Memberships | Awards | International Collaborations | Visiting Exp. | Academic Appointments
Essentials (descending chronological order)
- [Mar. 2025-Today] Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Oulu, Finland.
- [Oct. 2018-Today] Associate Professor at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Italy.
- [2007-2018] Assistant Professor/Full Researcher at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Italy.
- [2001-2004] Research scientist without tenure at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Italy.
- [2002] Ph.D. in Telematics and Information Society at the University of Florence, Department of Information Engineering, Italy.
- [2000] 12-months visiting research scientist at the Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), University of Oulu, Finland.
- [1998] "Laurea" (Master Degree) in Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Florence, Faculty of Engineering, Italy.
Honors and Awards (descending chronological order)
- [ETSI Ambassador] Nominated as ETSI (European Telecommunication Standard Institute) Ambassador to advocate for ETSI standards and initiatives, connecting research, industry, and innovation ecosystems to enhance participation in standardization activities and accelerate the adoption of emerging digital technologies, since July 2026.
- [Best Paper Award] S. Caputo, A. Vizziello, A. Coviello, M. Magarini, S. Jayousi, P. Savazzi, and L. Mucchi, "Biometric Authentication in Galvanic Coupling Communications: A Physical Layer Approach for Secure Wearable Medical Systems", International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets), Okayama, Japan, 2-4 Dec 2025.
- [Best Paper Award] S. Caputo, A. Vizziello, A. Coviello, M. Magarini, S. Jayousi, P. Savazzi, and L. Mucchi, "Secret Key Extraction using Galvanic Coupling in Wireless Body Area Networks", IEEE 19th International Symposium of Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT), Firenze, Italy, 28-30 May 2025.
- [IEEE Distinguished Lecturer] IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer 2025-2026.
- [IEEE distinguished keynote speaker] Certificate of appreciation as distinguished keynote speaker at the IEEE eHealth Technical Committee (TC) PhD School, Genova, Italy, 15-17 Oct 2024. Article on IEEE Global Communications Newsletter, Jan 2026.
- [Best Paper Award] S. Jayousi, C. Barchielli, M. Alaimo, S. Guarducci, S. Caputo, M. Paffetti, P. Zoppi and L. Mucchi, "Improving Community Healthcare Assistance Through an Innovative and Multidisciplinary Systemic Approach", 2024 18th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology (ISMICT), London, UK, May 15-17, 2024.
- Certificate of appreciation as TPC Chair & Steering Committee Member in recognition of your valuable contribution to the 15th International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets), 21 Oct. 2020.
- [Best Paper Award] P. Lucattini, S. Jayousi, A. Martinelli, L. Mucchi, and G. Lombardi, "Social Inclusion for Children with Disabilities: The Role of ICT in Play and Entertainment Activities", 14th EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets), Florence, Italy, 2-3 Oct. 2019.
- Certificate of appreciation as TPC Co-Chair in recognition to valuable contribution to 13th International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets), Oct 2018.
- Certificate of appreciation as panel speaker in recognition to valuable contribution to 13th International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets), Oct 2018.
- Successfully contribution to standardization work in the field of Smart Body Area Network Performance and Coexistence Verification, European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), Sept 2017.
- Oustanding Speech as Panelist, "Challenges and Future Directions in Medical Device Regulatory Science", International Symposium on Medical ICT (ISMICT), March 2016.
Memberships and Assignments (ascending chronological order)
- Permanent member (since 2001) of the technical committee of the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED).
- Senior member (since 2012) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Member (since 2009) of the IEEE Communications and Information Security Technical Committee (CISTC) since 2009.
- Member (since 2013) of the technical committee of the ETSI SmartBAN standardization group.
- Rapporteur (2013-2017) of the work item on "Measurements and modelling of SmartBAN Radio Frequency (RF) environment".
- Rapporteur (since 2017) of the work item on "Comparative analysis between SmartBAN and other short-range standards".
- Rapporteur (since 2018) of the work item on "Security, privacy and trust: state of the art, use cases, treats and requirements analysis".
- Associate Member (since 2013) of National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Eletronics, Information and Telecommunications Engineering (IEIIT).
- Associate Member (since 2013) of EURECON (European Association for Communications & Networking).
- Scientific coordinator (since 2014) of the reserach and teaching agreement with the Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), University of Oulu, Dept. of Communications Engineering.
- Scientific coordinator (since 2014) of the reserach and teaching agreement with the Yokohama National University (Japan), Division of Physics, Electrical & Computer Engineering.
- Member (2014) of the International Steering Committee of ISMICT (International Symposium on Medical ICT).
- Member (since 2015) of the teachers' board of the Ph.D. Course in Information Engineering, Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Italy.
- Leader (2016) of the ETSI Specialist Task Force 511: SmartBAN Performance and Coexistence Verification (PCV). [website]
- Scientific coordinator (since 2017) of the "VisiCoRe" (Visible Light Communications) Research Laboratory, University of Florence, Italy.
- Member (since 2015) of the board of the PhD Program in Information Engineering, University of Florence.
- Chairman (2017-2020) of the Cyber Security sub-committee of the International Standards Committee (ISC) on Indoor Positioning Indoor Navigation (IPIN).
- Member (2017) of the "ICT for Healthcare" commission for the strategic specialization agenda of the Tuscany region.
- Scientific coordinator (since 2019) of the "MedICT" (Medical and Health Informationa and Communication Technology) Research Laboratory, University of Florence, Italy.
- Member (since 2019) of the Florence Center for Data Science.
- Associate Member (since 2019) of National Research Council (CNR), National Institute of Optics (INO).
- Member (since 2020) of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Body Area Networks (BODYNETS).
- Fellow Member (since 2020) of the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI).
- Expert member (since 2021) of the Italian Ministry of Health.
- Member (since 2021) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
- Member (since 2021) of the One6G Association.
- Member (since 2021) of the scientific technical committee of the Centre of Excellence on Cybersecurity (C3T) of the Tuscany region.
- Member (since 2022) of the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action CA22168 - Physical layer security for trustworthy and resilient 6G systems (6G-PHYSEC).
- Chair (since 2022) of the Smart Body Area Network (SmartBAN) technical committee of the European Telecommunication Standard Institute (ETSI).
- Member (since 2024) of the Florence Ageing Research Center (Age Florence).
- Funding member of the IEEE Internet-of-Wearable-Things (IoWT) working group, Europe and UK area.
Academic Appointments (ascending chronological order)
- Responsible (since 2020) for the University of Florence of the Health Focus Gruop of ARTES 4.0
- Member (since 2020) for the University of Florence of the Horizon EU Cluster on "Security for society"
- Referent Docent (2012-2021) of the Master degree on Sciences of Spectacles
International Collaborations
- MIT, Boston, USA (Prof. Moe Win);
- Institut für Kommunikationstechnik, Hannover University, Germany (Prof. Thomas Kaiser, Dr. Andreas Wilzeck);
- Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), Oulu, Finland (Proff. Matti Latva-aho, Jari Iinatti, Markku Juntti, Dr. Matti Hamalainen);
- VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Oulu, Finland (Dr. Marcos Katz);
- Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfhart (DLR), Munich, Germany (Dr. Sandro Scalise, Balazs Matuz);
- Research group on Cryptology and Information Security (GiCSI), Institute of Applied Physics – Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain (Prof. Agustin Martin);
- European Joint Research Center (JRC), Ispra, Italy (Dr. A. Rabbachin).;
- School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom (Dr. Yifan Chen);
- South University of Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen, China (Prof. Yifan Chen).
- Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong (Prof. Kaibin Huang).
Visiting Experience (descending chronological order)
- Wireless Information and Network Sciences Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA - Visiting Researcher, Mar. 2016
- Wireless Information and Network Sciences Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA - Visiting Researcher, Sept. 2013
- Wireless Information and Network Sciences Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA - Visiting Researcher, May. 2010
- Wireless Information and Network Sciences Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA - Visiting Researcher, Sept. 2006
- Center forWireless Communications (CWC)
University of Oulu, Finland - Visiting Researcher, Jan. 2000 – Dec. 2000