projects, including EU-funded competitive projects. He is a senior member of the IEEE. He received his PhD in information technologies from the University of Parma, Italy.