Bio:

Stefano Caputo is a research fellow in Telecommunications Engineering at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Florence, Italy. He obtained a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2016 and a Ph.D. in Telecommunications Engineering in 2019 from the University of Florence. After completing his Ph.D., he spent four years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Florence. Then, he has been a research fellow for two years. His teaching activities include courses on the theory and experimentation of sensor systems (Internet of Things) at both the Bachelor’s and Master’s levels, as well as courses on Visible Light Communications at the Ph.D. level. He has also served as lecturer and assistant for many courses at the Bachelor’s and Master’s levels. His main research focus is on Visible Light Communications, a topic he has been working on since his Master’s thesis in 2015. His other research interests include physical layer security, molecular communications, and wireless sensor systems used for communication and localization, primarily in medical and industrial applications. He is the author of 50 papers, 60% published in international journals and 40% in conference proceedings. His h-index is 16, with about 700 citations over his nine years of research. He has been a member of IEEE since this year. He is the Work Package Coordinator for the Industrial Networks project of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) and he is responsible for organizing advanced training courses for the Pervasive Communications project of the PNRR.