Prof. Giancarlo Fortino

Giancarlo Fortino (IEEE Fellow 2022) is a Full Professor of Computer Engineering at the Department of Informatics, Modeling, Electronics, and Systems of the University of Calabria (Unical), Italy. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Unical in 2000. He is also a Distinguished Professor at the Wuhan University of Technology and Huazhong Agricultural University (China), a high-end expert at HUST (China), a Senior Research Fellow at the Italian ICAR-CNR Institute, a CAS PIFI visiting scientist at SIAT–Shenzhen, and a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Sensors Council. At Unical, he is the Rector’s delegate for Int’l relations, the chair of the PhD School in ICT, the director of the Postgraduate Master's course in INTER-IoT, and the director of the SPEME lab. He is also co-chair of Joint labs on IoT established between Unical and WUT, SMU, and HZAU Chinese universities, respectively. He is currently the scientist responsible for the Digital Health group of the Italian CINI National Laboratory at Unical. He is a Highly Cited Researcher in 2020–2023 in Computer Science according to Clarivate. His research interests include wearable computing systems, e-health, Internet of Things, and agent-based computing, and he co-authored of more than 650 publications including top-level journals, conferences, and book series.  He is the co-founder and CEO of SenSysCal S.r.l. Fortino is currently the Associate VP in Cybernetics of the IEEE SMC Society.