Paolo Santi is a Research Scientist at MIT Senseable City Lab where he leads the MIT-Fraunhofer Ambient Mobility initiative, and he is a Senior Researcher at the Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR. His research interest is in the modeling and analysis of complex systems ranging from wireless multi hop networks to sensor and vehicular networks and, more recently, smart mobility and intelligent transportation systems. In these fields, he has contributed more than 100 scientific papers and two books. Dr Santi has been involved in the technical and organizing committee of several conferences in the field, and he is/has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Computer Networks and Guest Editor of the Proceeding of the IEEE. Dr. Santi is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and has recently been recognized as Distinguished Scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery.