Biographical note

Anna Esposito received her Laurea Degree summa cum laude in Information Technology and Computer Science from Salerno University (1989), and the PhD Degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Napoli University Federico II (1995) with a thesis developed at MIT, Boston, USA. She was a postdoc at the International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies (IIASS), lecturer at Salerno University Dep of Physics (1996–2000), and research professor  (2000–2002) at Wright State University (WSU), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, OHIO, USA. She is a full professor in Cybernetics, Artificial Intelligence, and Multimodal Communication at Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli,” codirecting the activities of the Behavioral Cognitive Systems (BeCogSys) research group. She is an author/coauthor of 300+ peer-reviewed publications in journals, books, and conference proceedings, editor/co-editor of 32+ international books, and PI/CoPI of 10+ national and international funded projects.

Marcos Faundez-Zanuy received the B.Sc. degree (1993) and the Ph.D. degree (1998), both from the Polytechnic University of Catalunya. He is a full professor at ESUP Tecnocampus Mataro and heads the Signal Processing Group. His research interests lie in biometrics applied to security and health. He was the initiator and chairman of the EU COST Action 277 “Nonlinear Speech Processing,” and secretary of COST Action 2102 “Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication.” He is an author of 50+ papers indexed in ISI Journal citation reports, 100+ conference papers, 10+ books, and PI of 10 national and EU funded projects.

Francesco Carlo Morabito joined the University of Reggio Calabria, Italy, in 1989 where he serves now as a full professor (2001) of Electrical Engineering. He served as the president of the Electronic Engineering Course, as a member of the University’s Inner Evaluation Committee, as the dean of the Faculty of Engineering, as a deputy rector, and serves now as a vice-rector for Internationalization. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Italian Society of Electrical Engineering.

Eros G. Pasero is a professor of Electronics at Polytechnic of Turin since 1991. He was a visiting professor at ICSI Berkeley (1991), Tongji University Shanghai (2011, 2015), and Tashkent Polytechnic University, Uzbekistan. His interests are in artificial neural networks and electronic sensors. He heads the Neuronica Lab (1990) where wired and wireless sensors are developed for biomedical, environmental, automotive applications, and sensor signals are processed by neural networks. Prof. Pasero is the president of the Italian Society for Neural Networks (SIREN) and was a general chair of IJCNN2000, SIRWEC2006, and WIRN 2015. He received several awards and holds five international patents. He supervised 10 international Ph.D. and 100 Master theses and is an author of 100+ international publications.

Gennaro Cordasco received the Laurea degree summa cum laude (in 2002) and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science (2006) from the University of Salerno (Italy). He has been a research-scholar at the Theoretical Aspect of Parallel and Distributed Systems (TAPADS) Lab, in the Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst MA, USA, doing research activity under the supervision of the Distinguished Professor Arnold L. Rosenberg (From March to November 2005). Gennaro Cordasco is an associate professor at the Università della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" (Italy) and member of the editorial board of COGNITIVE COMPUTATION and  Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing. He is codirecting the activities of the Behavioral Cognitive Systems (BeCogSys) research group.