​​​Michele Zorzi received his Laurea and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. During the academic year 1992-1993 he was on leave at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). In 1993 he joined the faculty of the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. After spending three years with the Center for Wireless Communications at UCSD, in 1998 he joined the School of Engineering of the University of Ferrara, Italy, where he became a professor in 2000. Since November 2003 he has been on the faculty of the Information Engineering Department at the University of Padova. His present research interests include performance evaluation in mobile communications systems, WSN and Internet of Things, cognitive communications and networking, 5G mmWave cellular systems, vehicular networks, and underwater communications and networks.

Dr. Zorzi received several awards from the IEEE Communications Society, including the Best Tutorial Paper Award in 2008 and 2019, the Education Award in 2016, the Stephen O. Rice Best Paper Award in 2018, and the Joseph LoCicero Award for Exemplary Service to Publications in 2020. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Wireless Communications magazine from 2003 to 2005, the IEEE Transactions on Communications from 2008 to 2011, and the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking from 2014 to 2018. He has served the IEEE Communications Society as a Member-at-Large of the Board of Governors from 2009 to 2011 and from 2021 to 2023, as the Director of Education from 2014 to 2015, and as the Director of Journals from 2020 to 2021. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.​​