Cesare Alippi was born in Lecco (LC) on March the 1st 1966. 1985-1990 M.Eng Summa cum Laude, Electrical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. 1990 - 1992: Research Fellow, Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK. 1993 - 1993: Honorary Researcher, Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK. 1991-1995 Ph.D in Computer and Control Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. April - July 1994: Visiting Researcher, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachussetts Institute of Technology. 1991 - 1995: Assistant Professor, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. 1996 - 1998: Research Scientist, Italian National Research Council, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. 1996 - 1998: Reader, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. 1998 - 2002: Associate Professor, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. 2002 - : Full Professor, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Alippi is a Fellow of the IEEE “for contributions to robustness and application-level synthesis of embedded information processing systems”, Associate Editor of the IEEE-Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements, Associate Editor of the IEEE-Transactions on Neural Networks, Co-Chair of the Technical Committee TC-22 Intelligent Measurement Systems of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence task force on Intelligent Measurement Systems of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. Alippi has organized several special issues and has been program chair and general chair in several conferences (IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Measurement and Virtual Systems, 1999, 2001, 2002; IEEE Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications CIMSA 2003, 2004, 2005). In 2003 and 2004 he was a “voting representative of the IEEE I&M Society in the AdCom of the IEEE NN Society”. In 2004 he received the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Young Engineer Award "for his contributions to robustness and application-level synthesis of embedded information processing systems". The ongoing research activity addresses the Information Processing Systems arena and, in particular, Adaptive Algorithms, Active and Passive Wireless Sensor Networks, Application-level Analysis and Synthesis of Embedded Signal/Image Processing Systems, Quality Analysis and Composite System Design. Research activities are carried out both on academical and industrial fronts.