Riccardo Rovatti was born on January 14th 1969. He received his M.S. degree (summa cum laude) in Electronic Engineering and his PhD in Electronics, Computer Science and Telecommunications from the University of Bologna in 1992 and 1996 respectively. Since 2012 he is full professor of Electronics at the same university. His interests are in the theory and application of mathematical statistics to signal processing in Information Engineering. He is the author of more than 300 international papers and 2 volumes (H-index: Scopus=28 Scholar=58 WOS=23). He is an IEEE fellow and has been ans Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - I. From the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society he received the Darlington Award in 2004 and the Guillemin-Cauer Award in 2013. He edited the May 2002 special issue of the IEEE Proceedings "Applications of Non-linear Dynamics to Electronic and Information Engineering” and the September 2012 special issue of the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems "Circuits, Systems, and Algorithms for Compressive Sensing"