Marco Avvenuti received the MS degree in Electrical Engineering (Ingegneria Elettronica) from the University of Pisa and the PhD degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy. Currently, he serves as Full Professor with the Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione (DII) at the University of Pisa, Italy. He is president of the BS and MS courses in Computer Engineering and Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering. He is member of the Academic Board of the PhD program in Information Engineering. He has taught computer science and engineering courses at the University of Pisa, Scuola Superiore S.Anna, Accademia Navale di Livorno and IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca. In 1992 and 1996 he spent research stays at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) of Berkeley, CA. Current research interests include applications of Artificial Intelligence to pervasive healthcare, human-centric sensing, social media analytics. He has published more than 100 research papers in the area of distributed systems, mobile/pervasive computing, data and web science. He contributed to several research programs funded by both national and European institutions.