Francesco Bergadano obtained a Ph.D. degree from University of Turin. He has then worked as a visiting Professor at George Mason University (USA), an Associate Professor at University of Catania (Italy) and now a Full Professor at University of Turin (Italy). In the past, he has been a consultant for companies and public administrations, and a principal investigator in several national and EU-funded research projects. More recently he was an evaluator for EU H2020 proposals. He has authored more than 120 publications in the areas of Machine Learning and IT Security. His current research interests are in the area of Cybersecurity, including adaptive anomaly detection, continuous and biometric user authentication, security analytics, and mobile application security.