Gaetano Valenza, M.Eng., Ph.D., is currently Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, and head of the Neuro-Cardiovascular Intelligence Lab. His research interests include statistical and nonlinear biomedical signal and image processing, cardiovascular and neural modeling, physiologically-interpretable artificial intelligence systems, and wearable systems for physiological monitoring. Applications of his research include the assessment of autonomic nervous system activity on cardiovascular control, brain-heart interactions, affective computing, assessment of mood and mental/neurological disorders. He is an author of more than 300 international scientific contributions in these fields published in peer-reviewed international journals, conference proceedings, books and book chapters, and is official reviewer of more than sixty international scientific journals and research funding agencies.