Riccardo Carotenuto (M'00 - SM'18) was born in Rome, Italy. He received the Dr.Sc. degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Rome''La Sapienza'' Rome, Italy, in 1992 and 1997, respectively. He was with the Department of Electronic Engineering, University Rome Tre, Rome, focusing on ultrasonic micromotors, resolution enhancement of echographic imaging systems, and theory and technology of capacitive micromachined ultrasound transducers. Since 2002, he has been an Associate Professor with the Department IIES, ''Mediterranea'' University of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy. He has authored or co-authored more than 80 papers published on international journals and conferences proceedings. His current research interests include indoor localization, ultrasound imaging, ultrasound actuators, time-series prediction, nonlinear systems identification and control, and neural networks theory and applications.