Dr. Michele Segata is a tenure-track assistance professor at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Trento. His main research focus is on cooperative driving and communication technologies to support it. During his career, he worked on communication protocols for vehicular networks and on the design of control systems with a specific focus on platooning using a multi-disciplinary approach. He developed “Plexe”, a cooperative driving simulation framework capable of realistically simulating both communication and vehicle dynamics aspect to a high degree of realism. He has also worked on Software Defined Radio systems for vehicular networks and IoT applications, safety applications for vehicular networks, as well as on the optimization of routing protocols for community networks and Internet like networks (BGP).