Alessio Balleri received the Laurea degree in telecommunication engineering (summa cum laude) (five legal years) from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree in electronic and electrical engineering from the University College London (UCL), London, U.K., in 2010. From February 2010 to March 2012, he was a Research Associate in radar systems with the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, UCL. From June 2004 to December 2004, he was a Visiting Research Scholar with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago.

He is currently a Professor of radar systems with Cranfield University, Shrivenham, U.K. His research interests include radar and sonar system design, biologically inspired radar and sonar systems, adaptive radar, radar and sonar target classification, target feature extraction, and modeling of radar clutter.

Dr. Balleri Guest Coedited a special issue on “Biologically Inspired Radar and Sonar Systems” for the IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation in 2012 and a special issue on “Emerging Radar Techniques” for the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, in 2013. He was the Technical Program Committee Co-Chair for the IET International Radar Conference 2017, Belfast, U.K. and the Technical Co-Chair of the 2020 IEEE International Radar Conference, Washington, DC, USA. He is currently serving as the Special Issue editor and Deputy Editor in Chief for the IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation journal, as the Associate Editor in Chief for the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems magazine, and he is an elected member of the IEEE AESS Radar System Panel.