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.
2026
Francesco Bacchiocchi | Martina Doneda
Research area: Computer Science and Engineering, Systems & Control
Francesco Bacchiocchi and Martina Doneda have received the 2026 Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Prize. Bacchiocchi was recognised for his thesis, “Learning Algorithms for Generalized Principal-Agent Problems”, while Doneda received the award for “On Data & Decision-Making: Perspectives from Healthcare Applications Considering Representativeness and Analytical Scope”.
2025
Bernardo Camajori Tedeschini | Marco Mussi
Research area: Telecommunications, Computer Science and Engineering
Bernardo Camajori Tedeschini and Marco Mussi have been awarded the 2025 Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Prize. Camajori Tedeschini received the award for his thesis “Cooperative Machine Learning Methods in Distributed Systems”, and Mussi for his thesis “Online Learning Methods for Pricing and Advertising”.
2024
Tommaso Alfonsi | Riccardo Giampiccolo
Research area: Telecommunications, Computer Science and Engineering
2023
Fabio Bonassi | Matteo Castiglioni
Research area: Systems and Control, Computer Science and Engineering
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.
2026
Eugenio Lomurno | Emanuele Pucci
Research area: Computer Science and Engineering
Emanuele Pucci and Eugenio Lomurno have received the Prof. Florian Daniel PhD Thesis Award. Pucci was recognised for his thesis, “Conversational AI for Inclusive Web Browsing: The ConWeb Approach”, while Lomurno received the award for “Adversarial and Generative Deep Learning for Data Privacy in Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence”.
2025
Bernardo Camajori Tedeschi
Research area: Telecommunications
Bernardo Camajori Tedeschi received the “Prof. Florian Daniel” PhD thesis award for the year 2025 for his thesis “Cooperative Machine Learning Methods in Distributed Systems”.
2024
Luca Barbieri | Edoardo Ramalli
Research area: Telecommunications, Computer Science and Engineering
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.
2026
Research area: Research area: Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics, Systems and Control, Telecommunications
The 2026 volume of Special Topics in Information Technology, edited by Prof. Cinzia Cappiello, 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.
This book gathers the outcomes of the best theses defended in 2024–25 and selected for the IT Ph.D. award. Each of the authors provides a chapter summarizing his/her findings, including an introduction, description of methods, main achievements, and future work on the topic.
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2025
Research area: Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics, Systems and Control, Telecommunications
The 2025 volume of Special Topics in Information Technology, edited by Prof. Simone Garatti, 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.
This book gathers the outcomes of the best theses defended in 2023–24 and selected for the IT Ph.D. award. Each of the authors provides a chapter summarizing his/her findings, including an introduction, description of methods, main achievements, and future work on the topic.
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