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Full professor

University of Calabria (Italy)

Giancarlo Fortino (IEEE Fellow 2022) is Full Professor of Computer Engineering at the Dept of Informatics, Modeling, Electronics, and Systems of the University of Calabria (Unical), Italy. He received a PhD in Computer Engineering from Unical in 2000. He is also distinguished professor at Wuhan University of Technology (China), high-end expert of many Chinese universities, including Huazhong University of Science and Technology, South China University of Technology, Shanghai Maritime University, etc., senior research fellow at the Italian ICAR-CNR Institute, CAS PIFI Group international fellow at SIAT (Shenzhen), and Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Sensors Council, SMC society, and IoT TC. He was also visiting researcher at ICSI, Berkeley (USA), in 1997 and 1999 and visiting professor at Queensland University of technology in 2009. At Unical, he is the chair of the PhD School in ICT, the director of the Postgraduate Master course in AI-driven Radiomics, and the director of the SPEME lab, the Radioamica lab, as well as co-chair of Joint labs on IoT established between Unical and WUT, SMU and HZAU Chinese universities, respectively, and a Joint lab on AI-driven Robotics established with indian istitutions. Fortino is currently the scientific responsible of the Unical group of the Italian CINI National Laboratory of Digital Health and of the Unical group of the CINI Cyber Humanities WG. He is Highly Cited Researcher 2020–2025 in Computer Science by Clarivate (the only Italian professor currently ranked). He had 25+ highly cited papers in WoS, and h-index=88 with 34000+ citations in Google Scholar. His research interests include wearable computing systems, e-Health, Internet of Things, and agent-based computing. He is author of 750+ papers in international journals, conferences and books. He is (founding) series editor of IEEE Press Book Series on Human-Machine Systems and EiC of Springer Internet of Things series and AE of premier international journals such as IEEE TASE (senior editor), IEEE TAFFC-CS, IEEE THMS, IEEE T-AI, IEEE SJ, IEEE JBHI, IEEE OJEMB, IEEE OJCS, Information Fusion, BDCC, etc. He chaired many international workshops and conferences (130+), was involved in a huge number of international conferences/workshops (700+) as IPC member, is/was guest-editor of many special issues (80+). He is co-founder and CEO of SenSysCal S.r.l., a Unical spinoff focused on innovative IoT systems, and recently co-founder and vice-CEO of the spin-off Bigtech S.r.l, focused on big data, AI and IoT technologies. Fortino is the VP of Cybernetics (term 2026–2027) of the IEEE SMCS, member of the IEEE SMCS ExCom, and former chair of the IEEE SMCS Italian Chapter.