Francesca Marturano (PhD student at DEI, 33rd Cycle, curriculum Bioengineering, advisor G.Sparacino, co-advisor S.Brigadoi)  received the Best Student Paper Award at the 15th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing (MEDICON 2019), held in Coimbra (Portugal), from 26 to 28 September 2019, for the paper entitled: “Development of a Computer Simulator of the Visual N2 Event-Related Potential Component for the Study of Cognitive Processes” by F.Marturano, S.Brigadoi, M. Doro, R. Dell’Acqua and G. Sparacino.

Nunzio Camerlingo (PhD student at DEI, 34th Cycle, curriculum Bioengineering, advisor G.Sparacino, co-advisor A.Facchinetti)  received the Best Pitch Award at the 38th Annual School of GNB (Gruppo Nazionale di Bioingegneria) held in Bressanone, 9-12 September, 2019,  for the project “Sensorized adaptive gloves to improve tactile feedback in remote microsurgery” developed together with D.De Marchi (Università  di Pavia), F. Pulchinotta (Politecnico di Milano), F.Mereu (Campus Bio Medico di Roma), M.Maiolatesi (Università  Politecnica delle Marche), M.

Jacopo Pavan (about to start a PhD program at DEI, 35th Cycle, curriculum Bioengineering) received the award for best MSc thesis at the 38th Annual School of GNB (Gruppo Nazionale di Bioingegneria) held in Bressanone, 9-12 September, 2019,  for the work  "Model predictive control of blood glucose concentration using both insulin infusion and carbohydrates intake in type 1 diabetes", supervised by S.Del Favero and co-supervised by A.Facchinetti and G.Sparacino.

Giada Acciaroli (former PhD student at DEI, 31st cycle, curriculum Bioengineering, presently Senior Data Scientist at DexCom Inc., San Diego, CA) received the award for best PhD thesis at the 38th Annual School of GNB (Gruppo Nazionale di Bioingegneria) held in Bressanone, 9-12 September, 2019,  for her work  "Calibration of continuous glucose monitoring sensors by time-varying models and Bayesian estimation", supervised by G.Sparacino and co-supervised by A.Facchinetti.

Luca Varotto, Ph.D. student at DEI under the supervision of Prof. Angelo Cenedese won the CORSMAL Challenge (Collaborative object recognition, shared manipulation and learning) at the 2019 Intelligent Sensing Summer School, held in London from 2 to 6 September 2019, with an hands-on activity entitled "Human-to-Robot Handovers of Unseen Containers with Unknown Filling" - authors:  Luca Varotto, Raphael Leung and Paul Curuia V.

Dennis Dosso, PhD student at DEI within the IMS Group, under the supervision of Gianmaria Silvello won the best presentation award a the "9th PhD Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA) ” held in Milano from 15 to 19 July 2019, with the paper "A Keyword Search & Citation System for RDF Graphs