Flavio Cirillo is a Research Scientist of the IoT research team at NEC Laboratories Europe (NLE), Heidelberg, Germany. His research topics include AI/ML applied to IoT and IoT analytics platforms, focusing on cloud-edge, federation, privacy, data usage control aspects, mainly in the scenario of Smart Cities. He has worked in many IoT related European research projects. He serves in the technical committees for IEEE conferences, and IEEE, Elsevier, MDPI, and Wiley journals. He is member of IEEE, ACM and Communication Society (ComSoc).