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Fulvio Gini – short bio Fulvio Gini (Fellow IEEE) received the Doctor Engineer (cum laude) and the Research Doctor degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 1990 and 1995, respectively. In 1993, he joined the Department of Ingegneria dell'Informazione of the University of Pisa, where he is Full Professor since 2006. Prof. Gini is the Deputy Head of the Department since November 2016. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (AES) (2007-present) and the Elsevier Signal Processing journal (2006-present). He is the Specialty Chief Editor for the “Radar Signal Processing” section of the journals Frontiers in Signal Processing (2021-present). He was co-recipient of the 2001 and 2012 IEEE AES Society's Barry Carlton Award for Best Paper published in the IEEE T-AES and of the 2020 EURASIP JASP Best Paper Award. He was recipient of the 2022 IEEE AESS Warren White Award for Excellence in Radar Engineering, the 2020 EURASIP Meritorious Service Award, the 2003 IEE Achievement Award, and the 2003 IEEE AES Society Nathanson Award. He is the IEEE AES Society Awards Chair. He has been a member of the IEEE AES Society Board of Governors (BoG) (2017-2022) and member of the IEEE SP Society BoG (2021-2023). He was the EURASIP President (2013-2016). He was the General co-Chair of ICASSP 2014. He authored or co-authored 13 book chapters, 170 journal papers, 185 conference papers, and 2 national patents. H-index: 54, 11617 citations (source: Google Scholar). SERVICES TO PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY • IEEE Member since 1992; Senior Member since January 1, 2000; Fellow since January 1, 2007. • EURASIP Member since 1994. • IET Member, 2011-2015. • Vice-Chair of the AESS Fellows Evaluation Committee for 2021, 2022 and 2023. • Member of the Board of Governors (BoG) of the IEEE Signal Processing (SP) Society (Jan. 1st, 2021 – December 31, 2023). • Member of the TC Review Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing (SP) Society (Jan. 1st, 2021 present). • Member of the Signal Processing for Multisensor Systems Technical Area Committee (SPMuS TAC) of the European signal Processing (EURASIP) Society (Jan. 1st, 2020 - present). • Member of the Long Range Planning and Implementation Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing (SP) Society (Jan. 1st, 2021 - present). • Member of the 2020 IEEE TAB Awards and Recognition Committee (TABARC) (February 2020present). • Member of the SPS Conference Board Ad Hoc Committee on Flagship Conferences Future Strategy (2020). • Member of the Conference Board of the IEEE SP Society (January 2019–December 2020). • Moderator of the arXiv database of the Cornell University (USA) for the new category Electrical Engineering and Systems Science – Signal Processing: eess.SP (July 2017-present). • Member of the Board of Governors (BoG) of the IEEE AES Society (Jan. 1st, 2017 - present). • Chair of the Fellows Search Committee of the IEEE AES Society (Jan. 1st, 2018 – Oct. 2020). • Chair of the Awards Ad-hoc Committee of the IEEE AES Society (April 2018–present). • Awards Chair of the IEEE AES Society (January 2019–present). • Awards vice-Chair of the IEEE AES Society (October 2017–December 2018). • Member of the Conference Board of the IEEE AES Society (Jan. 1st, 2017 - present). • Member of the Publication Board of the IEEE AES Society (Jan. 1st, 2017 – December 2021). • President of the EURASIP Society (Jan. 1st, 2013 - Dec. 31st, 2016). • Member of the Awards Board of the IEEE SP Society (2016–2018). • Area Editor for the Special Issues of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2012-2014). • Member of the Radar System Panel of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS) (2008-2020). • SPS representative for the Division IX Initiative: Quality of Life (nominated by A. Acero, Feb. 2014). • Member of the Board of Directors (BoD) of the EURASIP Society (Sept. 2004 – Dec. 2018). • Award Chairman of the EURASIP Society (Sept. 2004 – Dec. 2012). • Member of the Steering Committee of the journal IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems (January 2021present). • Specialty Chief Editor for the “Radar Signal Processing” section of the journals Frontiers in Signal Processing (January 1st, 2021-present). • Co-founder and 1st co-Editor-in-Chief of the Hindawi International Journal on Navigation and Observation (Jan. 2007 - Jan. 2011). • Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANS. ON AEROSPACE AND ELECTRONICS SYSTEMS (Jan. 2008 - present). • Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANS. ON SIGNAL PROCESSING (from July 2000 to July 2006). • Senior Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANS. ON SIGNAL PROCESSING (from January 2016 to June 2017) • Member of the Editorial Board of the EURASIP Signal Processing journal (Dec. 2006-present). • Member of the Editorial Board of the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (JASP) (July 2003 - Dec. 2009). • Fellow Member of the Signal Processing Theory and Methods (SPTM) Technical Committee (TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (January 2003–December 2012 and January 2021-present). • Member of the SPTM Awards Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (since Jan. 2006 and Chair Jan. 2010-Dec. 2012). • Fellow Member of the Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) Technical Committee (TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (Nov. 2002-Dec. 2010 and Jan. 2015-Dec. 2020) • Member of the Awards sub-committee of the SAM TC of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (Jan. 2006 and Jan. 2009) and Chair of this committee (Jan. 2009 and Jan. 2012). • Chair of the Nominations and Elections Subcommittee of the SAM TC of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (Jan. 2016-Dec. 2020). • Section Editor for 2nd edition of the “Radar Signal Processing” section, Volume 7 (Array, Radar and Communications Engineering) of the Academic Press Library in Signal Processing, S. Theodoridis and R. Chellappa editors, Elsevier Ltd, 2017. • Section Editor for the “Radar Signal Processing” section, Vol. 3 of the Academic Press Library in Signal Processing, S. Theodoridis and R. Chellappa editors, Elsevier Ltd, 2013. • Guest co-editor of the special section on “Advances in Time/Frequency Modulated Array Signal Processing.” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing. Volume: 11, Issue: 2, March 2017. • Guest co-editor of the special issue of the EURASIP Signal Processing journal on “Advances in Sensor Array Processing," in Memory of Alex B. Gershman, Volume 93, Issue 12, December 2013. • Guest co-editor of the book Waveform Design and Diversity for Advanced Radar Systems, F. Gini, A. De Maio, L. K. Patton editors, IET, Radar Sonar and Navigation Series 22, 2013. • Guest co-editor of the book Knowledge based radar detection, tracking and classification, F. Gini and M. Rangaswamy editors, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey, 2008. • Guest co-editor of the special issue of the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing on “Reproducible Research in Signal Processing,” October 2011. • Guest co-editor of the special section of the IET Radar, Sonar, and Navigation journal on "Selected Papers from IEEE RadarCon2008 Rome”, appeared in Vol. 3, No. 4, August 2009. • Guest co-editor of the special section of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics on Signal Processing on “Adaptive Waveform Design for Agile Sensing and Communication”, appeared in Vol. 1, June 2007. • Guest editor of the special section of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine on “Knowledge Based Systems for Adaptive Radar: Detection, Tracking and Classification,” appeared in Vol. 23, No. 1, January 2006. • Organizer and co-author of the editorial of the special issue of the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing on “Advances in Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Processing,” appeared in Vol. 20, 15 December 2005. • Guest co-editor of the special issue of the EURASIP Signal Processing journal on “New trends and findings in antenna array processing for radar,” appeared in Vol. 84, 2004. • Organizer of the 1/2-day event “Machine Learning for Radar and Remote Sensing”, Italian GTTI, November 26, 2020. • General co-Chair of the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2025), to be held in Taormina (Sicily), Italy, September, 2025. • Tutorial co-Chair of the 2023 IEEE International Radar Conference, Sydney, Australia, in November 2023. • Special Session co-Chair of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023), Rhodes, Greece, June 2023. • General co-Chair of the 2020 IEEE Radar Conference, Florence, September 21-25, 2020. • General co-Chair of the 4th Workshop on Compressive Sensing Theory and its Applications to Radar, Sonar and Remote Sensing (CoSeRa 2016), 19-21 September 2016, Aachen, Germany. • Technical Program co-Chair for the 6th 2015 IEEE Workshop on Computational Advances in MultiSensor Array Processing (CAMSAP), December 2015, Cancun, Mexico. • General co-Chair of the 3rd Workshop on Compressive Sensing Theory and its Applications to Radar, Sonar and Remote Sensing (CoSeRa 2015), Pisa, Italy, 16-19 June 2015. • General co-Chair of the NATO SET-213, Specialist Meeting on Compressive Sensing for Radar/SAR and EO/IR Imaging, May 12-13, Tallin, Estonia, 2014. • General co-Chair of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2014), Florence, Italy, 5-9 May 2014. • General co-Chair of the 2nd Workshop on Compressed Sensing applied to Radar (CoSeRa 2013), Bonn, Germany, September 17-19, 2013. • General co-Chair of the 2nd IAPR Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing (CIP 2010), June 1316, 2010, Elba Island, Italy. • Technical Program co-Chair of the 2008 IEEE Radar Conference, Rome, May 26-30, 2008. • Technical Program co-Chair of the 14th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2006), Florence, Italy, September 4-8, 2006. • Committee Member of the Workshop on Statistics, Optimization, and Signal Processing (STATOS 2013), in memory of Alex B. Gershman, Darmstadt, Germany, June 15-16, 2013. • Tutorial Chair for the 2013 IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances for Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2013), Darmstadt, Germany, 16-19 June 2013. • Organizer of the special session on “Advanced Signal Processing Techniques for Contactless and Remote Health Monitoring Systems” at the 17th IEEE Medical Measurements & Applications Symposium (MeMeA 2022), 22-24 June, Giardini Naxos-Taormina, Italy. • Organizer of the special session on “Adaptive Waveform Design and Diversity” at the 19th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2011), Aug. 29 - Sept. 2, 2011, Barcelona, Spain. • Organizer of the special session on “Signal Processing for Radar” at the 17th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP 2011), 6-8 July, Corfù, Greece. • Organizer of the Focus Session on “Clutter modeling and Interference Suppression in Bistatic Radar Systems” at the European Microwave Week (EuRAD 2014), 5-10 October Rome, Italy. • Organizer of the special session on “Cognitive Radar” at the 2015 IEEE International Radar Conference, 11-15 May, 2015, Arlington (VA), USA. • Special Session Chair and Member of the Organizing Committee for the 21st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2013), Marrakech, Morocco. • Member of the Technical Committee for the 3rd IAPR Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing (CIP 2012), Vigo, Spain. • Member of the Technical Program Committee for the 2012 IET International Radar Conference, Glasgow, Scotland. • Member of the Technical Committee for the 4th 2011 IEEE Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Array Processing (CAMSAP), December 13-16 2011, San Juan, Puerto Rico. • Member of the Technical Committee for the 2011 IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP 2011), 28-30 June 2011, Nice, France. • Member of the Technical Committee for the 2007 EURASIP Signal and Image Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Poznan, Poland, on September 3-7, 2007. • Member of the Technical Committee for the 2007 IEEE Workshop on Computational Advances in MultiSensor Array Processing (CAMSAP), December 12-14 2007, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. • Member of the Technical Committee and Track Chair for the 3rd International Conference on Waveform Diversity and Design (WDD07), June 4-8 2007, Pisa, Italy. • Organizer of the special session on “Adaptive waveform design for radar detection and tracking” at the 3rd International Conference on Waveform Diversity and Design (WDD07), June 4-8 2007, Pisa, Italy. • Member of the Technical Committee for the 2nd Information, Decision and Control Conference (IDC), February 12-14, 2007, Adelaide, Australia. • Member of the Technical Committee for the International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), Florence, Italy, 10-13 July 2006. • European Liaison for the 2004 IEEE Workshop on Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM), Boston, USA, July 2006. • Member of the Technical Committee for the 2004 IEEE Workshop on Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM), Boston, USA, July 2006. • Member of the Technical Committee for the 2005 IEEE Workshop on Computational Advances in (Multi) Sensor Array Processing (CAMSAP), Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, December 13-15, 2005. • Organizer of the special session on “Computational methods for multi-sensor radar” at the 2005 IEEE Workshop on Computational Advances in (Multi-) Sensor Array Processing (CAMSAP), Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, December 13-15, 2005. • Member of the Technical Committee for the 2005 IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP), Bordeaux, France, 18-20 July 2005. • Member of the Technical Committee for the 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), Rome, Italy, 18-22 December 2004. • Member of the Technical Committee and Distinguished Lecturer for the 2004 IEEE Workshop on Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM), Barcelona, Spain, July 2004. • Member of the Technical Committee for the 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), Darmstadt, Germany, 14-17 December 2003. • Organizer of the special session on “Signal Processing for Radar Applications” at the IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), Darmstadt, Germany, 14-17 December 2003. • Member of the Organizing Committee for the Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Remote Sensing (TIWRS), Elba Island, Italy, September 2003. • Co-organizer of the special session on “Multichannel SAR Interferometry” at the IEEE International Radar Conference, Adelaide, Australia, September 2003. • European Liaison, IEEE International Radar Conference, Adelaide, Australia, September 2003. • Member of the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE International Radar Conference, Adelaide, Australia, September 2003. • Treasurer for the 2003 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Rome, Italy, June 2003. • Member of the Technical Committee for the 2003 IEEE-EURASIP Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing (NSIP), Grado, Italy, June 2003. • Session Chairman, International Conference on Signal Processing, Beijing, China, October 1998. • Session Chairman, IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Rome, Italy, June 2003. • Session Chairman, IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), Darmstadt, Germany, 14-17 December 2003. • Session Chairman, IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Montreal, Canada, 17-21 May 2004. • Session Chairman, for the 2005 IEEE Workshop on Computational Advances in (Multi-) Sensor Array Processing (CAMSAP), Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, December 13-15, 2005. • Technical Committee Chair for ICASSP 2005 (Philadelphia, USA); TC: Signal Processing Theory and Methods Stationary; sub-topic: Signals and Spectrum Analysis. • Reviewer for the following international journals: Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Aerospace and Electronics Systems Magazine; IEEE Signal Processing Magazine; IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronics Systems; IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing; IEEE Trans. on Communications; IEEE Trans. on Information Theory; IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation; IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics; IEEE Signal Processing Letters; IEEE Communications Letters; IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters; IEE Proceedings - Radar, Sonar and Navigation (Part-F); IEE Proceedings - Vision, Image and Signal Processing; Electronics Letters; Journal on Applied Signal Processing (Hindawi); Signal Processing (Elsevier), Digital Signal Processing (Elsevier); • and international conferences: Fifth Communication Theory mini-conference (London UK, 1996), Radar 2002 (Edinburgh, UK), ICASSP 2002 (Orlando, Florida, USA); NSIP 2003 (Grado, Italy), ICASSP 2003 (Hong Kong, China), Radar 2003 (Adelaide, Australia), ICIP 2003 (Barcelona, Spain), SSP 2003 (St. Louis, Missouri, USA), ISSPIT 2003 (Darmstadt, Germany), ICC 2004 (Paris, France), ICASSP 2004 (Montreal, Canada), EUSIPCO 2004 (Vienna, Austria), SAM 2004 (Barcelona, Spain), ICIP 2004 (Singapore), ISITA 2004 (Parma, Italy), DSP&SPED 2004 (New Mexico, USA ), ISSPIT 2004 (Rome, Italy), ICASSP 2005 (Philadelphia, USA), CAMSAP 2005 (Puerto Vallarta, México), SPAWC 2005 ( New York, NY, USA), Globecom 2005 (St. Louis, Missouri, USA), EW 2005 (Nicosia, Cyprus), ICC 2005 (Seoul, Korea), RADAR 2006 (Verona, NY, USA), ICASSP 2006 (Toulouse, France), ICC 2006 (Istanbul, Turkey), Fusion 2006 (Florence, Italy), EUSIPCO 2006 (Florence, Italy), ICIP 2006 (Atlanta, USA), Radar 2007, (Boston, USA), Intl. Radar Conf. 2007 (Edinburgh, UK), CAMSAP 2007 (St, Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands), EUSIPCO 2007 (Posnan, Poland), IEEE Radar Conference 2008 (Rome, Italy), EUSIPCO 2008 (Lausanne, Switzerland), ICASSP 2009 (Taipei, Taiwan), EUSIPCO 2009 (Glasgow, UK), ISPA 2009 (Salzburg, Austria), SSP 2009 (Cardiff, UK), CAMSAP 2009 (Aruba), International Radar Conference 2010 (Washington D.C., USA), DSP/SPE 2011 (Sedona, AZ, USA), IEEE Radarcon 2011 (Kansas City, USA), ICASSP 2011 (Prague), EUSIPCO 2011 (Barcelona, Spain), CAMSAP 2011 (San Juan, Puerto Rico), Radar 20112 (Glasgow, Scotland), CIP2012 (Pontevedra, Spain), ICASSP 2012 (Kyoto, Japan), IWSSIP 2012 (Vienna, Austria), ICT 2012 (Jounieh, Lebanon), EUSIPCO 2012 (Bucharest, Romania), IEEE Radarcon 2012 (Atlanta, USA), Radar 2012 (Glasgow, UK), SSP 2012 (Ann Arbor, USA),TyWRRS 2012 (Naples, Italy), ICASSP 2013 (Vancouver, Canada), International Radar Conference 2014 (Lille, France), EuRAD 2014 (Rome, Italy), ICASSP 2014 (Florence, Italy), EUSIPCO 2014 (Nice, France), ICASSP 2015 (Brisbane, Australia), International Radar Conference 2015 (Arlington, VA, USA), AFRICON 2015 (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia), IEEE Radar Conference 2015 (Johannesburg, South Africa), IEEE ISSPIT 2015 (Abu Dhabi, UAE), IEEE Radar Conference 2016 (Philadelphia, PA, USA), SSP 2016 (Palma di Mallorca, Spain), ICASSP 2016 (Shanghai, China), ICASSP 2017 (New Orleans, USA), IEEE Radar Conference 2017 (Seattle, WA, USA), EUSIPCO 2017 (Kos, Greece), IET Radar Conference 2017 (Belfast, UK), IEEE CAMSAP 2017 (Curaçao, Dutch Antilles), ICASSP 2018 (Calgary, Canada), IEEE Radar Conference 2018 (Oklahoma City, OK, USA), SSP2018 (Friburg, Germany), EUSIPCO 2018 (Rome, Italy), IEEE Radar Conference 2019 (Boston, MA, USA), ICASSP 2019 (Brighton, UK), International Radar conference 2019 (Toulon, France), EUSIPCO 2019 (A Coruña, Spain), IEEE International Radar conference 2020 (Washington D.C., US), ICASSP 2020 (Barcelona, Spain), IEEE SAM 2020 (Hangzhou, China), EUSIPCO 2020 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), ICASSP 2021 (Toronto, Canada), IEEE Radar Conference 2021 (Atlanta, GE, USA), EUSIPCO 2021 (Dublin, Ireland), IEEE Radar Conference 2022 (New York, USA), ICASSP 2022 (Singapore), 2022 IEEE Medical Measurements & Applications (MeMeA) (Taormina, Italy), ICASSP 2023 (Rhodes Island, Greece), IEEE Radar Conference 2023 (San Antonio, USA), IEEE CAMSAP 2023 (Costarica). HONORS/AWARDS 2022 IEEE TAES Associate Editor Recognition for exemplary service to IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. 2022 IEEE AESS Warren White Award for Excellence in Radar Engineering "For Contributions to Radar Signal Processing and Radar Clutter Modelling and Analysis". 2020 EURASIP Meritorious Service Award "For Leadership and Activities as EURASIP Chair and for continuous commitment with EURASIP over the last fifteen years in almost all aspects". 2019 EURASIP Best Paper Award for the paper (co-authored with S. Fortunati, R. Grasso, M. Greco, K. LePage) published in the July 2014 issue of the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (Springer). 2018 Silver Florin as “Ambassador” of the city of Florence. 2016 IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society’s Barry Carlton Award for 2012 Best Paper for the paper (co-authored with K. J. Sangston, and M. Greco) published in the January 2012 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. 2016 Certificate of Merit “for outstanding editorial board service for the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine”. 2014 Certificate of Merit “for dedication and leadership in organizing the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)”. 2014 MBDA Innovation Award for the project COTRAMIS of a tracking cognitive radar. 2011 "Premio Francesco Carassa" per il miglior lavoro nel settore Telerilevamento (Best Paper Award in the Remote Sensing area) for the paper co-authored with P. Stinco, M. Greco and A. Farina, presented at the Annual GTTI Meeting, Taormina, June 2011. 2007 Elevated to IEEE Fellow with the following citation: “For contributions to optimal radar signal processing techniques”. 2004 2003 IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society Fred Nathanson Award to the Young Engineer of the Year, to grant international recognition to young engineers for outstanding radar contributions. 2004 “Leone Rampante” Award of the Municipality of the town of Fucecchio 2003 2003 IEE Achievement Award, for outstanding contribution in radar signal processing. 2002 IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society’s Barry Carlton Award for 2001 Best Paper for the paper (co-authored with P. Lombardo, M. Greco, A. Farina, and B. Billingsley) that was published in the July 2001 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. 1991 SIP (now Telecom) award for the 1990 best Laurea thesis in Telecommunications.