Omid Isfahani Alamdari received his Master's degree in Computer Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, with specialization in distributed systems. Currently, he is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Pisa and a member of KDDLab. His Ph.D. thesis is oriented to the processing and mining of big mobility data.

Dimitri Belli received his MS from the University of Pisa in 2016. Currently, he is an in pectore PhD in Computer Science at the University of Pisa. His research interests are in mobile distributed systems, Internet of Things and smart environments with a special focus on mobile crowdsensing and multi-access edge computing paradigms.

Mariasole Bondioli received the MSc in digital Humanities (2016) from the University of Pisa, where she is currently completing the PhD degree at the Department of Computer Science. Her current multidisciplinary research is oriented to develop innovative ICT supports to improve the daily life conditions of people with Autism Spectrum Disorder, approaching their diagnosis and therapy needs in a technology-based perspective.

Stefano Forti received the MSc in Computer Science and Networking (2016) jointly from the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies and the University of Pisa, where he is currently completing the PhD degree at the Department of Computer Science. His current research interests include Fog, Cloud, and service-oriented computing, and formal methods and algorithms.

Gabriele Iommazzo obtained his MSc in Data Science and Business Informatics at Università di Pisa, and then he moved to Ecole Polytechnique in France, where he started his Doctoral Degree. During his PhD he developed a methodology, based on machine learning and optimization techniques, to tackle the automatic algorithm configuration problem on mathematical programming solvers.

Lucia Nasti is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Pisa. Her current research interests include different topics from Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, focusing on modeling and simulation of complex systems. In particular, she is studying how to verify biological properties in Chemical Reaction Networks, studying their topological features.

Davide Neri received the MSc in Computer Science and Networking (2016) jointly from the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies and the University of Pisa, where he is currently completing the PhD degree at the Department of Computer Science. His research project focuses on propose methodologies for analysis and refactoring microservice-based architecture and for deploying them into container based virtualization.

Roberto Pellungrini received the MS degree in Business Informatics from Pisa University, Italy, in 2016. He is completing a PhD in Computer Science at the Computer Science Department of the University of Pisa since November 2016. His research interests include data mining, data privacy, privacy risk assessment and spatio-temporal data analysis.

Roberto Trani received the MSc in Computer Science (2016) from the University of Pisa, where he is completing a Ph.D. in Computer Science. Roberto is actually a research fellow at the High-Performance-Computing Laboratory in the National Research Council of Italy (ISTI-CNR). His research interests are information retrieval, high performance computing, algorithms and machine learning.