Andrea Melloni, Full Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy with Chair in Electromagnetic Fields, leader of the Photonic Devices group and Director of Polifab, the facility for micro and nano technologies at Politecnico di Milano. Fellow of the Optical Society of America. His field of research is in photonic integration for optical communication, photonic computing, sensing and optical processing, adaptive control, calibration and testing of large photonic integrated circuits. He is author of more than 450 publications, 20 patents and 4 book contributions.