Giovanna Sannino is a Research Scientist at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute for High-Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR), and Adjunct Professor of Informatics at the University of Naples "Federico II". She has received a master's degree in Telecommunications Engineering (Cum Laude) from the University of Naples Parthenope in April 2011 and a Ph.D. degree in Information Engineering at the University of Naples "Parthenope" in April 2015. In 2009 she earned a master degree, named "European Master on Critical Networked Systems", and a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering in 2008 at the University of Naples Federico II. She is author of more than 50 scientific papers published in international journals, conference proceedings and books. She also serves on the organizing and program committees of several international conferences and workshops. She is also a member of different international associations, such as IEEE 11073 Personal Health Device Working Group and Applied Biomedical Signal Processing and Intelligent eHealth Lab.

Her research activities are focused in the area of e-Health and pervasive computing, with a particular reference to the biomedical signal analysis (e.g. ECG), pattern recognition, and mobile health application development.