Mauro Mangia received the B.Sc., M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering, Ph.D. degree in information technology from the University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy) respectively in 2005, 2009 and 2013. He is currently a Postdoc Researcher in the statistical signal processing group of ARCES - University of Bologna. In 2009 and 2012 he was a visiting Ph.D. student at the Ècole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). His research interests are in nonlinear systems, compressed sensing, ultra-wideband systems, and system biology. He was recipient of the 2013 IEEE CAS Society Guillemin-Cauer Award and best student paper award at ISCAS2011. Fabio Pareschi received the Dr. Eng. degree (with honours) in Electronic Engineering from University of Ferrara, Italy, in 2001, and the Ph.D. in Information Technology under the European Doctorate Project (EDITH) from University of Bologna, Italy, in 2007. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering (ENDIF), University of Ferrara. He is also a faculty member of ARCES – University of Bologna, Italy. He served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems – Part II (2010–2013). His research activity focuses on analog and mixed-mode electronic circuit design, statistical signal processing, random number generation and testing, and electromagnetic compatibility. He was recipient of the best paper award at ECCTD 2005 and the best student paper award at EMC Zurich 2005.Valerio Cambareri received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Electronic Engineering from the University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy), respectively in 2008, 2011, and 2015. In 2014 he was a Visiting Researcher in the Integrated Imagers group of IMEC (Leuven, Belgium). From May 2015 to June 2017 he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Image and Signal Processing Group of ICTEAM/ELEN, Université catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium). In June 2017,he joined SoftKinetic International SA/NV (Brussels, Belgium). His current research interests focus on signal processing theory and methods, compressed sensing, computational imaging, and depth sensing technologies.Riccardo Rovatti received a Dr. Eng. Degree (with honors) in Electronic engineering and a PhD. Degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Bologna, Bologna in 1992 and in 1996, respectively, for his contribution to the study of fuzzy systems. He is currently a Professor of Electronics and Signal Processing at the University of Bologna and a permanent faculty member of ARCES, the Advanced Research Center on Electronic Systems for Information and Communication Technologies of the University of Bologna. He is the author of more than 300 technical contribution to international conferences and journal and of three volumes. His research interests currently focus on non-linear and statistical signal processing for, or by means of, electronic systems.Dr. Rovatti is co-recipient of the 2004 IEEE CAS Society Darlington Award, of the 2013 IEEE CAS Society Guillemin-Cauer Award, as well as of the best paper award at ECCTD2005, and the best student paper award at EMCZurich2005 and at ISCAS2011. He was Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - Part I (2006-2007) and Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal on Selected and Emerging Topics in Circuits and Systems (Special issue on ``Circuits, Systems and Algorithms for Compressive Sensing'', September 2012) and of the Proceedings of the IEEE (Special issue on "Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics to Electronic and Information Engineering'', May 2002). He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE CAS Society (2017-2018) and is a Fellow of the IEEE (class of 2012).Gianluca Setti received a Dr. Eng. degree (with honors) in Electronic Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering and ComputerScience from the University of Bologna, Bologna in 1992 and in 1997, respectively, for his contribution to the study of neural networks and chaotic systems. From May 1994 to July 1995 he was with the Laboratory of Nonlinear Systems (LANOS) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) as visiting researcher. Since 1997 he has been with the School of Engineering at the University of Ferrara, Italy, where he is currently a Professor of Circuit Theory and Analog Electronics. He held several position as Visiting Professor/Scientist at EPFL (2002, 2005), UCSD (2004), IBM T. J. Watson Laboratories (2004, 2007) and at the University of Washington in Seattle (2008, 2010) and is also a permanent faculty member of ARCES, University of Bologna. His research interests include nonlinear circuits, recurrent neural networks, implementation and application of chaotic circuits and systems, electromagnetic compatibility, statistical signal processing and compressed sensing. Dr. Setti received the 2013 IEEE CAS Society Meritorious Service Award and co-recipient of the 2004 IEEE CAS Society Darlington Award, of the 2013 IEEE CAS Society Guillemin-Cauer Award, as well as of the best paper award at ECCTD2005, and the best student paper award at EMCZurich2005 and at ISCAS2011. He held several editorial positions and served, in particular, as the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - Part II (2006-2007) and of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - Part I (2008-2009) and as member for the Editorial Board of IEEE Access and the Proceedings of the IEEE, as well as Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal on Selected and Emerging Topics in Circuits and Systems (Special issue on ``Circuits, Systems and Algorithms for Compressive Sensing'', September 2012) and of the Proceedings of the IEEE (Special issue on ``Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics to Electronic and Information Engineering'', May 2002). Dr. Setti served/will serve as Technical Program Co-Chair of ISCAS2007, ISCAS2008, ICECS2012, BioCAS2013 as well as the General Co-Chair of NOLTA2006 and ISCAS2018. He was Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE CAS Society (2004-2005 and 2015-2016), a member of its Board of Governors (2005-2008), and he served as the 2010 President of CASS. He held several other volunteer positions for the IEEE and in 2013-2014 he was the first non North-American Vice President of the IEEE for Publication Services and Products and a member of the IEEE Board of Directors. He is a Fellow of the IEEE (class of 2006).
