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07/09/22 - Francesca Meneghello and Marco Canil got awarded at the GTTI

At the "Gruppo Telecomunicazioni e Tecnologie dell’Informazione (GTTI)" meeting, held in Padova (September 5 - 7, 2022)  two award have been given to our collaborators:
Francesca Meneghello, post-doc at DEI got the best PhD thesis award for her PhD thesis entitled "Wireless Communications and Sensing – Opportunities and Challenges for Environment Aware Network",
Marco Canil, PhD got the "F. Carassa" award for his presentation (reporting on his research activity at DEI). 
Both of them have (or had)  Prof. Michele Rossi as supervisor.

Sept. 2022 - Matthias Pezzutto received the "Best Italian PhD. Thesis Award in Automation and Control 2022

Matthias Pezzutto (former PhD student at DEI; supervisor prof. Luca Schenato) received the "Best Italian PhD. Thesis Award in Automation and Control 2022" for his thesis "Predictive constrained control over wireless - From stability to safety " offered by SIDRA (Società Italiana Docenti e Ricercatori in Automatica).

August 2022 - The IAS-Lab won the first prize of "SMACT Call 4 Ideas 2022" 

The team of IAS-Lab (Bacchin, Ghidoni, Menegatti) headed by Emanuele Menegatti won the first prize of "SMACT Call 4 Ideas 2022" 
in the "Zero-waste & green transition" trajectory. This is a monetary award of 10.000 € for developing the proposed "Waste Sorting Robot based on Deep-Learning". This project is also founded by PON 2021, with the PhD scholarship of Alberto Bacchin.

August 2022 - The IAS-Lab team won the 1st ADvanced Agile ProducTion

The IAS-Lab team composed by Matteo Terreran (team leader), Daniele EvangelistaDavide Allegro, Emanuele Menegatti and Stefano Ghidoni won the 1st ADvanced Agile ProducTion (ADAPT) field campaign competition organized by Tampere University, Finland, in the context of the Metrics European project. The team ranked first in both the video track and the live demo track.

15/06/22 - Michele Atzeni (PhD), Luca Cossu (PhD), Giacomo Cappon (assegnista) and Martina Vettoretti got a 3rd place

The team composed by Michele Atzeni (PhD), Luca Cossu (PhD), Giacomo Cappon (assegnista) and Martina Vettoretti arrived 3rd  in the  challenge entitled "Detection of Stress and Mental Health Using Wearable Sensors" organized by the Rice University (Houston, TX, USA) (during the 44th International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC), Glasgow (UK), 11-15 July 2022). 

06/2022 - Zimi Sawacha received the “Start-up ideas competition” award

Zimi Sawacha received the “Start-up ideas competition” award at the European Society of Biomechanics Conference 2022 that was held in Porto 26th-29th June, with the Project “Beyond Biomechanics Sports on Field”

06/2022 - Daniele Orsuti (PhD student) received the "Best Oral Presentation Award"

Daniele Orsuti (PhD student at DEI; supervisor prof. Luca Palmieri) received the "Best Oral Presentation Award" for the topic "Optical Communication systems" at the Italian Conference on Optics and Photonics, for the paper "Deep Learning-Based Phase Retrieval Scheme for Minimum-Phase Signal Recovery" (authors: Daniele Orsuti, Cristian Antonelli, Alessandro Chiuso, Marco Santagiustina, Antonio Mecozzi, Andrea Galtarossa, Luca Palmieri).

06/2022 - Alberto Pretto, Best paper award at the IEEE Robotics & Automation magazine

The paper entitled  "Building an Aerial-Ground Robotics System for Precision Farming: An Adaptable Solution" by Alberto Pretto et al.  published in  IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, Volume: 28, Issue: 3, 2021 (https://www.ieee-ras.org/publications/ram ) won the Best Paper Award for the 2022 edition.

1/04/2021 - Alessandro Fabris won the "IP&M 2020 Ph.D. Paper Award”

Alessandro Fabris won the "IP&M 2020 Ph.D. Paper Award” for the article Fabris, A., Purpura, A., Silvello, G., & Susto, G. A. (2020). Gender stereotype reinforcement: Measuring the gender bias conveyed by ranking algorithms. Information Processing & Management, 57(6), 102377 (open access: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306457320308724). IP&M is a prestigious and widely recognised journal in the field of Data Management since the seventies. Alessandro is a PhD student of the XXXV cycle, curriculum Information Science and Technology, under the supervision of Gian Antonio Susto and Gianmaria Silvello.

04/2021 - Tommaso Boccato received the best paper award at ICAS 2020

Tommaso Boccato (former master student, DEI now cooperating with the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (CCNL), Department of General Psychology) with Stefano Ghidoni received the best paper award at the Sixteenth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS 2020) for the paper "In the Depths of Hyponymy: A Step Towards Lifelong Learning", co-authored with Timothy Patten and Markus Vincze, TU Wien.

04/2021 - Stefano Ghidoni received the "Challenge winner" award for the "Digital Learning Innovation" challenge at DigiEduHack 2020

Stefano Ghidoni received the "Challenge winner" award for the "Digital Learning Innovation" challenge at DigiEduHack 2020, won with the project "DALP - Digitally Augmented Learning Productivity", organized by Franco Bonollo (DTG) with the participation of Carlo Mariconda (DM), Lisa Biasetto (DTG) and Paolo Ferro (DTG).

04/2021 - Francesco Silvestri won the 2021 ACM SIGMOD

Francesco Silvestri won the 2021 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award with the paper “M. Aumüller, R. Pagh and F. Silvestri. Fair Near Neighbor Search: Independent Range Sampling in High Dimensions. In Proc. of ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS), 2020”. The SIGMOD Research Highlight Award aims to showcase a set of research projects that exemplify core database research. In particular, these projects address an important problem, represent a definitive milestone in solving the problem, and have the potential of significant impact.

01/21 - Giacomo Baggio won the IEEE Control Systems Letters "Outstanding Paper Award"

Giacomo Baggio won the IEEE Control Systems Letters "Outstanding Paper Award" for the paper "Data-Driven Minimum-Energy Controls for Linear Systems", authored by G. Baggio, V. Katewa, F. Pasqualetti, published on IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 589-594, July 2019.

01/21 - Giacomo Baggio won the IEEE Control Systems Society Roberto Tempo "Best CDC Paper Award"

Giacomo Baggio won the IEEE Control Systems Society Roberto Tempo "*Best CDC Paper Award" for the paper*"A Framework to Control Functional Connectivity in the Human Brain", authored by T. Menara, G. Baggio, D. S. Bassett, F. Pasqualetti, presented at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Nice, France, 2019.

01/21 - Matteo Terreranand, Stefano Ghidoni won the best paper award and the best session paper award

Matteo Terreranand, Stefano Ghidoniwon the best paper award and the best session paper award for the paper "Real-time object detection using deep learning for helping people with visual impairments", co-authored with the former student Andrea Tramontano, and with Jacobus C. Lock (PhD student) and Nicola Bellotto (reader) from the University of Lincoln, UK. Matteo is a PhD student of the XXXIII cycle, curriculum Information Science and Technology, under the supervision of Stefano Ghidoni.

27/11/2020 - Gloria Beraldo, won the "Premio Torasso" Award, AIxIA 2020

Gloria Beraldo, Ph.D. student at DEI under the supervision of Prof. Emanuele Menegatti and prof. Luca Tonin, won the "Premio Torasso" Award - PhD student edition during the conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AIxIA 2020 (https://aixia2020.di.unito.it/awards/premio-pietro-torasso). The award is for the best video explaining the contribution to Artificial intelligence field in the PhD student's thesis.

14/11/2020 - Nunzio Camerlingo(PhD student of the 34th cycle, curriculum Bioenginnering)  received the Gold Student Research Award at the Diabetes Technology Meeting 2020

Nunzio Camerlingo(PhD student of the 34th cycle, curriculum Bioenginnering)  received the Gold Student Research Award at the Diabetes Technology Meeting 2020 (Bethesda, November 12-14, 2020) for the work "Determining the Optimal Duration of a Clinical Trial Having Time-in-ranges as Final Endpoints"  (coauthored with M. Vettoretti, A. Facchinetti, G. Sparacino, J.K. Mader, P. Choudhary, and S. Del Favero, on behalf of the Hypo-RESOLVE Consortium)

7/09/2020 - Chiara Roversi, Jacopo Pavan and Francesco Prendin (and their respective teams) got the gold, silver and bronze medals at the GNB

Chiara Roversi was the co-leader of the team which won the gold medal at the datathon at the 39th Annual School of the GNB (Gruppo Nazionale di Bioingegneria)  "AI-enabled health care: from decision support to autonomous robots" held in September 7-10. 2020. On the same occasion, Jacopo Pavan and Francesco Prendin were members of the teams awarded with the silver and bronze medal, respectively. Chiara, Jacopo and Francesco are PhD students of the 35th cycle, curriculum Bioenginnering

7/09/2020 - Giacomo Cappon (PhD of the 32th cycle, curriculum Bioenginnering, and presently "B-junior" postdoc) received the GNB Award 2020 " Alberto Mazzoldi" for his PhD thesis

Giacomo Cappon (PhD of the 32th cycle, curriculum Bioenginnering, and presently "B-junior" postdoc) received the GNB Award 2020 " Alberto Mazzoldi" for his PhD thesis "Open-loop insulin dosing personalization in type 1 diabetes using continuous glucose monitoring data and patient characteristics" (supervisor G.Sparacino, co-supervisor A.Facchinetti)

12/2020 - Riccardo Veronese, PhD student of the XXXIII cycle (advisor Luca Palmieri), is the ex-aequo winner of the Carlo Giacomo Someda Prize

Riccardo Veronese, PhD student of the XXXIII cycle (advisor Luca Palmieri), is the ex-aequo winner of the Carlo Giacomo Someda Prize for the best presentation in the "Photonics" field reserved for under 35s at the National Meeting of Electromagnetics.

12/2020 - Prof. Gianluigi Pillonetto, has beel elected to the IEEE Fellow class 2021

Prof. Gianluigi Pillonetto, has beel elected to the IEEE Fellow class 2021 with the citation "for contributions to kernel-based linear system identification" (https://italy.ieeer8.org/congratulations-to-the-new-ieee-fellow-2021/)

12/2020 - Prof. Michele Zorzi got the IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks (TCCN)

Prof. Michele Zorzi got the IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks (TCCN)  Recognition Award for 2020 (https://cn.committees.comsoc.org/awards/)

20/11/2020 - Teng Ma (PhD student), Stefano Bonaldo, Simone Gerardin, and Alessandro Paccagnella, has received the Best Student Abstract Award at RADECS 2020

The paper “TID Degradation Mechanisms in 16 nm Bulk FinFETs Irradiated to Ultra-High Doses” produced by a collaboration between the RREACT group at DEI and University of Milano Bicocca and INFN-Milano, University and INFN Bergamo, and EPFL, Lausanne, presented by Teng Ma (Ph.D. student at DEI, supervisor Alessandro Paccagnella), and coauthored by Stefano Bonaldo, Simone Gerardin, and Alessandro Paccagnella, has received the Best Student Abstract Award at the conference “Radiation and its Effects on Components and Systems conference - RADECS 2020”, virtually held in Vannens, France, from October 19 to November 20, 2020

11/2020 - Francesco Bettella, Luca Tonin, Gloria Beraldo, Stefano Tortora, Emanuele Menegatti (WHI Team) are the winner of the Brain-Computer Interface Race discipline at the Cybathon 2020 Global Edition

Francesco Bettella, Luca Tonin, Gloria Beraldo, Stefano Tortora, Emanuele Menegatti (WHI Team) are the winner of the Brain-Computer Interface Race discipline at the Cybathon 2020 Global Edition, the international neurorobotic championship in which people with physical disabilities compete against each other to complete everyday tasks using state-​of-the-art technical assistance systems (https://cybathlon.ethz.ch/en/event/results)

11/2020 - Stefano Bonaldo (postdoc at DEI) has received the “Emilio Gatti and Franco Manfredi Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in Radiation Instrumentation” for his PhD thesis

Stefano Bonaldo, former Ph.D. student and now postdoc at DEI (supervisor Alessandro Paccagnella), has received the “Emilio Gatti and Franco Manfredi Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in Radiation Instrumentation” - fourth edition, issued in memory of prof. Emilio Gatti and prof. Franco Manfredi by the IEEE NPS Italy Chapter, for his Ph.D. thesis work entitled “Total Ionizing Dose Degradation Mechanisms in Nanometer-scale Microelectronic Technologie

12/09/2020 -Cristina Zanin (former MSc student in Bioengineering) received the GNB Award 2020  “Novel Trends in Biomedical Engineering - IEEE Italy Section"

Cristina Zanin (former MSc student in Bioengineering) received the GNB Award 2020  “Novel Trends in Biomedical Engineering - IEEE Italy Section" for her MSc thesis entitled "Graph Convolutional Networks for static and dynamic functional connectivity: An application to the Autism Spectrum Disorder" (supervisor A.Bertoldo)

11/2020 - Giacomo Baruzzo,  Marco Cappellato, Sebastian Daberdaku, Barbara Di Camillo,  Ilaria Patuzzi, Filippo Pietrobon, Mehdi Poursheikhali Asghari are among the winners of the Metagenomics Diagnosis for IBD Challenge (MEDIC)

Giacomo Baruzzo,  Marco Cappellato, Sebastian Daberdaku, Barbara Di Camillo,  Ilaria Patuzzi, Filippo Pietrobon, Mehdi Poursheikhali Asghari (@DEI.UNIPD team) are among the winners of the Metagenomics Diagnosis for IBD Challenge (MEDIC), aimed to investigate the diagnostic potential of metagenomics data to classify patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and non-IBD subjects (https://www.intervals.science/resources/sbv-improver/medic ) 

11/2020 - Prof. Michele Zorzi have been selected as the recipient of the IEEE Communications Society JosephLoCicero Award

Prof. Michele Zorzi have been selected as the recipient of the IEEE Communications Society JosephLoCicero Award for Exemplary Service to Publications. The  citation will read: “For exemplary services to Communications Society publications

14/10/2020 - G. Beraldo, S. Tortora, E. Menegatti, L. Tonin got the 3rd place as Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE SMC

Best Student Paper Award (3rd Place) for paper ““ROS-Neuro: implementation of a closed-loop BMI based on motor imagery” G. Beraldo, S. Tortora, E. Menegatti, L. Tonin which has been presented at the IEEE SMC 10th Workshop on Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) Systems

11/09/2020 - , D. Evangelista, M. Terreran, A. Pretto, M. Moro, C. Ferrari, E. Menegatti won the Best (Work in Progress) Paper Award at ETFA 2020

Best (Work in Progress) Paper Award in the category of Emerging Technologies for paper “3D Mapping of X-Ray Images in Inspection of Aerospace Parts”, D. Evangelista, M. Terreran, A. Pretto, M. Moro, C. Ferrari, E. Menegatti which has been presented at the ETFA2020 conference in Wien - Austria. 

10/2020 - Prof. Michele Zorzi, has been  Elected in the IEEE Communications Society Board of Governors for the next period 2021-2023

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.

10/2020 - Qing Liu, PhD student got the *IEEE Women in Engineering Award*  for her PhD Thesis

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

17/09/2020 - Nicola Ferro (professor, DEI) together with Marco Ferrante (professor, Dept. of Mathematics), received the *Best Paper Award at the 6th ACM SIGIR

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

06/08/2020 - 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

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".

12/09/2020 - Alessandra Galli, dottoranda al DEI, vince il Premio Cènnamo al IV Forum Nazionale delle Misure il lavoro

Alessandra Galli, dottoranda del DEI, ha vinto il Premio Cènnamo presentando al IV Forum Nazionale delle Misure il lavoro:
"Sistema di monitoraggio continuo del battito cardiaco fetale tramite l'impiego di elettrodi capacitivi non invasivi"
 

24/07/2020 - Z. Sun, A. Rodà, E. Whiting, E. Faresin, G. Salemi - Best paper award at Conf. on Culture and Computing, Copenhagen

Zezhou Sun, Antonio Rodà, Emily Whiting, Emanuela Faresin, Giuseppe Salemi in collaborationwith the Dept. of Computer Science of the Boston University and the  Dip. Beni Culturali di Unipd got the Best paper award  for the article "3D Virtual Reconstruction and Sound Simulation of an Ancient Roman Brass Musical Instrument" at 8th Int. Conf. on Culture and Computing, held in Copenhagen (in virtual format) from 19 to 24 July 2020.

08/2020 - A. Mazzetto gets the 2020 award: Premio per la miglior tesi magistrale in informatica teorica(edizione 2020 - EATCS

Alessio Mazzetto, our MS student in Ingegneria Informatica under the supervision of Andrea Pietracaprina and Geppino Pucci (Now is a graduate student within the CS Department Brown University) , got the 2020 award for  “Premio per la miglior tesi magistrale in informatica teorica(edizione 2020) del Capitolo Italiano dell’EATCS (European Association for Theoretical Computer Science)”.

17/07/2020 - L.Ballotta gest the Young Author Prize, IFAC 2020

Luca Ballotta got the Young Author Prize al IFAC World Congress 2020, prize given to the "best paper of which the first and presenting author has the PhD-student status at the time of paper submission and is the main contributor of the research results in the paper" with the paper "From Sensor to Processing Networks: Optimal Estimation with Computation and Communication Latency" by Luca Ballotta, Luca Schenato, Luca Carlone "

 

18/06/2020 - Tommaso Zugno* (PhD student), Michele Polese (former DEI postdoc, now at Northeastern University), Natale Patriciello (CTTC), Biljana Bojovic (CTTC), Sandra Lagen (CTTC), and Michele Zorzi (professor) received the *Best Paper Award* at WNS3

Tommaso Zugno* (PhD student), Michele Polese (former DEI postdoc, now at Northeastern University), Natale Patriciello (CTTC), Biljana Bojovic (CTTC), Sandra Lagen (CTTC), and Michele Zorzi (professor) received the *Best Paper Award* at the *ACM Workshop on ns-3* (WNS3), virtually held from 17 to 18 June 2020, for the paper entitled "Implementation of a Spatial Channel Model for ns-3

19/06/2020 - M. Pagin, F .Agostini, T. Zugno, M.Polese, and M. Zorzi received the *Mario Gerla Best Paper Award at MedComNet

Matteo Pagin* (Master Student, ICT), Francesco Agostini (Master Student, ICT), Tommaso Zugno (PhD student), Michele Polese (former DEI postdoc, now at Northeastern University), and Michele Zorzi (professor) received the *Mario Gerla Best Paper Award* at the *18th IEEE Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking** **Conference* (MedComNet), (virtually) held in Arona, Italy, from 17 to 19 June 2020, for the paper entitled "Enabling RAN Slicing through Carrier Aggregation in mmWave Cellular Networks

22/11/2019 - Giuliano Zambonin, former PhD student at DEI, Alessandro Beghi, Mirco Rampazzo and Gian Antonio Susto received the Best Industry Paper Award (ACD) 2019 - Bologna

Giuliano Zambonin, former PhD student at DEI, Alessandro Beghi, Mirco Rampazzo and Gian Antonio Susto received the Best Industry Paper Award during the 15th European Workshop on Advanced Control and Diagnosis (ACD) 2019 in Bologna (https://eventi.unibo.it/acd2019) with a paper titled  Data‐Driven Models for the Determination of Laundry Moisture Content in a Household Laundry Treatment Dryer Appliance. The award is recognized to "High-profile Contributions to Techniques and Technologies Empowering Industry 4.0”

23-25/10/2019 - Alberto Signori, Federico Chiarotti, Marco Giordani, Filippo Campagnaro, Nicola Laurenti and Michele Zorzi received the *Best Paper Award *at the *ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems* (WUWNet), Atlanta - USA

Alberto Signori* (PhD student), Chiara Pielli (former postdoc), Federico Chiariotti (postdoc), Marco Giordani (postdoc), Filippo Campagnaro (postdoc), Nicola Laurenti (professor) and Michele Zorzi (professor), all from DEI, received the *Best Paper Award *at the *ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems* (WUWNet), held in Atlanta (GA, USA), from 23 to 25 October 2019, for the paper entitled "Jamming the Underwater: a Game-Theoretic Analysis of Energy-Depleting Jamming Attacks

08/2019 - Stefano Bonaldo, Simone Gerardin and Alessandro Paccagnella, received the 2019 NSREC Outstanding Student Paper Award

Stefano Bonaldo (former Ph.D. student and now postdoc, DEI), together with Simone Gerardin and Alessandro Paccagnella, has received the 2019 NSREC Outstanding Student Paper Award at the Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects conference - NSREC 2019, held in San Antonio, US, for the paper entitled “Total-Ionizing-Dose Effects and Low-Frequency Noise in 16-nm InGaAs FinFETs With HfO2/Al2O3 Dielectrics”, produced through a collaboration between the RREACT group at DEI, Vanderbilt University, TN - USA, and IMEC, Belgium.

25/10/2019 - A. Signori, C.Pielli, F.Chiarotti, M.Giordani, F.Campagnaro, N. Laurenti, M.Zorzi - Best Paper at ACM 2019, Atlanta

Alberto Signori (PhD student), Chiara Pielli (former postdoc), Federico Chiariotti (postdoc), Marco Giordani 
(postdoc), Filippo Campagnaro (postdoc), Nicola Laurenti (professor) and Michele Zorzi(professor), all from 
DEI, received the Best Paper Award at the ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems 
(WUWNet), held in Atlanta (GA, USA), from 23 to 25 October 2019, for the paper entitled "Jamming the 
Underwater: a Game-Theoretic Analysis of Energy-Depleting Jamming Attacks". 

22/10/2019 - Marco Giordani Best Research Project Award at the DIGITAL MEET 2019

Marco Giordani, formerly PhD student at DEI under the supervision of Prof. Michele Zorzi (currently post doc and aggregate professor at DEI), received the Best Research Project Award in terms of "technology transfer and business impact” during the DIGITAL MEET 2019, a national scientific divulgation event organized by HIT with the co-sponsorship of DEI (https://digitalmeet.it/tutto-pronto-per-brains-meet-digital-enterprises/), with a project titled  Towards Internet-of-Everyone: the Potential of Non-Terrestrial Communication.

26/09/2019 - Carlo De Santi (assistant professor at DEI) Best Paper Award at the 30th ESREF 2019

Carlo De Santi (assistant professor at DEI)  received the Best Paper Award at the 30th European Symposium on Reliability of Electron Devices, Failure Physics and Analysis (ESREF 2019), held in Toulouse (France), from 23 to 26 September 2019, for the paper entitled: “Stability and degradation of isolation and surface in Ga2O3 devices” by C. De Santi, A. Nardo, M. H. Wong, K. Goto, A. Kuramata, S. Yamakoshi, H. Murakami, Y. Kumagai, M. Higashiwaki, G. Meneghesso, E. Zanoni, M. Meneghini.

23/10/2019 - Dennis Dosso best presentation award a the "9th PhD Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA)

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

23/10/2019 - Roberto Barumerli, won the "Best Paper and Presentation Award for Young Researchers” at the European Acoustics Association (EAA) Congress

Roberto Barumerli, won the "Best Paper and Presentation Award for Young Researchers” at the European Acoustics Association (EAA), 23rd International Congress on Acoustics, Aachen, Germania intitolato "Auditory models comparison for horizontal localization of concurrent speakers in adverse acoustic scenarios”, with the authors:  Roberto BARUMERLI, Andrea ALMENARI, Michele GERONAZZO, Giorgio Maria DI NUNZIO, and Federico AVANZINI.

28/09/2019 - Francesca Marturano (PhD student) Best Student Paper Award at the 15th MEDICON 2019

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.

25/09/2019 - Francesco Bettella won the Gold Medal at the BCI Race of Cybathlon 2019

Francesco Bettella member of the WHi Team within the IAS-Lab at DEI (Prof. Emanuele Menegatti) won the Gold Medal at the BCI Race of Cybathlon 2019 in Graz (Austria). see Cybathlon
 

12/09/2019 - Jacopo Pavan (about to start a PhD) best MSc thesis at the 38th Annual School of GNB

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.

12/09/2019 - Nunzio Camerlingo (PhD student) Best Pitch Award at the 38th Annual School of GNB

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. Olivastrelli (Università Politecnica delle Marche).

12/09/2019 - Giada Acciaroli (former PhD student) best PhD thesis at the 38th Annual School of GNB

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.

06/09/2019 - Luca Varotto, Ph.D. student won the CORSMAL Challenge

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.

28/7/2019 Stefano Vitturi è stato Chief Guest Editor for the Proceedings of the IEEE

 Stefano Vitturi, senior researcher of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), head of the CNR territorial site located at DEI, has served as Chief Guest Editor for the Proceedings of the IEEE, for the Special Issue on "Real-Time Networks and Protocols for Factory Automation and Process Control Systems". The Special Issue, published on Volume 109, Number 6, comprises 13 invited papers, two of them authored by two former PhD students at DEI.

28/7/2019 Stefano Bonaldo vince IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Paul Phelps Award

Stefano Bonaldo, Ph.D. student at DEI under the supervision of Prof. Alessandro Paccagnella, received the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Paul Phelps Award, announced during the Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference – NSREC 2019, San Antonio - TX, USA, July 8-12, 2019. The award was given for his exceptional work as a graduate student in the field of Nuclear and Plasma Science Society.

28/7/2019 Alessandra Galli vince Best Paper Award at the 2019 IEEE M&N

Alessandra Galli,  Ph.D. student at DEI under the supervision of Prof.  Giada Giorgi, received the Best Paper Award at the 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Measurement and Networking (M&N 2019) held in Catania, Italy, 8-10 July 2019 with the paper entitled: "Multi-User ECG Monitoring System based on IEEE Standard 802.15.6", - Authors: A. Galli, G. Giorgi and C. Narduzzi.

8/7/2019 Riccardo Fantinel received the Most Innovative Application at QCAV 2019

Riccardo Fantinel, Ph.D. student at DEI under the supervision of Prof. Angelo Cenedese received the  Most Innovative Application at the 2019 International Conference on Quality Control by Artificial Vision  (QCAV 2019), held in Mulhouse from 15 to 17 May 2019, with the paper entitled "Visual inspection for metallic surfaces: CNN driven by features" - authors:  Riccardo Fantinel and Angelo Cenedese.

8/7/2019 Michele Berno received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE FMEC 2019

Michele Berno Ph.D. student at DEI under the supervision of Prof. Michele Rossi received the Best Paper Award at the  IEEE International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2019), held on  June 10-13, Rome, Italy, 2019 with a  paper entitled "On the Allocation of Computing Tasks under QoS Constraints in Hierarchical MEC Architectures -  Authors:  Michele Berno, Juan José Alcaraz Espín, Michele Rossi.

8/7/2019 Daniel Zucchetto received the 2019 GTTI PhD award

Daniel Zucchetto, (ex) Ph.D. student at DEI under the supervision of Andrea Zanella received the 2019 GTTI PhD award for PhD Theses in the field of Communication Technologies  with the thesis entitled  "Solutions for large scale, efficient, and secure Internet of Things"

8/7/2019 Mattia Rebato received the 2019 GTTI Francesco Carassa 2019 for the best paper

Mattia Rebato, Ph.D. student at DEI under the supervision of Prof. Michele Zorzi, receive the 2019 GTTI Francesco Carassa 2019 for the best paper presented in the "transmission" section, with a paper entitled  "MIMO Precoding, Tilting and Antenna Optimization in mmWave Cellular Networks".

8/7/2019 Alvise De Biasio, Federico Chiariotti and Michele Polese received the Best Paper Award at WNS3 2019

Alvise De Biasio, Federico ChiariottiandMichele Polese PhD and researchers at DEI, received the Best Paper Award at the  Workshop on Next-Generation Wireless with ns-3 (WNS3) 2019, 21 June 2019, Florence, Ital, with a paper entitled: "A QUIC Implementation for ns-3", - Authors: A. De Biasio, F. Chiariotti and M. Polese, A. Zanella e M. Zorzi

20/05/2019 - Qiuchi Li, Benyou Wang received the Best Explainable NLP Paper (NAACL)

Qiuchi Li, Benyou Wang, Ph.D. students at DEI under the supervision of Prof. Massimo Melucci received the 
Best Explainable NLP Paper  with the paper entitled "CNM: An Interpretable Complex-valued Network for Matching” 
authors:  Qiuchi Li, Benyou Wang e Massimo Melucci  at the 2019 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter 
of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL).   Qiuchi e Benyou are also  Eaarly Stage Researchers 
within the European Network QUARTZ - Marie Curie di Horizon 2020, of which Melucci is the project coordinator.

20/05/2019 - Dennis Dosso, Ph.D Student, Best doctoral consortium paper award ECIR 2019

Dennis Dosso, Ph.D. student at DEI Under the supervision of Prof. Gianmaria Silvello received the
best doctoral consortium paper award at the "41st European Conference in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2019)” 
held in Koln from 15 to 18 April 2019, with a paper entitled "Keyword Search on RDF Datasets”. 

20/05/2019 - Michele Zorzi, received the 2019 Best Tutorial Paper Award

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. 

20/05/2019 - Nadeem Ahmed Malik, Ph.D. received the BEST STUDENT PAPER at the SPIE conference Optics+Optoelectronics 2019

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

20/05/2019 Tommaso Zugno Ph.D.has been accepted to participate in the Google Summer of Code 2019 program

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. Students work on a 3 month programming project with an open source organization during their 
break from university (https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/). 

20/05/2019 Domenico Salvagnin received a couple of recognition at two prestigious conferences

- 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. Salvagnin, presented at the 
   International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) held July 11-15 in Berkeley (CA), USA.

08/01/2019 Marco Avesani vince il miglior talk a Young IQIS2018 (Catania)

Marco Avesani, dottorando DEI presso il gruppo QuantumFuture,  ha vinto il miglior talk a Young IQIS2018 (Catania) parlando sul tema  "Source-device-independent heterodyne-based quantum random number generator at 17 Gbps”
che è anche il lavoro che verrà pubblicato a brevissimo su Nature Comms. I coautori di Marco, oltre al collega Pino Vallone e a me includono Davide Marangon, già dottorando DEI e ora Marie-Curie Fellow a Cambridge. Con questo lavoro viene esteso il valore di velocità di generazione di numeri casuali da processi quantistici - detti source-independent, portandolo appunto a 17 giga-bit-per-second, per il quale abbiamo depositato un brevetto.

08/01/2019 Costantino Agnesi vince miglior poster alla 2nd International Conference on Integrated Quantum Photonics - 2018, Paris

Costantino Agnesi, dottorando DEI presso il gruppo QuantumFuture, ha vinto il miglior poster alla 2nd International Conference on Integrated Quantum Photonics - 2018, Paris, con il titolo: "Towards integrated platforms for quantum communications based on Hong-Ou-Mandel interference” Il lavoro apparirà a breve su Optics Letters, ed è una collaborazione scientifica con il DTU a Copenhagen, il Politecnico di Milano e il gruppo QuantumFuture.

08/01/2019 Sebastian Daberdaku ha avuto il "PeerJ Award for the ‘Best Contribution by an Early Career Researcher’ at BBCC2018

Sebastian Daberdaku (assegnista di ricerca ) ha ricevuto il  "PeerJ Award for the ‘Best Contribution by an Early Career Researcher’ at BBCC2018,  conferenza internazionale su Bioinformatica e Biologia Computazionale", svoltasi a Napoli i giorni scorsi, per l'articolo "Identification of protein pockets and cavities by Euclidean Distance Transform" di cui è singolo autore L'attività di Sebastian che ha portato a questo risultato è da riferirsi nell'assegno di ricerca junior "Models and Algorithms for Protein-Protein Docking", responsabile scientifico, Carlo Ferrari.

Paolo Scaramuzza, dottorando del DEI presso il gruppo ICARUS, con supervisori Andrea Neviani e Andrea Bevilacqua.  ha vinto il terzo posto alla "2018 Huawei Italy Challenge" tenutasi a Pavia il 22 Novembre 2018, con il lavoro intitolato "Class-J SiGe X-Band Power Amplifier Using a Ladder Filter-Based AM-PM Distortion Reduction Technique". L'iniziativa promossa da Huawei al fine di promuovere la ricerca nel campo dei circuiti integrati analogici, RF, mmWave e transceiver ottici premiava i primi cinque classificati con un viaggio in Cina (Shenzhen & Shanghai) dal 15 al 22 Dicembre 2018.

Eleonora Canato, ha ricevuto il Best Paper Award alla conferenza 29th European Symposium on Reliability of Electron Devices, Failure Physics and Analysis in Aalborg tenutasi in Danimarca dal 1 al 5 Ottobre 2018, con il lavoro intitolato "Impact of sidewall etching on the dynamic performance of GaN-on-Si E-mode transistors". Altri autori del DEI: Alaleh Tajalli, Eleonora Canato, Arianna Nardo, Matteo Meneghini, Enrico Zanoni, Gaudenzio Meneghesso,

Giulia Mansutti  in occasione dell'open day "Brains meet DIGITAL ENTERPRISES" tenutosi il 25 ottobre scorso presso l'orto botanico di Padova, ha vinto il Best Paper Award con il lavoro "Design of Innovative Antenna Systems for Early-Stage Skin Cancer Detection".  Foto della premiazione al link: http://hit.psy.unipd.it/events

 

Carlo de Santi si è classificato secondo al Brains Meet DIGITAL ENTERPRISES con il lavoro intitolato "Laser-based wireless power transfer". Altri co-autori del DEI: A. Caria, M. Meneghini, G. Meneghesso, E. Zanoni.

Il paper presentato da Tommaso Favaron (laureato del DEI) intitolato "Computer says ‘no’: initial experience with automated qualitative analysis of enhancement components on contrast-enhanced ultrasound for differentiating focal testicular lesions", con autori Dean Y. Huan, Tommaso Favaron, Enrico Grisan, Robert E. Eckersley, Paul S. Sidhu, è stato insignito del premio per  Best Oral Presentation al 2nd ESUR course of the Scrotal and Penile Imaging Working Group on “Multimodality Imaging Approach to Scrotal and Penile Pathologies’’ October 04-06, 2018, Athens, Greece

A Marco Giordani e' stata assegnato il 2018 Daniel E. Noble Fellowship Award della IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, "For Outstanding Student Research Contributions to Intelligent and Connected Transportation Systems," che Marco ha personalmente ritirato durante la IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference a fine Agosto 2018 a Chicaco.

A Davide Magrin e' stato assegnato uno dei progetti della "Google Summer of Code," un'iniziativa molto competitiva promossa da Google a livello globale, per un progetto su "A simulation execution manager for ns-3" sponsorizzato da "The ns-3 Network Simulator Project." Il progetto e' stato (ovviamente) svolto durante l'estate ed e' terminato con successo qualche settimana fa.

Nicola Trivellin  ha vinto il Best Poster Award alla conferenza “16th International Symposium on the Science and Technology of Lighting”, con l’articolo "Phosphors for laser baser lighting systems: quantitative investigation of performance and degradation processes”. Gli autori del lavoro sono N. Trivellin, M. Buffolo, L. Bogo, C. De Santi, A. Longato, A. Martucci, G. Meneghesso, E. Zanoni e M.  Meneghini.

Maria Stella Ruzzarin ha vinto il Best Student Paper alla conferenza “IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium” (IRPS2018), con l’articolo in collaborazione con MIT di Boston dal titolo “Degradation of Vertical GaN FETs under Gate and Drain Stress”. Gli autori del lavoro sono M. Ruzzarin, M. Meneghini, C. De Santi, G. Meneghesso, E. Zanoni, M. Sun e T. Palacios.
 

Il nostro dottorando Sebastiano Verde (supervisionato da Simone Milani) ha vinto il Best Poster Award for scientific value grazie ad un lavoro intitolato “Phylogenetic Analysis of Multimedia Codec Software” presso la S3P 2018 Summer School on Signal Processing (scuola di dottorato sponsorizzata da Eurasip, dalla IEEE Signal Processing Society e dal CNIT).

Marco Centenaro, dottorando di Lorenzo Vangelista, che ha finito il dottorato da poco e che è in attesa della proclamazione (anche come Doctor Europaeus).
Marco ha vinto il GTTI PhD Award per la sua tesi. Questo riconoscimento viene conferito dal Gruppo Telecomunicazioni e Teoria dell’Informazione alle tre migliori tesi di dottorato dell’anno.

Morris Antonello, ex dottorando di Stefano Ghidoni, ha vinto lo IEEE ABB PhD Thesis Award per la sua tesi di dottorato svolta al DEI.

Alla conferenza European Control Conference il nostro ex-dottorando Giacomo Baggio ha vinto il Best Student Paper Award per l’articolo “On the Relation between Non-Normality and Diameter in Linear Dynamical Networks” di G. Baggio e S. Zampieri.

Alla conferenza “International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks” è stato premiato con il best paper award il lavoro “Beamformer design and power allocation for two-cluster two-user NOMA system” di C. Piccoli, S. Tomasin, and E. Jorswieck. Si tratta del frutto del lavoro di tesi magistrale del dott. Carlo Piccoli svolta presso il DEI e presso la TU di Dresda.

Il nostro assegnista Simone Spagnol è risultato vincitore di una Marie Curie Individual Fellowship presso Aalborg University Copenhagen. Simone ha svolto il dottorato al DEI sotto la supervisione di Federico Avanzini e Giovanni De Poli. Ha avuto poi vari contratti post-doc tra cui uno triennale presso la University of Iceland nell’ambito di un progetto EU. E` appena tornato al DEI dopo essersi classificato primo in graduatoria nell’ultimo bando Assegni B.

Sebastiano Verde, studente di dottorato del DEI supervisionato da Simone Milani, ha vinto il Best Demo Runner Up Award al workshop GTTI - Thematic Meeting on Multimedia Signal Processing 2018 tenutosi a Cavalese (TN). Il premio è stato conferito per lavoro S. Verde, S. Milani, “Multimedia Phylogeny - an application to near-duplicate audio tracks".

I due lavori vincitori ex aequo dell’Outstanding Conference Paper Award alla IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference 2017, hanno entrambi come autori membri del DEI. Si tratta di

“Effects of Heavy-Ion Irradiation in Vertical 3-D NAND Flash Memories,” di Marta Bagatin, Simone Gerardin, Alessandro Paccagnella, et al. - una collaborazione guidata dal DEI che coinvolge Micron Technology e l’Agenzia Spaziale Europea (ESA)

e di

“Influence of LDD Spacers and H+ Transport on the Total-Ionizing-Dose Response of 65-nm MOSFETs Irradiated to Ultrahigh Doses,” un lavoro coordinato dal CERN, con la partecipazione della Vanderbilt University e di UniPD nelle persone di Simone Gerardin, Alessandro Paccagnella e Stefano Bonaldo.

E’ la prima volta che si realizza un ex aequo per l’outstanding paper award nei 53 anni di vita di questa prestigiosa conferenza e il fatto che sia un ex aequo fra due contributi che vedono membri del DEI è di particolare prestigio per il Dipartimento.

Il lavoro “On handling indicator constraints in mixed integer programming” che ha tra gli autori Domenico Salvagnin, Michele Monaci e Matteo Fischetti, ha vinto il Best Paper Award per il 2016 per la rivista internazionale “Computational Optimization and Applications (COAP)”.


http://www.dei.unipd.it/~fisch/papers/2016_COAP_best_paper_award.pdf

Il paper “Complete Loss of Functionality and Permanent Page Fails in NAND Flash Memories” frutto di una collaborazione tra il DEI, GSI e DSI in Germania e l’Agenzia Spaziale Europea in Olanda, con primi tre autori S. Gerardin, M. Bagatin e A. Paccagnella si è aggiudicato il “Best Paper Award” alla conferenza RADiation and its Effects on Components and Systems (RADECS) 2016 a Brema in Germania. Il successo è stato completato con l’assegnazione alla stessa conferenza del “Best Poster Award” al paper “Heavy-ion Upset Immunity of RRAM Cells Based on Thin HfO2 Layers”, una collaborazione tra CEA-LETI in Francia, DEI, e Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, con primo autore M. Alayan, di CEA -LETI, e a seguire M. Bagatin, S. Gerardin e A. Paccagnella del DEI.

L’articolo “Are IR Evaluation Measures on an Interval Scale?” di Marco Ferrante, Nicola Ferro e Silvia Pontarollo, ha vinto il best paper award a ICTIR 2017, la ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval. Si tratta del frutto di una collaborazione tra DEI e il Dipartimento di Matematica.

L’articolo “Improving elevation perception with a tool for image-guided Head-Related Transfer Function selection” di Michele Geronazzo (gia` nostro dottorando e assegnista, e fresco vincitore di un post-doc grant a Aalborg University Copenhagen), Enrico Peruch, Fabio Prandoni (nostri tesisti magistrali) e Federico Avanzini, ha vinto il terzo Best Paper Award alla Int. Conf. on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx). I quattro articoli premiati verranno pubblicati in versione estesa sul Journal of the Audio Engineering Society.

Marco Giordani, dottorando del DEI, è risultato vincitore del “Best Student Paper and Presentation Award” per la categoria "Communications" all'IEEE International Conference on Modern Circuits and Systems Technologies (MOCAST), che si è tenuta a Thessaloniki a maggio 2017. Il lavoro si intitola “Millimeter Wave Communication in Vehicular Networks: Challenges and Opportunities” e, insieme a Marco, ne sono autori Andrea Zanella e Michele Zorzi.

Silvia Ceccato, nostra dottoranda del 32o ciclo, e` risultata tra i vincitrici nel Concorso “Una tesi per la sicurezza nazionale”, istituito dalla Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri - Sistema di informazione per la sicurezza della Repubblica. Il concorso, giunto alla seconda edizione, assegna 10 premi alle migliori tesi di laurea magistrale discusse nell’anno 2016. La tesi di Silvia (di cui e’ stato relatore Nicola Laurenti) ha come titolo “A Key Management Scheme for Access Control to GNSS Services”.

Il premio "2014-2016 Automatica Paper Prize Award" e’ stato assegnato all’articolo “A new kernel-based approach to hybrid system identification” del quale il nostro Gianluigi Pillonetto e’ unico autore.

Tommaso Caldognetto, dottore di ricerca del DEI, ha ottenuto, ex-aequo con Massimilano Coppo (dottorando al DII), il premio per la miglior tesi di dottorato assegnato dal Chapter Power Electronics PE31 dell’IEEE Italy Section.

L’Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association ha conferito il Sadaoki Furui Prize Paper Award 2016 all’articolo “An overview on video forensics”, Simone Milani, Marco Fontani, Paolo Bestagini, Mauro Barni, Alessandro Piva, Marco Tagliasacchi and Stefano Tubaro, pubblicato su APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing.

Giada Acciaroli (dottoranda del ciclo 31) ha vinto il “Gold Prize of the Diabetes Technology Society Student Research Award” per il suo lavoro “Good Accuracy of CGM-based Glucose Variability Indices for IGT and T2D Classification”. Giada ha ritirato il premio durante il “16th Annual Diabetes Technology Meeting" tenutosi a Bethesda lo scorso novembre.

Il team PACMAN dell’Universita’ di Padova (DEI/DII) e’ stato selezionato per partecipare al programma ESA Fly Your Thesis! 2017, che prevede di progettare, costruire e testare il proprio esperimento in una campagna di volo parabolico in condizioni di microgravita’. Il team PACMAN e’ composto da alcuni studenti delle magistrali, da Matteo Duzzi e Mattia Mazzucato, dottorandi del CISAS, e dai proff. Alessandro Francesconi ed Enrico Lorenzini del DII, e Angelo Cenedese del DEI. Il progetto proposto consiste nello sviluppo di un dimostratore per validare in condizioni di micro-gravita' un sistema integrato di navigazione e attracco basato su interazioni magnetiche per satelliti (cubesat) o veicoli spaziali di piccole dimensioni.

Alla nostra collega Prof.ssa Maristella Agosti e’ stato conferito il Tony Kent Strix Award 2016. Si tratta di un premio molto prestigioso nel settore del reperimento dell’informazione e delle biblioteche digitali, istituito nel 1998, e che è stato assegnato a personalità di grande spicco di quel settore (http://www.cilip.org.uk/uk-einformation-group/awards-and-bursaries/tony-kent-strix-award/tony-kent-strix-award-winners).

Alberto Giaretta, assegnista in forze presso il gruppo di bioingegneria, ha vinto il Best Talk Award con una presentazione dal titolo: “Modeling HPV early promoter gene expression” all’ International Synthetic and Systems Biology Summer School (SSBSS) che si è tenuta a Volterra dall’8 al 14 luglio.

L’articolo “Gamification for Machine Learning: The Classification Game” di Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Maria Maistro (dottoranda XXX ciclo), e Daniel Zilio (recentemente laureato magistrale in Ingegneria Informatica con relatore Maristella Agosti) ha vinto il Best Paper Award al 3rd International Workshop on Gamification for Information Retrieval svoltosi durante il 39th International ACM SIGIR 2016 a Pisa.

L’articolo dal titolo “An innovative approach to Rate Adaptation in IEEE 802.11 real-time networks” di Alessandro Tramarin (CNR-IEIIT), Stefano Vitturi (CNR-IEIIT) e Michele Luvisotto (nostro dottorando) e’ risultato vincitore del Best Paper Award per la conferenza IEEE World Conference on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS 2016).

L’articolo dal titolo “On the Effects of Battery Imperfections in an Energy Harvesting Device” di Alessandro Biason (nostro dottorando) e Michele Zorzi e’ risultato vincitore del Best Paper Award per la conferenza ICNC’16.

Il nostro collega Andrea Galtarossa e’ stato eletto fellow (l’unico italiano tra i 77 nuovi eletti) dell’Optical Society of America (OSA) che e’ la societa’ di riferimento per chi lavora in ottica e fotonica.

Nel mosaico che ritrae gli 8 lavori individuati come Highlights del 2015 dall'American Physical Society, assieme alla scoperta del pentaquark, si nota il satellite LARETS (il secondo in alto a sinistra), con il quale il gruppo di Fotonica Quantistica (Giuseppe Vallone, Davide Bacco, Daniele Dequal, Simone Gaiarin, Vincenza Luceri, Giuseppe Bianco, and Paolo Villoresi) ha dimostrato la prima comunicazione quantistica dallo Spazio. Gli Highlights sono stati annunciati ieri sera, nel sito della loro rivista online Physics e viene brevemente descritto il contributo del gruppo citando l'Ateneo patavino e l'ASI, presso il cui Osservatorio MLRO sono stati compiuti gli esperimenti.

PRESS: Photons have been used to securely transmit quantum encryption keys over more than 300 kilometers of optical fiber. Ultimately light attenuation limits how far a fiber can transmit a signal without degrading its quantum properties. But satellite-to-Earth links might soon open new frontiers for quantum communication. Researchers from the University of Padua and the Matera Laser Ranging Observatory of the Italian Space Agency, both in Italy, demonstrated that qubits encoded in photons can preserve their fragile quantum properties even after a trip from satellites at a distance more than two thousand kilometers from Earth (See Viewpoint: Sending Quantum Messages Through Space). The authors encoded qubits exploiting the photons’ polarization and sent them to five satellites that bounced the light back to Earth. After the long journey, different qubit states could be distinguished reliably enough for quantum protocols to be viable.

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v8/126

D. Bisi, A. Stocco, I. Rossetto, M. Meneghini, F. Rampazzo, G. Meneghesso e E. Zanoni hanno vinto il Best Paper Award alla conferenza 26th European Symposium on Reliability of Electron Devices, Failure Physics and Analysis (ESREF 2015), tenutasi a Toulouse (France) dal 5 al 9 ottobre 2015 con un lavoro dal titolo “Effects of Buffer Compensation Strategies on the Electrical Performance and Rf Reliability of AlGaN/GaN HEMTs”.

L’articolo “Designing Intelligent Energy Harvesting Communication Systems” di D. Gunduz, K. Stamatiou, N. Michelusi, and M. Zorzi pubblicato dall’IEEE Communications Magazine nel gennaio 2014 e’ stato selezionato come “hot paper” dall’Essential Science Indicators. Questo riconoscimento viene assegnato a lavori che stanno nel top 0.1% tra le pubblicazioni degli ultimi due anni nel settore della Computer Science.

L’articolo "Under water gait analysis in parkinson’s disease” di cui appaiono tra gli autori le nostre colleghe Annamaria Guiotto e Zimi Sawacha e’ risultato il miglior lavoro clinico del XVI Congresso di Analisi del Movimento in Clinica 2015 (SIAMOC 2015). In occasione dello stesso congresso Zimi Sawacha e' stata anche eletta membro del Consiglio Direttivo della Società per il biennio 2015-2017.

Inoltre la settimana scorsa, in occasione della premiazione di StartCup Veneto 2015, il team FlatSound, composto da Jonny Favaro (neo laureato in Ingegneria Elettronica), Antonio Rizzo (nostro dottorando), Andrea Cester e anche da Vania Favaro, Giulio Furlan, Marco Pirondini (membri esterni al DEI), ha vinto il terzo premio alla fase regionale e parteciperà alla fase finale a Cosenza.

Michele Schiavon, nostro ex dottorando ed attuale assegnista e’ risultato vincitore del Premio di Dottorato "ENZO BELARDINELLI" del Gruppo Nazionale di Bioingegneria, con la sua tesi dal Titolo "Modeling the Effect of Physical Activity on Postprandial Glucose Turnover", di cui sono stata supervisore.

Durante la lunga serie di seminari ed incontri con università ed enti di ricerca cinesi che Alessandro Paccagnella e Simone Gerardin hanno tenuto nel corso dell' estate, Alessandro Paccagnella è stato insignito dell'honorary professorship all'istituto di microelettronica della Chinese Academy of Sciences, la società scientifica che raccoglie i migliori ricercatori della repubblica popolare cinese e una delle maggiori a livello mondiale.

In occasione della conferenza MEIbioeng15 Conference tenutasi a Leeds il 7/8 settembre Imi Sawacha e Annamaria Guiotto hanno vinto il Best Paper award in International Biomechanics. Il lavoro intitolato "Modelling the distribution of vertical force in multi-segment foot model “ e’ stato svolto in collaborazione con Iain Hannah e Claudia Mazzà dell’University of Sheffield.

Lo IAS-Lab (laboratorio di robotica coordinato da Enrico Pagello ed Emanulele Menegatti) ha partecipato con grande successo al primo campionato internazionale di neurorobotica, Cybathlon Rehearsal che si è svolto dal 13 al 15 Luglio a Zurigo (www.cybathlon.ethz.ch)

La squadra del IAS-Lab, il “WHi Team”, ha gareggiato nella disciplina Brain Computer Interface Race (BCI Race). La squadra era composta dal post-doc Luca Tonin, dal dottorando Roberto Bortoletto, dallo studente di ingegneria meccanica Francesco Bettella e da Emanuele Menegatti. Francesco Bettella (il pilota dello WHi Team con disabilità motoria) ha comandato, solo tramite l’uso delle sue onde celebrali elaborate da apposito software, un avatar sullo schermo che doveva gareggiare in un percorso ad ostacoli contro altri tre avatar comandati dalle altre squadre. Nella finale, raggiunta passando tutti i gironi eliminatori, il WHi Team ha fatto segnare il secondo miglior tempo tra le dodici squadre provenienti da laboratori di ricerca di tutto il mondo.

A seguito di questi ottimi risultati, lo IAS-Lab parteciperà all'evento principale che si terrà sempre a Zurigo a ottobre 2016.

Michele Geronazzo, assegnista del DEI presso il CSC - Sound and Music Computing Group, ha vinto l’edizione 2015 del premio nazionale “Gino G. Sacerdote”, attribuito dall’Associazione Italiana di Acustica (AIA) alla migliore tesi di dottorato discussa nell’anno solare 2014 su argomenti collegati all'acustica (tra cui virtual acoustics e 3D audio): http://www.acustica-aia.it/assegnati-i-premi-aia-per-ledizione-2015

Il vincitore del premio viene invitato a presentare una memoria scientifica al Convegno Nazionale annuale dell’AIA e a presentare un articolo scientifico esteso per la pubblicazione sulla Rivista Italiana di Acustica.

Matteo Fischetti ha recentemente ricevuto dalla CORS (l’Associazione Canadese di Ricerca Operativa) il Harold Larnder Prize per i suoi contributi nello sviluppo della Ricerca Operativa. http://www.cors.ca/en/prizes/ L’elenco dei precedenti vincitori del premio e’ la dimostrazione dell’importanza di questo riconoscimento.

Giuseppe Vallone e Paolo Villoresi. Si tratta della prima comunicazione quantistica da trasmettitore in orbita. Il lavoro e’ stato accettato dalla rivista Physical Review Letters.

Il lavoro è il risultato di cinque anni di ricerche finanziate dal nostro Ateneo e portate avanti sperimentalmente al Centro di Geodesia Spaziale dell'Agenzia Spaziale Italiana a Matera.

Tra gli autori del lavoro ci sono 5 ricercatori del nostro Dipartimento. Oltre a Pino e Paolo, hanno contribuito Daniele Dequal (assegnista post-doc), Davide Bacco (Dottorando CISAS fino al 2014) e Simone Gaiarin (assegnista di ricerca).

Questo risultato sta avendo risalto sia nei mezzi di informazione prettamente scientifici (l’America Physical Society ha selezionato il lavoro per essere presentato come "Viewpoint" della rivista online "Physics"), sia sulla stampa locale e nazionale. Oltre ad un articolo sul Mattino, e’ apparso anche un articolo sul sito della Repubblica

http://www.repubblica.it/scienze/2015/06/23/news/fisica_quantistica_satellite-117538419/?ref=HREC1-31

Il nostro gruppo di Ricerca Operativa ha recentemente vinto (in collaborazione con l’Università di Vienna) l’importante riconoscimento internazionale: Winner of the 11th DIMACS Implementation Challenge (http://dimacs11.cs.princeton.edu) for the best computer codes for Steiner Tree problems (codes “mozartballs”, “mozartduet” and “staynerd" developed by Matteo Fischetti, Markus Leitner, Ivana Ljubic, Martin Luipersbeck, Michele Monaci, Max Resch, Domenico Salvagnin and Markus Sinnl), 2014 .

Simone Gerardin (nuovo ricercatore del DEI), Marta Bagatin (assegnista DEI) e Alessandro Paccagnella, insieme con altri ricercatori di Micron Technology e di ESA, sono risultati i vincitori del premio “Meritorious Conference Paper Award” della conferenza “Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC)” che si è tenuta dal 14 al 18 Luglio scorso a Parigi. Il premio è stato ottenuto per il lavoro “Upsets in Phase Change Memories due to High-LET Heavy Ions Impinging at an Angle”. Il lavoro presenta la prima evidenza sperimentale e modellizzazione fisica di errori indotti da particelle ionizzanti (soft error) in memorie a cambiamento di fase, una delle tecnologie più quotate per sostituire le memorie Flash di tipo NOR nel prossimo futuro.