Donato Impedovo is Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Bari (IT). His research interests are in the fields of signal processing, pattern recognition, machine learning and biometrics. He is co-author of more than 130 articles on these fields in both international journals and conference proceedings. He received the “Distinction” award in May 2009 at the International Conference on Computer Recognition Systems (CORES — endorsed by IAPR), and the first prize of the Nereus-Euroavia Academic competition on GMES in October 2012. Professor Impedovo is also very involved in research transfer activities as well as in industrial research, he has managed more than 25 projects funded by public institutions as well as by private enterprises. Professor Impedovo is IEEE Access, IEEE OJ-CS and SN Computer Science Associate Editor. He has been appointed as 2020 Outstanding IEEE ACCESS Associate Editor. He serves as reviewer for many international journals including IEEE THMS, IEEE T-SMC, IEEE-TIFS, IEEE-TECT, Pattern Recognition and many others. He serves as Reviewer and Rapporteur for the EU projects evaluation. He was the General Co-Chair of the International Workshop on Smart Cities and Smart Enterprises (SCSE 2018), International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence with Application in Health (WAIAH 2018), Emergent Aspects in Handwritten Signature Processing (EAHSP 2013) and of the International Workshop on Image-Based Smart City Application (ISCA 2015). He has been member of the scientific committee and program committee of many international conferences in the field of computer science, pattern recognition and signal processing such as the ICPR and ICASSP. He is an IAPR member and IEEE senior member.