Dr. Vincenzo Sciancalepore, is a Principal Researcher and RAN specialist at NEC, Italy. He focuses his activity in the area of network virtualization and smart radio environments with special attention on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces. He has been involved in a number of European Projects. Notably, he was the Technical Manager of the largest project on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISE-6G). He received his M.Sc. degree in 2011 and 2012, a double Ph.D. degree from Politecnico di Milano and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in 2015. He was also the recipient of the national award for the best Ph.D. thesis in the area of communication technologies. He is the recipient of the Best Paper Award at IEEE ICC 2019 and the Best Demo Runner-Up Award at INFOCOM 2019.