Riccardo Marini received the M.Sc with honors in Telecommunications Engineering and got the Ph.D. in Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technologies Engineering (ET-IT) at the University of Bologna in 2019 and 2023, respectively. He is currently researcher at the National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT) and Research Area Leader at WiLab. His research activities focus on urban and rural Internet of Things, with emphasis on LPWAN technologies and UAV-aided networks, as well as Machine Learning techniques for wireless networks.