Mauro Giacomini (M’06) was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1963. He received the master’s degree in electronics engineering from the University of Genoa, Genoa, in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree in bioengineering from the Polytechnic of Milan, Italy, in 1993. He is an Aggregate Professor of Bioengineering with the Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and System Engineering, University of Genoa. His research interests include medical informatics with special reference to application of standards in medical data treatment, medical knowledge-based systems, and to the development of data bases of importance in medicine and biology; microbial classification methods based on artificial neural networks and studies on antibiotic-resistance; and the study of biological systems by modeling, data, and signal analysis. He has been involved in more than 20 projects financed by the EU since framework III; he has authored over 60 papers in international referred journals over the past 20 years and about 350 published works. He teaches biomedical engineering and bioengineering courses of study and some medical specialization courses for Doctors. Prof. Giacomini is a member of the IEEE EMBS, the Center of Excellence for Biomedical Research–University of Genoa, HL7 Italy Board, and the Associazione Italiana d’ Informatica Medica–European Federation for Medical Informatics. He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions On Biomedical Engineering from 2006 to 2012. In 2014, he co-founded Heathtropy s.r.l.