Prof. Dr. Gabriele Gianini is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy). He received a Ph.D. in Physics from the Universita degli Studi di Pavia, Italy, in 1996. He has held visiting positions at some international institutions, including INSA de Lyon (France), University of Passau (Germany), CERN (Geneva, Switzerland), Fermilab (Chicago, USA), CBPF (Brazil), and EBTIC/Khalifa University. He has been also an adjunct professor at the Free University of Bolzano (Italy) from 2005 to 2012. His research interests include machine learning, statistical and soft computing techniques applied to big data analytics and image processing, and quantitative modeling applied to process and protocol analysis and design, with a focus on game theoretic modeling.