Prof. Stefano Bregni is with Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He graduated in Electronics Engineering (1990). After nine years in Industry, he joined Politecnico in 1999. He contributed to ETSI and ITU-T Standards in network synchronization. He is the author of 100+ technical papers and of a widely recognized book on network synchronization (J. Wiley, 2002).

He has served as a tireless IEEE volunteer for 25 years. He has been a voting member of the IEEE Conferences Committee (2019-20). In the IEEE Communications Society, he served two terms as Vice-President Conferences (2018-19, 2020-21), two terms as Vice-President MGA (2014-2015, 2016-17), as well as Director Conference Operations (2022-23), Member-at-Large on the Board of Governors (2010-2013), Director Education (2008-2011), TAOS TC Chair (2008-2009), Distinguished Lecturer (2003-2009). He is Global Communications Newsletter Editor-in-Chief.

He is leading or has led several top ComSoc conferences, including serving as: General Vice-Chair of GLOBECOM 2022, Technical Program Co-Chair or Vice-Chair of GLOBECOM 2023, ICC 2016, GLOBECOM 2012 and GLOBECOM 2009, Symposium Co-Chair in nine other ICC/GLOBECOMs, Chair of the IEEE LATINCOM Steering Committee.

In recognition of his outstanding service, he received the IEEE ComSoc/KICS Exemplary Global Service Award (2019), the IEEE ComSoc Hal Sobol Award for Exemplary Service to Meetings & Conferences (2014), and the IEEE ComSoc Transmission, Access and Optical Systems Technical Committee Outstanding Service Award (2014).