Dr. Francesco Di Nardo is Staff Scientist at the Department of Information Engineering, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy. He completed his PhD studies in Artificial Intelligence Systems at the Università Politecnica delle Marche in 2005. He achieved his National Scientific Qualification (ASN) for the Academic Position of Associate Professor in the domain of Bioengineering in 2018 and Physical Activity and Sport Science in 2017. He has published more than 150 publications, including full papers in referred international journals, chapters in international books, and conference papers, and serves as Associate Editor for the journals Scientific Data and Innovation and Research in BioMedical engineering (IRBM). His teaching disciplines include models and control of biological systems and medical informatics, and his interests include biomedical signal and image processing, artificial intelligence for interpretation of biomedical signals and images, marine and underwater robotics, identification and modelling, and educational robotics.