Simone Milani was born in Camposampiero, Italy, in 1978. He received a Laurea degree in telecommunication engineering and a Ph.D. degree in electronics and telecommunication engineering from the University of Padova, Padova, Italy, in 2002 and 2007, respectively. He was a Visiting Ph.D. Student with the University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, in 2006. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the University of Udine, Udine, Italy, the University of Padova, and the Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, from 2007 to 2013. He has been with STMicroelectronics, Agrate, Italy. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova. His research interests include digital signal processing, image and video coding, 3D video processing and compression, joint source-channel coding, robust video transmission, distributed source coding, multiple description coding, and multimedia forensics.