Sergio Barbarossa is a Full Professor at Sapienza University of Rome and a Senior Research Fellow at the Sapienza School for Advanced Studies (SSAS). He is an IEEE Fellow and a EURASIP Fellow. He received the Technical Achievements Award from the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) and the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award in 2000, 2014, and 2020. He has worked as a systems engineer at Selenia S.p.A., as a researcher at the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, and as a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and the University of Minnesota. He has been the scientific coordinator of several European projects on information and communication technologies. He is currently the scientific coordinator of a national project called “Network Intelligence” and a cluster of projects called “Make Artificial Intelligence Distributed and Networked,” withinr the Next Generation EU framework. He is the author of about 300 scientific publications, with more than 20,000 citations. His main current research interests include semantic communications, knowledge representation in artificial intelligence, distributed machine learning, and 6G networks. He has been included by Stanford University in the “World's Top 2% Scientists” list.