The PICUS group from DIETI wins the 'Liveness Detection in Action' challenge
Mela d'Oro Award from the Marisa Bellisario Foundation to the student Roberta Ferriero
The student Roberta Ferriero, graduated in Management Engineering with a thesis in Operations Research at OPSLab of DIETI, was the winner of the Mela d'Oro Award of the Marisa Bellisario Foundation.
Roberta Ferriero carried out the thesis on "Problems and optimization models in Healthcare Management: the case study of the Evangelico Betania Hospital", within the framework of the memorandum of understanding between DIETI and the Evangelica Betania Foundation, within the Project DIETI Department of Excellence "ICT for Health".
The Award, born in 1989 in memory of Marisa Bellisario, annually rewards women who have distinguished themselves in the profession, in management, in the economy and in the social sector at national and international level.
For the newly graduated category, the Award is reserved for the most brilliant recent graduates with 110 cum laude in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Management Engineering from over twenty universities. The selection by three large companies - Leonardo Company, Terna and Garofalo Healthcare - takes place on the basis of academic career and thesis work.
The 33rd edition of the Marisa Bellisario Prize will be held on July 1st at the Rai Studios in Rome and will be broadcast on Rai1 on July 17th, 2021. The participation of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella and personalities from institutions, economics, communication and sport is expected.
Award for the PRISMA Team at HFR 2020 Workshop in Innsbruck – October 2020
The paper "Reproducible Pruning System on Dynamic Natural Plants for Field Agricultural Robots" by Sunny Kumar Katyara, Fanny Ficuciello, Darwin Caldwell, Fei Chen, Bruno Siciliano, presented by Sunny Kumar Katyara at the 13th International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics in Innsbruck (October 2020) has received the Best Paper Award and a prize of 500 €, kindly offered by Franka Emika GmbH.
Further, the paper "Toward a Cognitive Control Framework for Explainable Robotics" by Riccardo Caccavale, Alberto Finzi, presented by Riccardo Caccavale has been a finalist for the Best Paper Award.
2021 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award (2)
With great pleasure we inform you that the paper "Approximate Multipliers Based on New Approximate Compressors" has been selected to receive the 2021 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award.
Congratulations to Darjn Esposito, Antonio Giuseppe Maria Strollo, Ettore Napoli, Davide De Caro and Nicola Petra.