Antonio Puliafito is a full professor of computer engineering at the University of Messina, Italy. His interests include distributed systems, networking, IoT, and Cloud computing. He has acted as an expert in ICT for the European Commission since 1998. He participated in several European projects, such as Reservoir, Vision, CloudWave, and Beacon. He has contributed in the development of several tools, such as WebSPN, ArgoPerformance, and Stack4Things. He is the director of the CINI Italian Lab on “Smart Cities & Communities”. He is in charge of the #SmartME crowdfunding initiative, to develop a smart city infrastructure in the city of Messina. He is the author and co-author of more than 400 scientific papers.