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Christian Hirsch is an independent researcher focusing on IoT solutions, hardware prototyping and development, especially based on near-range Wi-Fi and BLE and low-power Narrowband-IoT and LTE-M cellular. He has been a University Assistant at the Institute of Computer Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology until February 2022.
Luca Davoli is a non-tenured Assistant Professor at the Internet of Things (IoT) Laboratory, Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Parma, Italy. He obtained his Dr. Ing. degree in computer engineering and his Ph.D. in information technologies at the Department of Information Engineering of the same university, in 2013 and 2017, respectively. His research interests focus on IoT, Pervasive Computing, Big Stream and Software-Defined Networking.
Radu Grosu received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, in 1994. He is currently a Professor and the Head of the Cyber-Physical Group, Faculty of Informatics, Vienna University of Technology. Before receiving his appointment at the Vienna University of Technology, he was an Associate Professor with the Computer Science Department, State University of New York, Stony Brook, where he co-directed the Concurrent-Systems Laboratory and co-founded the Systems-Biology Laboratory. He was a Research Associate with the Computer Science Department, University of Pennsylvania. He is a Research Professor with the Computer Science Department, State University of New York. His research interests include modeling, analysis and control of cyber–physical, and biological systems. His application focus include green operating systems, mobile ad-hoc networks, automotive systems, the Mars rover, cardiac-cell networks, and genetic regulatory networks. He is a member of the International Federation of Information Processing WG 2.2. He was the recipient of the National Science Foundation Career Award, the State University of New York Research Foundation Promising Inventor Award, the ACM Service Award.
Gianluigi Ferrari received the Laurea (summa cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Parma, Parma, Italy, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. Since 2002, he has been with the University of Parma, where he is currently an Associate Professor of telecommunications and also the coordinator of the Internet of Things (IoT) Laboratory, Department of Engineering and Architecture. His current research interests include signal processing, advanced communication and networking, and IoT and smart systems.
He was with the Institute of Computer Engineering of the Vienna University of Technology when contributing to this work.