Andrea Conti (Fellow, IEEE) is currently a Professor and founding Director of WCLN Lab, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy. He received the Dr.Ing. degree (summa cum laude) in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electronic and computer engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1997 and 2001, respectively. Prior to joining the University of Ferrara, he was with CNIT, and with IEIIT-CNR. In Summer 2001, he was with the Wireless Systems Research Department, AT&T Research Laboratories. Since 2003, he has been a frequent visitor with the WINS Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, where he is currently holds the Research Affiliate appointment. His research interests include network localization and navigation, distributed sensing, adaptive diversity communications, and quantum information science. He has served as an Editor for IEEE journals and chaired international conferences. He was an elected Chair of the IEEE Communications Society’s Radio Communications Technical Committee and is Co-Founder of the IEEE Quantum Communications and Information Technology Emerging Technical Subcommittee. He was the recipient of the HTE Puskás Tivadar Medal, the IEEE Communications Society’s Fred W. Ellersick Prize, and the IEEE Communications Society’s Stephen O. Rice Prize in the field of Communications Theory. He is an elected Fellow of the IEEE and of the IET. He has been selected as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.

Marco Chiani (Fellow, IEEE) is currently a Full Professor of telecommunications with the University of Bologna. He received the Dr.Ing. degree (summa cum laude) in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electronic and computer engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1989 and 1993, respectively. Since 2003, he has been a Frequent Visitor with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, where he holds a Research Affiliate appointment. His research interests include information theory, wireless systems, statistical signal processing, and quantum information. He received the 2011 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize in the Field of Communications Systems, the 2012 IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize, and the 2012 IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize in the Field of Communications Theory. He served as the elected Chair (2002–2004) of the Radio Communications Committee of the IEEE Communication Society and as an Editor (2000–2007) for Wireless Communication for the IEEE Transactions on Communications.

Enrico Paolini (Senior Member, IEEE) is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering, University of Bologna. He received the Dr. Ing. degree (summa cum laude) in telecommunications engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. During the Ph.D. degree, he was a Visiting Research Scholar with the Department of Electrical Engineering. University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA. He was also a Visiting Scientist with the Institute of Communications and Navigation, German Aerospace Center, in 2012 and 2014, under DLR-DAAD fellowships. His research interests include digital communications, error correcting codes, massive multiple access, joint sensing, and communications. He served as the Co-Chair for the ICC 2014, ICC 2015, and ICC 2016 Workshop on Massive Uncoordinated Access Protocols. the VTC 2019-Fall Workshop on Small Data Networks, the 2018 IEEE European School of Information Theory, and the 2020 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, and the TPC Co-Chair for the IEEE GLOBECOM 2022-CT and the IEEE GLOBECOM 2019-CT. He is the Past Chair of the ITSoc Italy Section Chapter and the Vice Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Radio Communications Committee. He was an Editor of the IEEE Communications Letters form 2012 to 2015 and IEEE Transactions on Communications from 2015 to 2020.

Lorenzo Valentini is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree of the University of Bologna. He received the M.S. degree (summa cum laude) in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineer for the Energy in 2019 from the University of Bologna, Italy.  From 2019 to 2020, he was with the Interdepartmental Centre for Industrial ICT Research, University of Bologna. His research interests include communication theory, wireless sensor networks, massive multiple access protocols, and quantum information.

Davide Andromari is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the Wireless Communication and Localization Networks Laboratory of the University of Ferrara. He received the M.S. degree (summa cum laude) in Electronic for ICT Engineering in 2023 from the University of Ferrara, Italy.  His research interests are in the area of quantum information science and, in particular, on quantum networks.

Diego Forlivesi is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree of the University of Bologna. He received the M.S. degree (summa cum laude) in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineer for the Energy in 2022 from the University of Bologna, Italy.  His research interests are focused on error control technologies for next generations telecommunication systems, with particular interest on Quantum Error Correction and Quantum Communications.

Federico Forzano is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the Wireless Communication and Localization Networks Laboratory of the University of Ferrara. He received the M.S. degree (summa cum laude) in Electronic for ICT Engineering in 2023 from the University of Ferrara, Italy.  His research interests are in the area of quantum information science and, in particular, on quantum sensing.

Andrea Giani is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the Wireless Communication and Localization Networks Laboratory of the University of Ferrara. He received the M.S. degree (summa cum laude) in Electronic for ICT Engineering in 2022 from the University of Ferrara, Italy. In 2024, he has been a visiting Ph.D. studente at WINS Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. His research interests include quantum information science and stochastic networks.