Maria Pia Fanti, IEEE Fellow, received the Laurea degree in electronic engineering from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 1983. She was a visiting researcher at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, New York, in 1999. Since 1983, she has been with the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering of the Polytechnic of Bari, Italy, where she is currently a Full Professor of system and control engineering and Chair of the Laboratory of Automation and Control. Her research interests include management and modeling of complex systems, such as intelligent transportation, logistics and manufacturing systems; discrete event systems; Petri nets; fault detection and cybersecurity. Prof. Fanti has published more than 370 papers and two textbooks on her research topics. She is senior editor of the IEEE Trans. on Automation Science and Engineering, and Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems and the IEEE Transaction on Intelligent Vehicles. She is member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, and was member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Robotics and Automaton Society, founder and chair of the Technical Committee on Automation in Logistics of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. Prof. Fanti was general chair, program chair and member of the organizing committee of many international conferences, in particular she was General Chair of the 2011 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics and the 2019 IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Conference.