Research Achievements
Every year 80-120 new students enrol in the Ph.D. programme in Information Technology, and take on scientific and technological challenges in the most diverse topics in ICT and related areas. Hundreds of scientific papers and also some patents originate every year from the Ph.D. students’ hard work. They also attend national and international workshops and conferences where they can present their research results.
Colloquia Doctoralia – Pitch Presentations
At the conclusion of their studies, before the final defense, they are also invited to present their work in the Colloquia Doctoralia event, which gathers attendants from both the academic and the industrial worlds.
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Ph.D. Theses
Yearbooks
The Yearbook contains all the abstracts of the Ph.D. theses discussed in one academic year.
Research Awards
Best Thesis Awards
The Chorafas prize
The Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation awards scientific prizes for outstanding work in selected fields in the engineering sciences, medicine and the natural sciences. It rewards research with high potential for practical application and special significance attached to its aftermath. The Foundation has 21 partner universities in Europe, North America and Asia (among which EPFL, ETHZ, TUM, MIT, UCLA, Purdue). It currently reserves two annual awards of $5,000 to the Ph.D. IT programme of the Politecnico di Milano.
2024
Tommaso Alfonsi | Riccardo Giampiccolo
Research area: Telecommunications, Computer Science and Engineering
The 2024 Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Prize was awarded to Tommaso Alfonsi for the thesis ‘Methods and Tools for Data Integration and Knowledge Discovery in Viral Genomics’, and to Riccardo Giampiccolo for the thesis ‘Multiphysics Modeling of Audio Systems in the Wave Digital Domain’.
2023
Fabio Bonassi | Matteo Castiglioni
Research area: Systems and Control, Computer Science and Engineering
The 2023 Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Prize was awarded to Fabio Bonassi for the thesis ‘Reconciling Deep Learning and Control Theory: Recurrent Neural Networks for Model-Based Control Design’, and to Matteo Castiglioni for the thesis ‘Reducing the Gap Between Theory and Applications in Algorithmic Bayesian Persuasion’.
2021
Anna Bernasconi | Francesco Zanetto
Research area: Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics
Florian Daniel Ph.D. thesis award
In 2021 the Ph.D. IT programme established an annual award to honour the memory and legacy of our friend and colleague Florian Daniel, that prematurely passed away (1978 – 2020). The prize is worth €1,000 and is awarded to the best Ph.D. thesis in Information Technology.
2024
Luca Barbieri | Edoardo Ramalli
Research area: Telecommunications, Computer Science and Engineering
The 2024 ‘Florian Daniel’ Ph.D. thesis award was awarded to Luca Barbieri for the thesis 'Cooperative Processing and Learning Methods for High-Resolution Environmental Perception', and to Edoardo Ramalli for the thesis ‘Data Ecosystems and Data Science for Scientific Data’.
2023
Davide Di Vita
Research area: Electronics
The 2023 ‘Florian Daniel’ Ph.D. thesis award was awarded to Davide Di Vita for the thesis ‘SiPM-Based Readout of LaBr3 Scintillators: Development and Characterization of State-of-the-Art Spectroscopy Detectors’.
PoliMi Springer Briefs
The Ph.D. IT programme has established an annual award for the best 10-12 Ph.D. theses of the year in collaboration with Springer. Short contributions from the selected Ph.D. theses are published in a volume of the PoliMi Springer Briefs. Authors are entitled to one complimentary print copy of a Springer book of their choice.
2023
Research area: Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics, Systems and Control, Telecommunications
The fifth volume of Special Topics in Information Technology, edited by Prof. Francesco Amigoni from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, has been issued by Springer as part of the SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology book series and also as part of the PoliMI SpringerBriefs book sub series.
The open access book presents twelve outstanding doctoral dissertations in Information Technology discussed in 2022-23 at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano.
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2022
Research area: Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics, Systems and Control, Telecommunications
The fourth volume of Special Topics in Information Technology, edited by Prof. Carlo Riva from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, has been issued by Springer as part of the SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology book series and also as part of the PoliMI SpringerBriefs book sub series.
The open access book presents twelve outstanding doctoral dissertations in Information Technology discussed in 2021-22 at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano.
Download the book