Raffaele Grasso is MEng in Telecommunication from the University of Pisa, Italy, Ph.D. in remote sensing from the University of Florence, Italy, and Executive MBA from the LUISS Business School, Rome, Italy. He is a scientist in the research department of the NATO Science & Technology Organization-Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation. His research interests include statistical signal processing, machine learning, compressive sensing, decision support systems, and optimal sensor network deployment and control, applied to surveillance, environmental monitoring, maritime situational awareness and maritime operation planning. He is coauthor of more than 70 publications in international scientific journals and conference proceedings.