IEEE CSS Italy Chapter Best Young Author Journal Paper Award
The IEEE Control Systems Society Italy Chapter recognizes distinguished papers by young researchers in the field of control systems through presentation of an Award for the Best Young Author Journal Paper for papers published in the two past calendar years preceding the announcement of the award on the following Society Journals: Control Systems Magazine; Transactions on Automatic Control; Transactions on Control Systems Technology; Transactions on Control of Network Systems; Control Systems Letters.
The Award consists in a Certificate and one prize of 500.00 Euro (gross amount before taxes) to the author of the Best Paper who has the requisites indicated below.
Only authors with the following requisites are eligible for the award:
- The author must be a Member of IEEE-CSS Italian Chapter (i.e. a IEEE CSS member with affiliation in Italy).
- The author must be 35 years old or younger on January 1st of the calendar year before the award.
- The author must be one of the authors of the paper.
- An author cannot be award candidate for more than one paper.
2023 award winner: Marco Coraggio
![coraggio](https://r8.ieee.org/italy-css/wp-content/uploads/sites/171/coraggio.png)
for the paper
“Minimax flow over acyclic networks: distributed algorithms and microgrid application”
by M. Coraggio, S. Jafarpour, F. Bullo, M. di Bernardo,
IIEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 10, no. 2, June 2023
with the following motivation:
“For the excellent methodological contribution in the field of MInMax flow problems and with application implications for network systems.”
2023 finalist: Giacomo Baggio
for the paper:
“Non-normality Improves Information Transmission Performance of Network Systems” by G. Baggio and S. Zampieri, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 8, no. 4, Dec. 2021
2023 finalist: Michelangelo Bin
for the paper:
“About Robustness of Control Systems Embedding an Internal Model” by M. Bin, D. Astolfi and G. Marconi, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 68, no. 3, Mar. 2023
2022 award winner: Paolo Scarabaggio
![Scarabaggio](https://r8.ieee.org/italy-css/wp-content/uploads/sites/171/Scarabaggio.png)
for the paper
“Distributed Demand Side Management With Stochastic Wind Power Forecasting”
by P. Scarabaggio, S. Grammatico, R. Carli, M. Dotoli,
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 30, no. 1, Jan. 2022
with the following motivation:
“The paper develops an original approach to the distributed demand side management in smart grids, in which sample average approximation techniques allow to take into account uncertainty in wind power forecasting”
2022 finalist: Marco Coraggio
for the paper:
“Distributed Discontinuous Coupling for Convergence in Heterogeneous Networks” by M. Coraggio, P. De Lellis, M. di Bernardo, IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 5, no. 3, July 2021
2022 finalist: Michele Cucuzzella
for the paper:
“Differentiation and Passivity for Control of Brayton–Moser Systems” by K. C. Kosaraju, M. Cucuzzella, J.M.A. Scherpen, R. Pasumarthy, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 66, no. 3, March 2021
2021 award winner: Michelangelo Bin
![Bin](https://r8.ieee.org/italy-css/wp-content/uploads/sites/171/Bin.jpg)
for the paper:
“Constraint-Coupled Distributed Optimization: a Relaxation and Duality Approach” by Ivano Notarnicola, Giuseppe Notarstefano, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 7, no. 1, 2020
with the following motivation:
“The paper proposes a novel iterative scheme for the solution of mixed-integer cooperative optimization problems, which extends the existing approaches to a distributed set-up with a time-varying communication network, so encompassing more realistic scenarios in optimal resource sharing problems.”
2021 finalist: Giacomo Baggio
for the paper:
“Stability Conditions for Cluster Synchronization in Networks of Heterogeneous Kuramoto Oscillators” by T. Menara, G. Baggio, D. S. Bassett F. Pasqualetti, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 7, no. 1, March 2020
2021 finalist: Andrea Testa
for the paper:
“Distributed Mixed-Integer Linear Programming via Cut Generation and Constraint Exchange” by A. Testa, A. Rucco and G. Notarstefano, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 65, no. 4, April 2020
2020 award winner: Ivano Notarnicola
for the paper:
“Approximate Nonlinear Regulation via Identification-Based Adaptive Internal Models” by M. Bin, P. Bernard and L. Marconi, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 66, no. 8, pp. 3534-3549, Aug. 2021
with the following motivation:
“The paper proposes a novel approach to adaptive output regulation for multivariable nonlinear systems, where the online adaptation of the internal model is solved as a system identification problem, thereby obtaining an original robust control solution.”
2019 award winner: Alessandro Falsone
for the paper:
“A distributed iterative algorithm for multi-agent MILPs: finite-time feasibility and performance characterizations” by A.Falsone, K. Margellos, M. Prandini, IEEE Control Systems Letters, Vol. 2, no. 4, 2018
with the following motivation:
“The paper proposes an elegant solution to large-scale constraint-coupled distributed optimization problems over networks of peer-to-peer agents, exploiting an innovative use of Lagrange duality.”