The IEEE RAS Italian Chapter Young Author Best Paper Award was established in 2009. Since 2016 the award has been named after Fabrizio Flacco, member of the chapter and researcher of great scientific and human depth, who tragically and prematurely passed away in the 2016, a few days after winning the eighth edition of the award.

Recipients of the award from the the first to the last edition:

2009: Lucia Pallottino for this paper

2010: Antonio Franchi for this paper

2011: Michele Conconi and Marco Carricato for this paper

2012: Giovanni Berselli and Gianluca Palli for this paper

2013: Jolanda Coppola for this paper

2014: Andrea Zanchettin for this paper

2015: Fabio Ruggiero for this paper

2016: Fabrizio Flacco for this paper

2017: Federica Ferraguti for this paper

2018: Lorenzo Sabattini for this paper

2019: Cosimo Della Santina for this paper

2020: Marco Costanzo for this paper

2021: Edoardo Idà for this paper

2022: Davide Bazzi for this paper