Introduction

Ruggero Donida Labati received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy, in 2013. Since 2022, he has been an Associate Professor with the Università degli Studi di Milano. He has been a Visiting Researcher with Michigan State University, MI, USA. His original results have been published in more than 80 papers in international journals, proceedings of international conferences, books, and book chapters. His research interests include biometric systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning, signal and image processing, pattern analysis and recognition, and theory and industrial applications of neural networks. He is Chair of the EURASIP  BForSec Technical Area Committee. Dr. Donida Labati has been an Associate Editor of Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (Springer) and is currently an Associate Editor of the EURASIP Journal on Information Security (Springer).

Angelo Genovese received the Ph.D. degree in computer Science from the Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2014. He has been an Associate Professor in Computer Science with the Università degli Studi di Milano since 2022. He has been a Visiting Researcher with the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. Original results have been published in over 60 papers in international journals, proceedings of international conferences, books, and book chapters. His current research interests include signal and image processing, three-dimensional reconstruction, artificial intelligence for medical imaging, industrial and environmental monitoring systems, and design methodologies and algorithms for self-adapting systems. He is an IEEE Senior Member. Dr. Genovese is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (Springer) and Array (Elsevier).

Vincenzo Piuri received the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 1989. He is a Full Professor of computer engineering at the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy, since 2000. He has also been an Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and a Visiting Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, USA, and a Visiting Researcher at the George Mason University, USA. His research interests include artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, intelligent systems, machine learning, pattern analysis and recognition, signal and image processing, biometrics, intelligent measurement systems, industrial applications, digital processing architectures, fault tolerance, dependability, and cloud computing infrastructures. Original results have been published in more than 400 articles in international journals, proceedings of international conferences, books, and book chapters. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Distinguished Scientist of ACM and a Senior Member of INNS. He is IEEE Region 8 Director (2023— 24). He has been IEEE Vice President for Technical Activities (2015), IEEE Director, President of the IEEE Systems Council and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Vice President for Education of the IEEE Biometrics Council, Vice President for Publications of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society and the IEEE Systems Council, and Vlce President for Membership of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. He has been the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Systems Journal (2013-19) and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, and IEEE Access.