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.
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.
Fabio Bonassi | Matteo Castiglioni
Research areas: Systems and Control, Computer Science and EngineeringThe 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’.
Fabio Garzetti | Marco Manzoni
Research areas: Electronics, TelecommunicationsThe 2022 Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Prize was awarded to Fabio Garzetti for the thesis “Ultras-High Performance Digital Electronic Architectures for Events Management in Real Time Environments” and to Marco Manzoni for the thesis “Fast and Robust Estimation of Atmospheric Phase Screens Using C-Band Spaceborne SAR and GNSS Calibration”.
Anna Bernasconi | Francesco Zanetto
Research areas: Computer Science and Engineering, ElectronicsThe 2021 Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Prize was awarded to Anna Bernasconi for the thesis “Model, Integrate, Search…Repeat: A Sound Approach to Building Integrated Repositories of Genomic Data” and to Francesco Zanetto for the thesis “Low-Noise Mixed-Signal Electronics for Closed-Loop Control of Complex Photonic Circuits”.
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.
Davide Di Vita
Research areas: ElectronicsThe 2021 ‘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’.
Micol Spitale | Emanuele Vitali
Research areas: Computer Science and EngineeringThe 2022 “Florian Daniel” Ph.D. thesis award was awarded ex aequo to Micol Spitale for the thesis “Conversational Agents for Children with Language Impairments: Design and Technology” and to Emanuele Vitali for the thesis “A Holistic Approach Towards Future Self-Tuning Applications in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Architectures”.
Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema
Research areas: Computer Science and EngineeringThe 2021 “Florian Daniel” Ph.D. thesis award was awarded to Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema for the thesis “An Assessment of Reproducibility and Methodological Issues in Neural Recommender Systems Research”.
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.
Special Topics in Information Technology
Research areas: Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics, Systems and Control, TelecommunicationsThe 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: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-15374-7
Special Topics in Information Technology
Research areas: Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics, Systems and Control, TelecommunicationsThe third volume of Special Topics in Information Technology, edited by Prof. Luigi Piroddi, 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 2020-21 at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bionengineering of the Politecnico di Milano.
Download the book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-85918-3
Research Awards
Matteo Luigi De Pascali
Research areas: Systems and ControlMatteo Luigi De Pascali, a student in the Ph.D. program in Information Technology of the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering at the Politecnico di Milano, won the 2023 CCTA Outstanding Student Paper Award for the paper ‘A Control-Oriented 1-D Model of a Planar Solid-Oxide Fuel Cell for Oxy-Combustion Cycles.’ The paper was presented during the 7th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), held in Bridgetown, Barbados, from August 16 to 18, 2023.
Paolo Fiore
Research areas: TelecommunicationsThe paper ‘Shaping Next-Generation RAN Topologies to Meet Future Traffic Demands: A Peak Throughput Study’, written by Paolo Fiore, Ph.D. student in Information Technology at the ANTLab, and Prof. Ilario Filippini from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano, together with Danilo De Donno from the Huawei Milan Research Center, received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, which was held in Toronto, Canada, from September 5 to 8, 2023.
Niccolò Lucci | Elias Montini | Isacco Zappa
Research areas: Systems and ControlThe JARVIS Team from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano won the 2023 KUKA Innovation Award. The team was coordinated by Prof. Andrea Zanchettin from MeRLIn Lab and was made up of Niccolò Lucci, Elias Montini, and Isacco Zappa, all three of them currently enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Information Technology. The prize was awarded during the 2023 edition of automatica, the leading exhibition for smart automation and robotics that took place from June 27 to 30 in Munich, Germany.
Roberto Rocco
Research areas: Computer Science and EngineeringRoberto Rocco, Ph.D. student in Information Technology at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano, was awarded the Best Poster Award at the 20th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, that took place on May 9-11, 2023 in Bologna, Italy.
Livia Lestingi
Ph.D. candidate Livia Lestingi was awarded the Best Presentation Award for her talk at the Doctoral Symposium held in conjunction with the 24th International Symposium on Formal Methods (FM 2021). The talk, titled “Model-Driven Development of Formally Verified Human-Robot Interactions”, offers a presentation of the research activity that Livia carries out in the field of the application of formal methods to interactive robotic mission design in healthcare settings.
Francesco Zanetto
Ph.D. candidate Francesco Zanetto was awarded the Best Doctoral Thesis Award by SIE (Società Italiana di Elettronica) for the thesis “Low-Noise Mixed-Signal Electronics for Closed-Loop Control of Complex Photonic Circuits”.
Nicola Corna, Fabio Garzetti
Ph.D. candidates Nicola Corna and Fabio Garzetti received a Trainee Grant from the 2021 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference.
Francesca Ratti, Gabriele Scalia, Davide Scazzoli, Fardad Vakilipoor
Ph.D. candidates Francesca Ratti, Gabriele Scalia, Davide Scazzoli, and Fardad Vakilipoor won the 1st prize in the ACM NanoCom 2021 Dataset Competition.
Lorenzo Scaletti, Angelo Parisi
Ph.D. candidates Lorenzo Scaletti and Angelo Parisi were awarded the Bronze Leaf Award for the paper “Skew and Jitter Performance in CMOS Clock Phase Splitter Circuits”, written with Prof. Luca Bertulessi and presented at the PRIME 2021 Conference on Ph.D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics.
Fabio Bonassi
Ph.D. candidate Fabio Bonassi – who carries out his research activity at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano under the supervision of Prof. Lorenzo Fagiano and by Prof. Riccardo Scattolini – received the IFAC Young Author Award for the paper “Stability of Discrete-Time Feed- Forward Neural Networks in NARX Configuration”, at the SYSID 2021 conference, held in Padua from July 13th to 16th, 2021.
