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ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies, Volume 2 (2021), Issue 5

Romano Fantacci is a Full Pro‑ Adnan Rashid (IEEE and In‑
ternet Society member) is cur‑
fessor of Computer Networks at
the University of Florence, Flo‑ rently working as a Ph.D. Re‑
search Scholar in the Depart‑
rence, Italy, where he heads
ment of Information Engineer‑
the Wireless Networks Research
ing (DINFO), University of Flo‑
Lab. He is the founding director
of the Information Communica‑ rence, Italy, since November
2018. He received a Master’s
tion Technology Inc. (TiCOM),
degree in Computer Engineer‑
with Leonardo spa and of the
Wireless Communications Re‑ ing from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Cap‑
sear Centr (LiR ‑T Italia. He re‑ ital University of Science & T (CUS Islam‑
ceived an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the abad, Pakistan, in December 2015. He received a Bach‑
University of Flor Italy and a Ph.D. degree in Com‑ elor of Science in Computer Science (BSCS) from the Fed‑
puter Networks from the University of Florence, Italy. Dr. eral Urdu University of Arts, Science, and Technology (FU‑
Fantacci was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 2005 for con‑ UAST), Islamabad, Pakistan, 2009. He was a visiting fac‑
t wireless network He re‑ ulty fr 2017‑to‑2018 of
ceived several awards for his research, including the IEE Computer Science at the PMAS‑Arid Agriculture Univer‑
Benefactor Pr the 2002 IEEE Distinguished Con‑ sity Rawalpindi, Pakistan. His research activity focused
tributions to Satellite Communications Award, the 2015 security resilience of syst Software
IEEE WTC R Awar IEEE sister society Defined Networking (SDN), and Fog Network He is in‑
Y Resear Awar IARIA Paper volved multiple wor gr re‑
Awar IEEE IWCMC’16 P Awar the sear t standardize 6LoWPAN‑ND fea‑
IEEE Globecom’16 Best Paper Awar He served as Area tures. He is collaborating with the open‑source ns‑3 sim‑
Editor for IEEE Tr Wireless Commun., Associate Ed‑ ulator maintainers for the development of the 6LoWPAN‑
itor for IEEE Tr IEEE Tr Wireless ND protocol.
Comm., Area Editor for IEEE IoT Journal, Regional Editor
for IET Communications and Associate Editor for several
non‑IEEE Technical He guest edited special is‑
sues for IEEE Journals and Magazines and served as sym‑
posium chair of several IEEE conferences, including VTC,
WCNC, PIRMC, ICC and Dr Fantacci currently
serves as a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE
sister society AEIT, and of the Steering Committee of IEEE
Wireless Comm. Letters.

Tommaso Pecorella (Senior
member IEEE) received Ph.D.
and M.Sc. degrees in Electronic
(Telecommu‑
tr fr the
of Information
at University of
Flor (Ital 2000 and
1996 respectively Fr 2001
t 2007 w researcher
at Consorzio Interuniversitario per Tele‑
comunicazioni (CNIT). Nov 2007 a
tenure‑track Professor of
Information Engineering at University of Florence (Italy).
2018 2019 w professor at
University of Saint Louis, Missouri (USA). He received the
awar at IEEE GLOBECOM 2016, in
2021 got the Italian Habilitation (Abilitazione Scienti ica
for Associat Professorship Telecommu‑
nication He is the author of more than 90
publications betw confer journals.
His resear inter f communication
syst networ security application of machine
learning to networking systems.

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