received the Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Polytechnic of Milan in 1996. From 1997 to 1998 he was Research Engineer at the UNIPD Faculty of Medicine, from 1999 to 2004 he was Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering. Since 2005, he is Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at DEI, where he is in charge of teaching “Medical Informatics” and “Biological Data Analysis”, both for the MSc Degree in Bioengineering. At the time of writing, Dr. Sparacino also serves as Vice-director of the PhD Course in Information Engineering (and Coordinator of its Bioengineering track). His research expertise is on deconvolution and parameter estimation techniques for the study of physiological systems, linear and nonlinear biological time-series analysis, biological data modeling, EEG and fNIRS signal processing, algorithms for continuous glucose monitoring sensors (calibration, denoising and prediction). According to Scopus, he authored 97 journal papers and 9 international patent applications (H-index: 26). Personal homepage: http://www.dei.unipd.it/~gianni/