Gabriele Gianini (Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree, in 1992, and the Ph.D. degree, in 1996. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. He has held a visiting positions at a number of international institutions, including INSA de Lyon, France, the University of Passau, Germany, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, Fermilab, Chicago, USA, and CBPF, Brazil. From 2005 to 2012, he has been an Adjunct Professor with the Free University of Bolzano, Italy. From 2017 to 2020, he has been a Senior Research Fellow with EBTIC/Khalifa University. His research interests include machine learning and data analytics applications. Since 1992, he has been coauthored over 200 papers published in internationally refereed journals and conferences. Since 2018, he has been an Associate Editor of the Data Science and Engineering (DSEJ) journal (Springer) and the Journal of Imaging Science and Technology (JIST) (Society for Imaging Science and Technology).