Francesco Viola holds an Italian Laurea in biomedical engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan, Milan, Italy, and a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. He currently serves as Vice President of Engineering and Technology at HemoSonics LLC, a medical device start-up that he co-founded to develop and bring to market novel diagnostics for the characterization and monitoring of hemostasis. Dr. Viola also has an appointment as Visiting Research Professor within the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia. His research interests include ultrasound beamforming, tissue elasticity estimation, acoustic radiation force imaging, and time-delay estimation.