User:Giancarlo Fortino

Giancarlo Fortino (born 1971 in Paola - CS) is a Full Professor of Computer Engineering at the Department of Informatics, Modelling, Electronics and Systems (DIMES) of the University of Calabria (UniCal), Rende (CS), Italy. He has a Ph.D. degree and Laurea (MSc+BSc) degree in Computer Engineering from UniCal. He currently teaches "Development of IoT Systems" in the MSc degree courses of Computer Engineering and Electronics Engineering of DIMES.

He is High-end Foreign Expert of China (term 2015-2018), Adjunct and Guest Professor at the Wuhan University of Technology (China), High-end Expert of HUST (China), CAS PIFI Visiting Scientist at Shenzhen (2019-2021), and Associated Senior Research Fellow at the Italian National Research Council - ICAR Institute. He has been also Visiting Researcher and Professor at the International Computer Science Institute (Berkeley, USA, 97-99) and at the Queensland University of Technology (Australia, 2009), respectively.

He is in the list of Top Italian Scientists (TIS) by VIA-academy, with h-index=38 and 5700+ citations according to GS.

He is the director of the SPEME (Smart, Pervasive and Mobile Systems Engineering) Lab at DIMES, Unical and co-director of two joint-labs on IoT technologies established with Wuhan University of Technology and Shanghai Maritime University, respectively.

His main research interests include:


 * Internet of Things computing and technology;
 * Agent-based computing;
 * Body area networks;
 * Human-machine systems;
 * Wireless sensor networks;
 * Pervasive and cloud computing;
 * Mobile health systems;
 * Multimedia networks.

He participated to many local, national and international research projects and currently is the deputy coordinator and scientific & technical project manager of the EU-funded (8M) H2020 INTER-IoT project. He authored about 400 publications in journals, conferences and books.

He chaired about 100 Int'l conferences/workshops as co-chair, organized about 50 special issues in well-known ISI-impacted Int'l Journals, and participated in the TPC of about 500 conferences.

He is the founding editor in chief of the IEEE Book Series on “Human-Machine Systems” and of the Springer Book Series on "Internet of Things: Technology, Communications and Computing”, and currently serves (as associate editor) in the editorial board of:


 * IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing;
 * IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems;
 * IEEE IoT Journal, IEEE Sensors Journal;
 * IEEE Access, IEEE SMC Magazine;
 * Journal of Networks and Computer Applications;
 * Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence;
 * Information Fusion, and others.

He is the recipient of the 2014 Andrew P. Sage Best SMC Transactions Paper award.

He is co-founder and CEO of SenSysCal S.r.l. (2010), a spin-off of UniCal, developing innovative IoT-based systems for e-health and domotics, and more general smart environments.

He is the Chair of the IEEE SMC Italian Chapter (since 2016), Member-at-large of the IEEE SMCS BoG (2018-2020), Member of the IEEE Press Board of Directors (2016-2018), and founding chair of the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on “Interactive and Wearable Computing and Devices” (2015).