Mr. Antonino Galletta (male), Ph.D. candidate at the University of Messina, Messina (Italy), received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. (with honours) in Computer Engineering from the University of Messina. Before starting the Ph.D., he worked as a senior software developer and a team leader at the University of Messina from 2013 to 2016. In 2019 he was the PI of NAME (Helsinki Noise and Air quality Monitoring systEm) a project funded by the European Pre-Commercial Procurement Project “Select for Cities” (Grant Agreement No 688196). His main research activities focus on Cloud/Edge/IoT technologies for Smart cities and eHealth including Big Data management and Blockchain. Due to his contribution to the research, he has been selected among 200 top young researchers in Mathematics and Computer Science to participate at the prestigious “Heidelberg Laureate Forum” held in Heidelberg on September 2019. He has been the winner of last two editions of the precious “Leonardo Innovation Award” in 2018 (First Placed) and in 2017 (Second Placed). In 2019 he was one of the winners of the FIWARE Genoa Hackathon. In 2018, in December he won the Vienna FIWARE challenge and in April, during the “International Conference on Geoinformatics and Data Analysis” (ICGDA, Prague 20-22 April), he won the “Best Presentation Award”. He is a reviewer of 5 respected Journals, Chair of several International Conferences and co-author of more than 30 manuscripts.
