He completed his Ph.D. at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in 2008. His research interests focus on modern networked embedded systems, with the current focus on the Internet of Things, Cyberphysical Systems, Drone Sensor Networks, and Low-power Wireless Sensing. His research recently earned him the Google Faculty Award, he was listed amongst Postscapes “Internet of Things Top 100 Thinkers,” and he was also awarded the ERCIM Cor Baayen Award, the MIT TR Italia Young Innovator Award, the EWSN/CONET European Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, the Best Paper Award at ACM/IEEE IPSN 2011, and the Best Paper Award at ACM/IEEE IPSN 2009. Luca routinely serves on the program committees of top conferences such as ACM SENSYS, ACM/IEEE IPSN, IEEE ICDCS, EWSN, and IEEE INFOCOM. He was PC co-chair for IEEE DCOSS 2015.