Alberto Signori received the B.Sc degree in information engineering and the M.Sc degree in telecommunication engineering from the University of Padova, Padua, Italy, in 2015 and 2017, respectively. In January 2018, he joined the SIGNET research group, within the Department of Information Engineering of the same university, as a research engineering. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in information engineering, at the University of Padova, under the supervision of Prof. M. Zorzi. His current research interests include the design, the analysis and the implementation of novel communication protocols and architectures for underwater networks, and network security for underwater communications. His current work involves software development for the DESERT Underwater framework. He currently collaborates with the MarTERA RoboVaaS project and with the European Defence Agency project SALSA. In 2019, he received the Best Student Paper Award at International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (WUWNet). In 2020, he received the Best Paper Award at IEEE INFOCOM International Workshop on Wireless Communications and Networking in Extreme Environments (WCNEE).