Marco Balsi received his PhD in Electronic Engineering from the University of Rome “La Sapienza" in 1996. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Engineering, Electronics, and Telecommunications of “La Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy. He has obtained and published results in cellular neural network theory and applications, artificial vision, robotics, remote sensing and biomedical signal processing and interpretation, antipersonnel mine detection, and circuits for piezoelectromechanical structures. He has more than 100 international peer-reviewed publications, including 28 in journals; two book chapters; and three patents. He is a member and co-founder of Oben, an academic spin-off company working on aerial survey services based on RPAS (drones) and embedded systems. His research interests include remote sensing data processing and interpretation, object and feature detection, learning systems, sensors for remote sensing, and embedded systems.