We must endeavour to ensure that the benefits of new digital technologies are put at the service of all human individuals and communities, especially those who are most disadvantaged and vulnerable (BENEDICT XVI).

Bio Sketches

Giuseppe Anastasi is a Professor and the Head of the Department of Information Engineering (DII) at the University of Pisa, Italy. Also, he has been the Director of the Smart Cities & Communities National Lab, supported by the Italian University Consortium for Informatics (CINI).

His scientific interests include Distributed Systems, Internet of Things, Sustainable Computing, and ICT for Smart Cities/Industries. He is a co-editor of two books, namely Advanced Lectures in Networking (LNCS 2497, Springer, 2002) and Methodologies and Technologies for Networked Enterprises (LNCS 7200, Springer, 2012). He has published about 150 research papers in the area of computer networking and distributed computing. His publications have received, overall, more than 7000 citations, according to Google Scholar (H-index=38).

Currently, he is leading the "CrossLab" project, which aims at structuring six new interdisciplinary and integrated laboratories (CrossLabs) for Industry 4.0 at the University of Pisa. He has been the (founding) director of the CINI Smart Cities & Communities National Lab, a nation-wide distributed laboratory consisting of 29 nodes (local labs) located at different Italian universities. He has co-founded and directed the Pervasive Computing & Networking Laboratory (PerLab) at the University of Pisa. Finally, he has contributed to many research programs funded by both national and international institutions.

Giuseppe is currently serving as: Steering Committee member of the IEEE SMARTCOMP conference; member of the Board of Directors at the Italian National University Consortium for Informatics (CINI); member of the Scientific Committee at the CNR Department of ICT, Energy and Transports.

Previously, he has served as: Area Editor of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC, 2007-16); Associate Editor of Sustainable Computing (SUSCOM, 2010-15); Area Editor of Computer Communications (ComCom, 2008-10); General Chair of IEEE SMARTCOMP 2018 and IEEE WoWMoM 2005; Program Chair of IEEE SMARTCOMP 2016, IEEE MSN 2015, IFIP/IEEE SustainIT 2012, IEEE PerCom 2010 and IEEE WoWMoM 2008; Vice Program Chair of IEEE MASS 2007. He has been the co-founder of a number of successful international workshops and conferences.

Giuseppe received the M.Sc. degree in Electronics Engineering, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering, both from the University of Pisa, in 1990 and 1995, respectively.

Invited Talks

• IEEE 802.15.4e Standard: a Building Block for the Internet of (Relevant) Things, Invited Talk, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, USA, May 17, 2016
• Towards the Internet of Relevant Things: the IEEE 802.15.4e Standard, Invited Tutorial, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2016), Pisa, Italy, April 4-8, 2016
• Technology Transfer in the Area of Smart Cities. The CINI Smart Cities National Lab, Invited Talk, Smart City 360°Summit, Bratislava, Slovakia, October 14-16, 2015
• From IEEE 802.15.4 to IEEE 802.15.4e: Another Step towards the Internet of (Relevant) Things, Invited Talk, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, May 16, 2014
• A Localized De-synchronization Algorithm for Periodic Data Reporting in IEEE 802.15.4 WSNs, Hong Kong Politechnic University, April 27, 2013.
• Energy Efficient BitTorrent for Green P2P File Sharing, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, July 5, 2012
• Energy Conservation in Wireless Sensor Networks with Mobile Elements, COST IC0804 Training School on Energy Efficiency in Large-Scale Distributed Systems, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, April 27, 2012.
• Energy Conservation in Wireless Sensor Networks, COST IC0804 Training School on Energy Efficiency in Large-Scale Distributed Systems, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, April 26, 2012
• Energy-efficient and Timely Node Discovery in Wireless Sensor Networks with Mobile Nodes, Invited Talk, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, April 7, 2011
• Reliable Data Delivery in Sparse WSNs with Multiple Mobile Sinks, Invited talk, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, April 6, 2011
• Energy Efficient BitTorrent for Green P2P File Sharing, Hong Kong Politechnic University, April 1, 2011
• Reliable and Energy-Efficient Data Delivery in Sparse WSNs with Multiple Mobile Sinks, Invited Talk, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA, September 8, 2010
• Emerging Techniques for Energy Management in Practical Wireless Sensor Networks, Keynote Speech, International Workshop on Agent Technology for Sensor Networks (ATSN 2008), Estoril, Portugal, May 13, 2008