Gian Guido Gentili was born in Turin, Italy, in 1961. He received the Laurea degree in electronics engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 1987. He joined as a Researcher with the Dipartimento di Elettronica ed Informazione, National Research Council (CNR), Center for Space Telecommunications, Politecnico di Milano, in 1989. In 2001, he became a Senior CNR Researcher. He became an Associate Professor with the Politecnico di Milano in 2002. He was visiting scholar at Politecnica de Madrid in 1993 and 1995. He is responsible for Politecnico di Milano for the joint Electromagnetics Laboratory of Politecnico di Milano “Wavelab-Metamat”. His research interests include numerical method for electromagnetics (finite elements, method of moments, and mode-matching), antennas and feed systems for terrestrial and space applications, microwave passive devices and filters, plasmonics, and terahertz radiation.

Michele D'Amico was born in Italy in 1965. He graduated from Politecnico di Milano in 1990; in 1997 he received his “Ph.D. in Mathematics” from the University of Essex (UK), with a thesis entitled “An Anisotropic Model of the Electromagnetic Properties of the Melting Layer, and Comparison with Radar Observations”, under the supervision of Prof. A.R. Holt. He has been Assistant Professor at DEI from 1993 to 2002. Since 2002 he has been Associate Professor in Applied Electromagnetics. Teaching duties at Politecnico di Milano included lectures and classes on Electromagnetic Fields, RF circuits and Antennas, Wireless and Mobile Propagation. Research activities include include antennas (antennas with reconfigurable radiation pattern and/or polarization state; metamaterial-based antennas; ZOR antennas; and antennas for the THz band), electromagnetic wave propagation in the troposphere at frequencies above 10 GHz, and radarmeteorology (both ground-based and airborne). He is one of the founders of ADANT, a very dynamic start-up whose mission is to develop and market novel and revolutionary antennas for next generation wireless communication systems. Since May 2013 he is responsible for the experimental activities of the Spino d’Adda laboratory of the Politecnico di Milano, dedicated to the experimental investigation of EM waves in the troposphere. He has been responsible for numerous research contracts, signed with both public entities and private companies. He is member of the Italian Society of Electromagnetism and IEEE Senior Member. He has several patents on antennas and has authored or co-authored more than 130 papers published in international journals or conference proceedings.

Monica Nicoli received the M.Sc. in Telecommunication Engineering (Hons.) and the Ph.D. in Electronic and Communication Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. She was Visiting Researcher with Uppsala University, Sweden, in 2001. She joined Politecnico di Milano as Assistant Professor in 2002. Her research interests are in the area of statistical signal processing and wireless communications, with focus on localization, smart mobility, cooperative and distributed systems for the Internet of Things/Vehicles. She has co-authored over 100 scientific publications, including journals, conferences, book chapters and patents. She is a co-recipient of the Best Paper Awards of the IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop 2018 and the IET ITS Journal 2014, a recipient of the 1999 Marisa Bellisario Award and the 1999 SPE-EAGE Best Thesis Award. She served as Associate Editor of the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking from 2010 to 2017, and as Lead Guest Editor for the Special Issue on Localization in Mobile Wireless and Sensor Networks in 2011.

Sanaz Kianoush is researcher at Italian National Research Council at the Institute of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering (IEIIT). She finished her PhD at University of Pavia in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering (2014). She was a postdoctoral researcher at IEIIT-CNR (2014-2021) and visiting researcher at Aalto University (2018) . Her research interests are in the areas of wireless communication systems, including statistical signal processing in wireless networks based on machine learning, deep and federated learning, radio based localization and activity recognition using various wireless technologies for Internet of Things (IoT) applications and smart factory.

Stefano Savazzi received the M.Sc. (Hons.) degree in telecommunication engineering and the Ph.D. (Hons.) degree in information technology from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2004 and 2008, respectively. In 2012, he joined the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) of Italy as a Researcher with the Institute of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering (IEIIT). He was a Visiting Researcher with Uppsala University in 2005, the University of California at San Diego in 2007, and Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation, Wien, in 2010. His current research interests include signal processing and networking design aspects for the industrial Internet of Things, cooperative and cognitive sensor networks for radio vision and localization. Dr. Savazzi is an Associate Editor of the Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal and the International Journal of Distributed Sensor Network. He won the Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award for best Ph.D. dissertation.

Umberto Spagnolini graduated as Dott.Ing.Elettronica (cum laude) from the Politecnico di Milano in 1988. Since 1990 he has been Faculty member of the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, where he is Professor in Signal Processing and Telecommunications. His research focuses on statistical signal processing, communication systems, and advanced topics in signal processing for remote sensing and wireless communication systems. Within these areas, he is author of more than 300 papers on peer-reviewed journals/conferences and patents. The specific areas of interest include channel estimation and space–time processing for wireless communication systems (GSM, UMTS, WiMAX, LTE, and now 5G), cooperative and distributed systems, parameter estimation/tracking and wavefield interpolation for UWB radar, oil exploration and remote sensing. He wrote a book Statistical Signal Processing in Engineering (Wiley Ed., 2018).

Vittorio Rampa received the Dott. Ing. Elettronica (cum laude) degree from the Politecnico di Milano (Polimi), Milano, Italy, in 1984. In 1986, he joined the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy. From 1999 to 2013, he has been Adjunct Professor at Polimi where he taught a course on software defined radio algorithms and architectures while in 2014, he taught also a course on radio localization systems. In 2001, he became Senior Researcher at the Institute of Electronics, Computer, and Telecommunication Engineering (IEIIT). From 2006 to 2014, he served as CTO in the CNR-Polimi spin-off Wisytech Srl. From 2011 to 2015, he was the responsible for the Milan site of the Institute IEIIT. His research interests include signal processing algorithms and architectures for wireless communication systems, virtual instrumentation techniques for test and verification of wireless systems, radio vision techniques for people localization and detection of people activities with wireless sensor networks and cellular systems. He published more than 60 papers on international and national conference proceedings and journals.