Michele Zorzi, received the 2019 Best Tutorial Paper Award with the paper "Energy Harvesting Wireless Communications: A Review of Recent Advances“, authored by  Sennur Ulukus, Aylin Yener, Elza Erkip, Osvaldo Simeone, Michele Zorzi, Pulkit Grover, Kaibin Huang,  published on IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 33, Issue 3, pp. 360-381, January 2015. 

Nadeem Ahmed Malik, Ph.D. student at DEI Under the supervision of Prof. Piergiorgio Nicolosi received the BEST STUDENT PAPER at the SPIE conference Optics+Optoelectronics 2019, Prague, with the paper entitled "EUV reflective ellipsometry in the laboratory: determination of the optical constants and phase retarder properties of SiO2 at hydrogen Lyman–alpha" Authors: NADEEM AHMED, P. NICOLOSI, A.E.H. GABALLAH, c, K. JIMENEZ, P. ZUPPELLA

Tommaso Zugno Ph.D. student at DEI under the supervision of Prof. Michele Zorzi, has been accepted to participate in the Google Summer of Code 2019 program, which is administered from GOOGLE Corporate Headquarters in Mountain View, CA 94043. Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on introducing students to open source software development.

- Distinguished Paper award  with a paper entitled "Some experiments with submodular  function maximization     via integer programming", at the Sixteenth International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming,    Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research (CPAIOR 2019), Thessaloniki, Greece 4 - 7 June, 2019- Best Paper Award  with the paper entitled "Lagrangian Decomposition for Optimal Cost Partitioning", authored by    F. Pommerening, G. Roger, M. Helmert, H. Cambazard, L.-M. Rousseau, D.