Maria Cristina Piccirilli (M’00) received the Laurea degree in electronic engineering from the University of Florence, Florence, Italy, in 1987.,From 1988 to 1990, she was a Research Fellow at the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy. From 1990 to 1998, she was a Researcher with the Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Florence, where she has been an Associate Professor of network theory since 1998 and is currently with the Department of Information Engineering. His current research interests include circuit theory, analog filters, fault diagnosis of electronic circuits, neural networks, and symbolic analysis of analog circuits. Prof. Piccirilli is a member of IEEE and AEIT.