Marco Mellia (F’21) is the coordinator of the SmartData@PoliTO center, a interdisciplinary lab involving more than 50 researchers with focus on Big Data analytics and Data Science, with applications to network management, cybersecurity, smart cities, intelligent transport systems, and predictive maintenance. He has co-authored over 250 papers published in international journals and presented in leading conferences. He hold 11 patents. He won the IRTF ANR Prize at IETF-88, and best paper awards at IEEE P2P’12, ACM CoNEXT’13, IEEE ICDCS’15, ACM CCR’16, ITC’18. He is part of the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Elsevier Computer Networks, ACM Computer Communication Review, and Editor in Chief of the Proceedings of the ACM on Networking. He now holds a position as Full Professor at Politecnico di Torino, Italy.