Francesco Gargiulo received his MSc degree (cum laude) in telecommunication engineering and his PhD degree in information and automatic engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, in 2006 and 2009, respectively. He is currently a technological researcher with the Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking, National Research Council, Italy (ICAR-CNR). He has been involved in different national and European projects. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles in international journals and conference proceedings. His current research interests include e-Health, Big Data Analytics, Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and Deep Learning. He has been on the program committee of international conferences and workshops and, moreover, is currently a member of the editorial board of some international journals.