Prof. Giuseppe Pirlo (M’92–SM’13) received a degree in computer science (cum laude) from the Department of Computer Science, University of Bari, Italy, in 1986. Since 1986, he has been carrying out research in the field of computer science and neuroscience, signal processing, handwriting processing, automatic signature verification, biometrics, pattern recognition, and statistical data processing. In 1991, he was made an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science, University of Bari, where he is currently a Full Professor. He developed several scientific projects and has authored over 250 papers on international journals, scientific books, and proceedings. Prof. Pirlo is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Human–Machine Systems. He also serves as a Reviewer for many international journals including the IEEE T-PAMI, the IEEE T-FS, the IEEE T-SMC, the IEEE T-EC, the IEEE T-IP, the IEEE T-IFS, the Pattern Recognition, the IJDAR, and the IPL.