Benedetta Picano (S’17) received the B.S. degree in Computer Science, as the M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering, from the University of Florence, where she received the Ph.D. degree in Information Engineering. She was a visiting researcher at the University of Houston. Her research is in the area of Software Engineering, specifically on solutions involving matching theory and auction theory. Her research fields include nonlinear time seriesanalysis, edge and fog computing architectures supporting digital twin paradigm, and machine learning.