Giancarlo Sportelli is Associate Professor of the Department of Physics "E. Fermi", University of Pisa and senior member of the IEEE. He received his M.E. degree in Electronics Engineering from the Politecnico di Bari in 2006 with a thesis on GPU-accelerated PET reconstruction and his Ph.D. degree from the Telecommunications Engineering School of the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 2010 with a thesis on FPGA-based data acquisition systems for PET. He has been associate researcher of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics in Pisa since 2011 and Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of Physics, University of Pisa between 2012 and 2014 for the FULLBEAM project on PET monitoring for hadrontherapy. He is a member of the group of Medical Physics of the same Department since 2011. In 2014 he was visiting fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston (U.S.A.). He is co-PI of the UTOFPET project on smart PET detectors and PI of the SYNCT project on AI-enhanced PET data analysis and representation. His research interests include digital electronics, semiconductor technology for PET and PET/MR, and in-vivo PET monitoring in hadron therapy.