Dr. Roberto Garello graduated cum laude with a degree in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in February 1990, completing a thesis on cryptography. He continued his studies at the same institution, earning a PhD in electrical engineering in 1994 with a dissertation on Trellis Coded Modulation. During his doctoral studies, he spent six months at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and at ETH Zürich. From November 1998 to October 2001, Dr. Garello served as an associate professor at the University of Ancona. Since November 2001, he has held the position of associate professor in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications at Politecnico di Torino. He coordinated the Communication Engineering degree program there from 2006 to 2008. In 2017, he was an adjunct professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of California State University, Los Angeles. A member of the IEEE since 1990, Dr. Garello was appointed Senior Member in 2003. His research primarily focuses on communication systems, space links, and channel coding.