Giovanni Merlino is Associate Professor in Computer Engineering at the Department of Engineering, University of Messina. His research interests currently include IoT for Industry 4.0, Fog computing and the Web of smart things, cyber-physical systems modeled as software-defined infrastructure, smart contracts for auditable access control and delegation, and mobile crowdsensing. He has co-authored over 100 papers, and been involved in several EU projects. He has co-founded an academic spin-off company, smartme.IO, and is holder of a patent. He is IEEE/ACM member.