Giuseppe Baruffa was born in Perugia, Italy, in 1970. He received the Laurea degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from the University of Perugia in 1996 and 2001, respectively. In 2005, he visited Swiss Federal Polytechnic of Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Since 2005, he has been an Assistant Professor of telecommunications with the Department of Engineering at the University of Perugia. He is the author of about 60 scientific papers. His main research interests include digital television broadcasting techniques, joint source/channel coding for video, GNSS/Cellular hybrid positioning techniques, and LPWAN sensor networks.