Prof. Chiara Petrioli has received the Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Rome University “La Sapienza,” Italy, in 1998. She is currently a full professor at University of Rome La Sapienza Computer Science Department, where she leads the Sensor Networks and Embedded Systems  laboratory (SENSES lab). She also leads the Cyber Physical System lab of “La Sapienza” center for Cyber Intelligence and Information Security, and is a founding partner of “La Sapienza” spinoff WSENSE S.r.l. Her research interests focus on the design and optimization of wireless, embedded and cyber physical systems. Prof. Petrioli is member of the steering committee of ACM SenSys, program co-chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2016, workshop co-chair of ACM MobiCom 2014, general chair of ACM SenSys 2013. She has been member of  the steering committee and associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, member of the executive committee of ACM SIGMOBILE, and has been program co-chair of leading conferences in the field such as ACM MobiCom and IEEE SECON. Prof. Petrioli has published over a hundred papers in prominent international journals and conferences (h-index 26, i-10 index: 64, over 3030 citations). She has also been PI of over twenty national and international research projects, and is serving as coordinator of two EC projects (FP7 projects GENESI and SUNRISE). She is member of “La Sapienza” spinoff committee, and regularly serves as reviewer for the European Commission. Prof. Petrioli was a Fulbright scholar. More details on her recent activities can be found here.