The IEEE ITS Italy Section Best Dissertation Award is given annually for the best dissertation in any ITS area that is innovative and relevant to practice. This award is established to encourage doctoral research that combines theory and practice, makes in-depth technical contributions, or is interdisciplinary in nature, having the potential to contribute to the ITS area and broaden the ITS topics from either the methodological or application perspectives.
Past Awardees
| YEAR | Awardee | ||||||
| 2024 | First Prize: Waheed Imran, University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy Title: Macroscopic Modelling and Control of Mixed Traffic Finalist: Alessio Tesone Title: Finalist: Danilo Saccani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Title: Model Predictive Control for constrained navigation of autonomous vehicles | ||||||
| 2023 | First Prize: Jessica Leoni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Title: A machine learning-based framework for automatic and interpretable health and usage monitoring of safety-critical air and ground vehicles Finalist: Giovanni Perin, University of Padova, Italy Title: Optimizing edge computing resources towards greener networks and services Finalist: Fulvio Silvestri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Title: Behavioral Models for Impact Assessment of Autonomous Driving on Travel Demand | ||||||
| 2022 | First Prize: Angelo Coppola, University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy Title: C-ITS services and advanced vehicle control for complex traffic scenarios Finalist: Fabio Orsini, University of Padova, Italy Title: A conflict-based approach for road safety analysis Finalist: Maria Rella Riccardi, University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy Title: Econometric methods and machine learning algorithms to investigate factors contributing to pedestrian crash severity | ||||||
| 2021 | First Prize: Alessio Fascista, University of Salento, Italy Title: Cooperative Positioning based on Array Processing and Information Fusion Finalist: Emilia Loria, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) – University of Trento, Italy Title: Alone with Company: Studying Individual and Social Players’ In-game Behaviors in Adaptive Gamification Finalist: Giulia Piacentini, University of Pavia Title: Macroscopic Traffic Control via Connected and Automated Vehicles in Freeway Systems Finalist Prize: Title: |