Massimiliano Pirani (Member, IEEE) received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electronics and communications engineering from the Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy, in 2000 and 2004, respectively. He worked as a Research Manager and the Head of software departments in industrial and consumer electronics sectors. From 2004 to 2015, he worked as a Computer Science Researcher, a Research Manager, and the Head of software departments in industrial and consumer electronics sectors. He was mainly involved in artificial intelligence, smart control technology, networking and web technologies applied to bioprocesses, industrial systems automation, and smart home. He has been a Research and Innovation Manager and a Development Consultant in embedded electronics systems, the Industrial IoT, intelligent control, and distributed computing. He has been an Adjunct Professor on Internet, computer and computer networks, and mathematics at Marche Polytechnic University. He joined the Department of Information Engineering, Marche Polytechnic University, in 2016, where he is currently a Researcher in cybernetics, holonic multiagent systems, intelligent manufacturing systems, cyber-physical systems of systems, control theory, extended artificial intelligence, and computer science. He has participated in the research and management in four EU FP5/FP7 projects and participates in two Horizon 2020 projects contributing in the development of holonic systems and architectures for the management of building construction processes and in food supply chain. His initial research interests included identification of nonlinear systems, higher order statistics, nonlinear signal processing, audio electronics, speech processing, and loudspeaker systems enhancement. Dr. Pirani is a member of the IEEE IES Technical Committee on Industrial Agents of the IEEE IES Technical Committee on Technology Ethics and Society. He has contributed to the developments of the IEEE Standard 2660.1TM 2020: IEEE Recommended Practice for Industrial Agents. EOD