NVIDIA Research has awarded Luisa Verdoliva the title of 2026 NVIDIA Research Faculty Fellow.
This recognition is granted to academic researchers who have carried out significant joint research activities in collaboration with NVIDIA Research teams. In this case, the title was awarded for research conducted together with the AI-Mediated Reality and Interaction Research Group at NVIDIA.
The research activity led, among other outcomes, to the publication of a paper presented at NeurIPS – Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, held in December 2025: https://neurips.cc/virtual/2025/loc/san-diego/poster/117010.
The technique developed as part of this collaboration has also been successfully integrated into NVIDIA technologies, highlighting the transfer of research results into industrial applications.
The IEEE Signal Processing Society Awards Board has awarded the 2025 IEEE SPS Best Paper Award to the paper: Davide Cozzolino and Luisa Verdoliva, “Noiseprint: A CNN-Based Camera Model Fingerprint”, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 15, 2020, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8713484.
The award is presented annually by the IEEE Signal Processing Society to a paper published in one of its journals that has made a significant scientific contribution in the field of signal processing.
The Best Paper Award is part of the recognitions granted by the IEEE Signal Processing Society to highlight research works presenting significant results and innovative methodologies across the various areas of signal processing, including data analysis, information security, and forensic applications.
The selection is carried out by the Society’s Awards Board and is based on the scientific impact of the work, its technical quality, and its relevance to the research community.
The complete list of awarded papers is available on the official IEEE Signal Processing Society website: https://signalprocessingsociety.org/community-involvement/award-recipients
Marco Mario Ciamarra, Luigi Pio Castaldo, and Pietro Conte, students in our Master's Degree Program in Computer Engineering, were the winners of the Enel Innothon 2025 competition, as part of the "NextGen Satellite Super-Resolution: Overcoming the Limits of Image Enhancement" challenge. The winning project was developed during the course ''Elaborazione di Segnali Multimediali'', which students attended during the March–June 2025 semester, demonstrating the strong integration between teaching activities and innovative applications in advanced industrial research. At the end of the selection phase, the finalist teams were invited to the Pitch Day, which took place on December 9, 2025, at Enel headquarters in Rome. On this occasion, the students presented their solution to an audience of experts and the jury, composed of the Directors of Enel Grids & Innovation, Global Services & ICT, and People & Organization. At the end of the presentations, the jury announced our student team as the winner. The award includes a financial prize of €5,000 and an internship at Enel.
The project ROMOTIVE - RObotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects Through Integrated Visuo-tactile Exploration, presented by our researcher Mario Selvaggio, has been selected for funding under the MUR FIS 3 - Italian Science Fund, for the Starting Grant category, in the Systems and Communication Engineering research area. Mario Selvaggio conducts his research at the PRISMA Lab, the robotics laboratory directed by Professor Bruno Siciliano.
ROMOTIVE will receive 1.1 million euros for a period of 48 months to establish a team of doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers engaged in the study of robotic manipulation. The project addresses a central scientific challenge: enabling robots to manipulate deformable objects with dexterity comparable to human dexterity through the active integration of visual and tactile perception. The long-term goal is to contribute to the development of home robotics by equipping robots with the autonomy and robustness needed to support elderly people in complex daily tasks, with significant impacts on quality of life.
The notice on the UniNa web site: https://www.unina.it/en/w/ricerca-sulla-manipolazione-robotica-romotive-ottiene-il-finanziamento-fis-3?redirect=%2Fit%2Ff2-magazine%2Fmagazine
Prof. Angela Sara Cacciapuoti, our professor and co-founder of the Quantum Internet Research Group, is the subject of a recent interview published on Sciencemediahub that explores in depth the emerging topic of the Quantum Internet.
In the interview, Professor Cacciapuoti explains what a "quantum network" means, the technological and scientific obstacles, and how European institutions can play a leadership role in this field.
The interview is available at the following link: https://sciencemediahub.eu/2025/09/17/a-scientists-opinion-interview-with-prof-angela-sara-cacciapuoti-on-the-quantum-internet/.
The article to which this interview refers is below: https://sciencemediahub.eu/2025/09/17/is-europe-ready-for-the-quantum-internet/
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