Prof. Stefano Mariani is currently a Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Politecnico di Milano. He received his MSc degree with Honours in Civil (Structural) Engineering in 1995, and his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering in 1999, both at the Politecnico di Milano. His research interests include reliability analysis of MEMS, micromechanics of composite materials, machine and deep learning tools for health monitoring, optimal placement of sensing systems, and Kalman and particle filtering. He has co-authored around 100 peer-reviewed journal publications and one book on the mechanics of microsystems.