Francesco Dell’Olio (senior member, IEEE) received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from the Polytechnic University of Bari, Bari, Italy, in 2005 and 2010, respectively. He was with the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Polytechnic University of Bari, as an assistant professor in 2015, and was promoted to associate professor in 2022. He is a regular member of organizing and program committees for international conferences, including CLEO, SPIE Photonics West, and the IEEE Photonics Conference. He has co-authored two books published by Springer and World Scientific, and has published over 70 papers in international peer-reviewed journals. His research focuses on silicon photonics and nanophotonics, with particular regard for the modeling, design, and characterization of devices and integrated circuits for telecommunications and sensing. Recently, his interests have expanded to include electrochemical and colorimetric wearable sensors and miniature sensor-based embedded systems.