Mauro Biagi is an Associate Professor at the Department of Information, Electronics and Telecommunications (DIET) Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He received the Laurea degree in communication engineering and the Ph.D. degree in information and communication theory from the Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. Since 2006, he has served as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information, Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, where, since 2015, he has been an Associate Professor. In 2010, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. He is responsible for international cooperation with colleagues in different countries and his research activities are in the field of visible light communications in the RGB-Comm Lab, where he advises Ph.D. students and postdocs leading projects in the area of optical wireless. He is also responsible for the research activities in the field of underwater communications in the AMOUR-AQUALab for activities involving both acoustic and optical communications. His research interests include MIMO systems, the Internet of Things, underwater communications, smart grids, and optical wireless systems in a very wide sense.