Alessandro Piva is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Florence. He is also the Head of the FORLAB, the Multimedia Forensics Laboratory, and the University of Florence. His research interests include information forensics and security and image and video processing. In the first topic, he is interested in data hiding, signal processing in the encrypted domain, and image and video forensic techniques. In the second area, he is interested in the design of image and video processing and analysis techniques for cultural heritage, medical, and industrial applications. In the above research topics, he is the co-author of more than 60 articles published in international journals and 130 papers published in international conference proceedings.