Adriano Mancini obtained his Ph.D. degree in intelligent artificial systems from the Department of Information Engineering (DII), Universitá Politecnica delle Marche, in 2010. He currently holds an Assistant Professor position with the DII, Universitá Politecnica delle Marche. His research interests include mobile robotics for assisted living, machine learning, image processing, and geographic information systems. He is a coauthor of more than 120 international studies in his research fields and is involved in different EU projects and technological transfer projects.