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Giancarlo Fortino (IEEE Fellow 2022) is Full Professor of Computer Engineering at the Dept of Informatics, Modeling, Electronics, and Systems of the University of Calabria (Unical), Italy. He received a PhD in Computer Engineering from Unical in 2000. He is also a distinguished professor at Wuhan University of Technology (China), a high-end expert at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China), a senior research fellow at the Italian ICAR-CNR Institute, CAS PIFI Group international fellow at SIAT (Shenzhen), and Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Sensors Council, SMC society, and IoT TC. He was also a visiting researcher at ICSI, Berkeley (USA), in 1997 and 1999, and a visiting professor at Queensland University of Technology in 2009. At Unical, he is the chair of the PhD School in ICT, the director of the SPEME lab and of the Radiomics lab, and the director of the Postgraduate Master course in AI-driven Radiomics, as well as co-chair of Joint labs on IoT technologies established between Unical and the WUT, SMU, and HZAU Chinese universities, and the AI-driven Robotics Lab funded with the J.C. Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA. Fortino is also the scientific responsible of the Digital Health group of the Italian CINI National Laboratory at Unical. He is a Highly Cited Researcher 2020-2025 in Computer Science by Clarivate (the only Italian professor ranked). He had 25+ highly cited papers in WoS, and an h-index of 88 with 33000+ citations in Google Scholar. His research interests include wearable computing systems, e-Health, Internet of Things, and agent-based computing. He is the author of 750+ papers in international journals, conferences, and books. He is (founding) series editor of IEEE Press Book Series on Human-Machine Systems and EiC of Springer Internet of Things series and AE of premier int'l journals such as IEEE TASE (senior editor), IEEE TAFFC-CS, IEEE THMS, IEEE T-AI, IEEE SJ, IEEE JBHI, IEEE OJEMB, IEEE OJCS, Information Fusion, EAAI, etc. He chaired many international workshops and conferences (130+), was involved in a huge number of international conferences/workshops (800+) as an IPC member, is/was a guest editor of many special issues (80+). He is cofounder and CEO of SenSysCal S.r.l., a Unical spinoff focused on innovative IoT systems, and, recently, cofounder and vice-CEO of the spin-off Bigtech S.r.l., focused on big data, AI, and IoT technologies. Fortino is the VP of Cybernetics (term 2026-2027) of the IEEE SMCS, member of the IEEE SMCS ExCom, and former chair of the IEEE SMCS Italian Chapter.