Giancarlo Fortino
Department of Informatics, Modeling, Electronics and Systems, University of Calabria, Italy

Giancarlo Fortino is currently a Professor of Computer Engineering (since 2006) at the Department of Informatics, Modeling, Electronics and Systems (DIMES) of the University of Calabria (Unical), Rende (CS), Italy. In 2013 he took the Italian Scientific Habilitation for Full Professorship. He received a Laurea Degree (BSc+MSc) in Computer Engineering and a PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Calabria, Italy, in 1995 and 2000, respectively. He has been a Research Scholar at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley (CA), USA, in 1997 and 1999, and Visiting Professor at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia, in 2009. He was also Assistant Professor from 2001 to 2006 at University of Calabria. He was nominated Guest Professor in Computer Engineering of Wuhan University of Technology on April, 18 2012 (the term of appointment is three years) and in April 2015 he was nominated Adjunct Full Professor of Computer Engineering in the framework of High-End Foreign Experts in China (the term of appointment is three years). He has been nominated Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at ICAR-CNR (Italian National Research Council), for the year 2015. He has been also recently nominated High-end Expert at HUST (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), China.

He is co-founder and CEO of SenSysCal S.r.l., a spin-off of University of Calabria, whose mission is the development of innovative systems and services based on Internet of Things technology for health care, energy management and structural health. His research interests include distributed computing and networks, agent systems, agent oriented software engineering, body area networks and wearable computing, wireless sensor networks, Internet of Things (including social and trust mechanism), multimedia streaming content distribution networks, GRID/Cloud computing. He is the founder and leader of the SPEME (Smart, PErvasive and Mobile systems Engineering) Lab, which is engaged in cutting-edge research on novel programming languages, systems and architectures, and in their implementation in emerging application domains. He has been involved in research and development projects in the research/technical areas of Internet of Things, wireless sensor networks, intelligent and mobile agents, and content delivery networks. He gained funding for more than 2MEuro. Currently, he is the deputy coordinator and STPM of the EU-funded H2020 project INTER-IoT (Interoperability of IoT Platforms). He is author of many papers (350+) in international journals, conferences and books. From the bibliometrics viewpoint, in Google Scholar he got 4100+ citations and h-index=34 (he is in the VIA-Academy TIS ranking – Top Italian Scientists).

He is the co-founder (along with Prof. Wenfeng Li) and responsible of the Joint-Lab on IoT Technologies established between Unical and Wuhan University of Technology on July 2012. He is also the co-founder (along with Prof. Yongsheng Yang) and responsible of the Joint-Lab on Internet of Things Technologies oriented to Smart Port established between Unical and Shanghai Maritime University on Nov 2017. He has been awarded with the 2014 Andrew P. Sage Best IEEE SMC Transactions Paper. He is founding editor of the Springer Book Series on ÒInternet of Things: Technology, Communications and ComputingÓ and currently serves in the editorial board of IEEE Trans. on Affective Computing (associate editor), IEEE Trans. on Human-Machine Systems (associate editor), IEEE Sensors Journal (associate editor), IEEE Access, JNCA (Journal of Networks and Computer Applications, Elsevier), EAAI (Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier), INFFUS (Information Fusion, Elsevier, area editor on sensor fusion), Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (Sage), Journal of Smart Health (Elsevier), CASM (Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling, Springer), Journal of Bid Data and Cognitive Computing (MDPI), MAGS (Multi Agent and GRID Systems, IOS Press), IJOAIT (International Journal On Advances in Internet Technology, IARIA), SCPE (Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience).

He organized as chair many int'l workshops and conferences (about 90), was involved in a huge number of int'l conferences/workshops (400+) as IPC member, is/was guest-editor of many special issues (about 40) on Content Networks, Multimedia Systems, Agent-based Computing, Wireless Sensor Networks, Body Sensor Networks, Cloud Computing in many ISI-impacted journals (e.g. IEEE Trans. on Affective Computing, IEEE Trans. on Service Computing, IEEE Trans. on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Trans. on Human-Machine Systems, IEEE IoT Journal, IEEE Access, INFFUS, COMNET, JNCA, FGCS, JOS, SIMPAT, MONET, CERA, CCPE, EAAI, Sensors, IJDSN, MIS, Cluster Computing, MTAP, Simulation). He is IEEE Senior Member (member of the IEEE Computer, Communications, SMC, and IoT societies), co-chair of the IEEE SMC TC on "Interactive and Wearable Computing and Devices", member of the IEEE Press Editorial Board, and also member of ACM. He is currently the IEEE SMC Italian Chapter Chair and Member-at-large of the Board of Governors of the IEEE SMC Society.