Sergio Saponara is a Full Professor of Electronics at the University of Pisa, where he earned a Master degree cum laude and Ph.D. degree. In 2012, he was a Marie Curie Research Fellow in IMEC. He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and co-founder of a special interest group on the IoT of both IEEE CAS and SP societies. He is the director of the I-CAS lab, of Crosslab Industrial IoT, and of the Summer School Enabling Technologies for IoT. He is an associate editor of several IEEE and Springer journals. He co-authored more than 300 scientific publications and 18 patents. He is the leader of many funded projects by the EU and by companies like Intel, Magneti Marelli, Ericsson, and PPC.