Prof. Federica Battisti has been elected as Chair for the Young Professional Affinity in the IEEE Italy section
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Prof. Michele Zorzi, has been  Elected in the IEEE Communications Society Board of Governors for the next period 2021-2023 as representative of the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region https://www.comsoc.org/about/board-governors.

Nicola Ferro (professor, DEI) together with Marco Ferrante (professor, Dept. of Mathematics), received the *Best Paper Award at the 6th ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2020)*, (virtually) held in Stavanger (Norway), from 14 to 17 September 2020, for the paper entitled "Exploiting Stopping Time to Evaluate Accumulated Relevance

Michele Berno (PhD student @UNIPD), Flavio Esposito (assistant professor @Saint Louis University) and Michele Rossi (associate professor @UNIPD) received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Mobile Cloud 2020, (virtually) held in Oxford, UK, from 3 to 6 of August 2020 for the paper entitled "Elastic Function Chain Control for Edge Networks under Reconfiguration Delay and QoS Requirements".

Qing Liu, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Simone Buso and Tommaso Caldognetto got the *IEEE Women in Engineering Award*  for her PhD Thesis entitled "Control of Grid-Tied Inverters for Nano-Grids" within the New Challenges for Energy and Industry section