Categorie: Award

Brand new award MoDIS unit

The paper “Conceptualising How to Design for AI Literacy through Game Artifacts” received an Honourable Mention Paper Award at the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’26).  The work is the result of a collaboration between researchers Annapaola Marconi and Simone Bassanelli from the MoDIS unit (Digital Society Center) at FBK, in collaboration with Joseph Tu, Lennart E. Nacke and Geneva […]

Brand new award IDA unit

The Intelligent Digital Agents (IDA) unit within the Center of Digital Health & Wellbeing, with researchers Patrizio Bellan, Leonardo Sanna, and Mauro Dragoni, achieved first place in Task 1: Early Symptom Detection in Therapeutic Conversations at MentalRiskES 2026. The competition focuses on the analysis of therapeutic dialogues between patients and mental health professionals, with the […]

Brand new award HyRes unit

Sandro Zorzi, researcher in the HyRes unit of the Sustainable Energy Center, is among the winners of the 2026 Canada–Italy Innovation Award with the project “HyWeCAN – (Hydrogen Water Electrolysis through Canadian-itAlian Nexus), developed in partnership with the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. The award, presented by the Embassy of Canada in Italy, recognizes four […]

Brand new award CHuB unit

Elisa Muratore from the CHuB unit received the “A Thesis for National Security” award, promoted by the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers through the Department of Security Information (DIS), for her research titled “Marked Temporal Point Processes for Simulating and Capturing Coordinated Behaviour Campaigns”, focused on countering coordinated disinformation on social media. See […]

Brand new award DH research group

We are pleased to share that Katarina Laken (DH Research group, Digital Society Center) received the Best Paper Award at the Information Disorder Workshop, co-located with the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2026). The paper “Combating Disinformation: Is There No Alternative?” is co-authored by PhD students from the HYBRIDS Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Network. See all FBK awards

Brand new award Centers Digital Health & Wellbeing + Sustainable Energy

The industrial innovation project “MASAI” was selected among the five winners of the “PNRR Final Match – Startup Contest”, an initiative organized by Borsa della Ricerca and dedicated to startups, spin-offs, and innovation projects developed within the framework of PNRR programs. The project’s Principal Investigator is Patrizio Bellan, member of the IDA unit of the Digital Health & Wellbeing […]

Brand new award i3 Unit

The paper “Framing Water: Exploring Tensions between Social Norms and Environmental Sustainability through a Data Physicalization Game,” authored by Eleonora Mencarini, Ann L. Kruger, Chiara Leonardi, and Paolo Massa of the i3 unit (Center for Augmented Intelligence), has received the Special Recognition for Research with Potential for Sustainable Impact at CHI 2026. See all FBK awards

Brand new award MT Unit – Digital Industry Center

Beatrice Savoldi (MT Unit) has been awarded the Best Paper Award at the TeachNLP 2026 workshop (within the EACL 2026 conference) for the paper “Practising Responsibility: Ethics in NLP as a Hands-On Course.” See all FBK awards

Brand new award Cluster Lab – Center for Sustainable Energy

Gloria Gottardi, Head of the ClusterLab, has been honored with the Best WP Leader Award for her role as Coordinator of Work Package 9.4, “Materials Characterization and Testing,” within the NEST – Network 4 Energy Sustainable Transition project. She also serves as scientific lead for FBK’s activities within both WP 9.4 and WP 9.2, “Efficient […]

Brand new award NLP Unit – Center for Augmented Intelligence

Pietro Ferrazzi, PhD student in the NLP research group, has been selected as one of the 12 finalists in the Research section of Trentino Digital Bridge 2025, an initiative promoted by Confindustria Trentino in collaboration with HIT, with the aim of fostering links between the worlds of research and industry. During the event, he presented […]

Brand new award DAISY Unit – Center for Cybersecurity

Michael Kevin Ntako Koungni and Roberto Doriguzzi Corin (DAISY Unit), in collaboration with and Domenico Siracusa (University of Trento), have been recognised with the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Artificial Intelligence Models and Systems Symposium (IEEE AIMS 2025) with the paper “CPAD: Constraint-Projected Adversarial Attack for Dependable Network Intrusion Detection”.The paper presents CPAD (Constraint-Projected Adversarial Attack), a framework that allows cybersecurity analysts […]

Brand new award MST unit – Centre for Sensors & Devices

Girolamo Tagliapietra and Jacopo Iannacci (MST Unit) have been awarded the BEST PAPER AWARD at the 34th IEEE International Conference on Microelectronics (IEEE MIEL 2025) for the paper: “Multi-Functional RF-MEMS Beamformers for Future Antenna Arrays” See all FBK awards

Brand new award MobS unit – Augmented Intelligence Center

The research work led by Giovanni De Toni from the MobS unit, entitled ‘You Don’t Bring Me Flowers: Mitigating Unwanted Recommendations Through Conformal Risk Control’, has been awarded the ‘Best Full Paper Award’ at the ACM RecSys 2025 conference in Prague. The paper introduces the first method that can demonstrably limit unwanted recommendations through simple binary user feedback, leveraging the conformal risk control […]

Brand new award HyRes unit – Sustainable Energy Center

Giuseppe Sassone’s thesis entitled ‘Degradation Mechanisms of the Lanthanum Strontium Cobalt Ferrite Used as Oxygen Electrode in Solid Oxide Cells’  won the second place in the ‘PhD theses’ category of the H2Excellence best thesis award.The award, established by the H2Excellence project, aims to select the best master’s and doctoral theses in the field of fuel cells […]

Brand new award 3DOM unit – Digital Industry Center

“Best Paper Award” for the paper “NL-2-SPARQL: Ontology-Based Natural Language Querying over 3D Point Cloud Knowledge Graphs” by Matteo Codiglione e Fabio Remondino at 4th Digital Heritage Congress 2025. “Best Paper Award” for the paper “A Roman Carved Tale Modelled in 3D and Interpreted with AI” by Gabriele Mazzacca, Andrea Sterpin, Simone Rigon, Marco Medici, Fabio Remondino at CIPA 2025 (Heritage Conservation from Bits). “Best Presentation Award” for the paper “Automated Detection […]

Brand new award DVL unit – Augmented Intelligence Center

Lorenzo Vaquero Otal  has received the Extraordinary Doctorate Award from the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela for his PhD thesis: “Visual Multi-Object Tracking through Deep Learning”! He is now continuing his journey at DVL Unit, Augmented Intelligence Center – FBK! See all FBK awards

Brand new award IRVAPP

 Olga Gorodetskaya has received an Honourable Mention in the context of the SIS 2025  Prize for the best PhD dissertation in Demography “Valeria Solesin”. The award ceremony took place during the Conference on Statistics for Innovation (https://sis2025.sis-statistica.it/), held in Genoa on June 17, 2025. The awarded thesis, entitled “Gender Inequality in Italian Academia: A Life-Course Perspective on Careers and Fertility”, was recognised with […]

Brand new award MT unit – Digital Industry Center

Sara Papi has been awarded the best PhD 2024 in Engineering and Information Science at the University of Trento. Her PhD thesis, entitled ‘Direct Speech Translation in Constrained Contexts: the Simultaneous and Subtitling Scenarios’, stands out for having tackled two of the most complex challenges in the field: simultaneous speech translation and automatic subtitling generation. See all FBK awards

Brand new Award SE Unit – Digital Industry Center

Annibale Panichella, Fitsum Kifetew and Paolo Tonella won the IEEE Computer Society TCSE 10 Year Most Influential Paper (MIP) Award, presented to them at the 18th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) 2025 for the paper “Reformulating branch coverage as a many-objective optimization problem“, published in the conference proceedings of ICST 2015. In addition, the team […]

Brand new award Cybersecurity Center

Riccardo Longo, Majid Mollaeefar, Umberto Morelli, Chiara Spadafora, Alessandro Tomasi and Silvio Ranise won the Best Paper Award at the CRiSIS 2024 conference with the paper: ‘Modeling and Assessing Coercion Threats in Electronic Voting’. See all FBK awards

Brand new award LanD unit – Augmented Intelligence Center

Daniel Russo won the Best Student Paper Award at the CLiCit2024 conference with his paper: ‘To Click It or Not to Click It: An Italian Dataset for Neutralising Clickbait Headlines‘ Authors: Daniel Russo (FBK), Marco Guerini (FBK), Oscar Araque (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) See all FBK awards

Brand new award MT unit – Digital Industry Center

Sara Papi received a special mention for the ‘Marco Cadoli’ prize awarded to the best doctoral thesis during AIxIA 2024 for her work entitled: “Direct Speech Translation in Constrained Contexts: the Simultaneous and Subtitling Scenarios” https://mt.fbk.eu/our-postdoc-sara-papi-received-the-best-phd-thesis-special-mention-by-aixia-2024/ See all FBK awards

Brand new award SpeechTeK unit – Augmented Intelligence Center

Alessio Brutti has been recognized for an outstanding contribution as speaker for the talk ‘Adaptive and dynamic neutral models for speech processing’, given at the inaugural event of the PhD programme in Electronic Engineering Sciences at the University of Santiago, Chile. See all FBK awards

Brand new award MT unit – Digital Industry Center

At the conference EMNLP 2024 two prestigious Best Social Impact Paper Awards were presented: Twists, Humps, and Pebbles: Multilingual Speech Recognition Models Exhibit Gender Performance Gaps Authors: Giuseppe Attanasio (Instituto de Telecomunicações), Beatrice Savoldi (FBK), Dennis Fucci (FBK), Dirk Hovy (Bocconi) What the Harm? Quantifying the Tangible Impact of Gender Bias in Machine Translation with […]

Brand new award MobS unit – Augmented Intelligence Center

The paper “Once Upon a Crime: Towards Crime Prediction from Demographics and Mobile Data.” was awarded the “10-Year Technical Impact Award” during the conference ICMI (International Conference on Multimodal Interaction) in San Jose, Costa Rica. This award recognizes the important impact the article has had in the scientific community ten years after its publication. Co-authors […]

Brand new award DVL unit – Augmented Intelligence Center

Yiming Wang has been recognized as one of the 25 “New Generation Stars”, an initiative by NOKOV Motion Capture and IROS 2024, designed to amplify the voices and visibility of emerging young researchers. criticism. See all FBK awards

Brand new award PDI unit – Augmented Intelligence Center

Massimiliano Ronzani is one of the two members of the Programme Committee (PC) of the ICPM 2024 conference – the leading international event dedicated to Process Mining – who was awarded the ‘Best Reviewer Award’. The conference chairs emphasised that the award was given on the basis of the quality of the reviews, constructive contributions during the discussion phase […]

Brand new award IRIS unit – Sensors & Devices Center

Thomas Corradino and Jacopo Quercia won 1st and 3rd prizes, respectively, in the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in memory of Emilio Gatti and Franco Manfredi – 8th edition, for doctoral theses in the following field: “Radiation Instrumentation for Fundamental and Applied Research” with the following theses: “Development of monolithic active pixel sensors for radiation imaging”  […]

Brand new award Center for Sensors & Devices

The team EPIQUS H2020 Trento, comprised of members from FBK and the University of Trento – Matteo Sanna, Alessio Baldazzi, Nicolò Broseghini, Gioele Piccoli (FBK), Martino Bernard (FBK), Fabio Acerbi (FBK), Georg Pucker (FBK), Stefano Azzini, Mher Ghulinyan (FBK) and Lorenzo Pavesi – was awarded the Best Paper Award last month at the IEEE Quantum […]

Brand new award MobS unit – Center for Augmented Intelligence

The paper “Assessing Urban and Rural Routing Inefficiencies with Aggregated Mobility Patterns” by Nandini Iyer (Northeastern London), Massimiliano Luca (FBK) and Riccardo Di Clemente (Northeastern London) was selected as Best data challenge paper at NetMob 2024. NetMob is the leading conference on the analysis of mobile phone datasets for social, urban, societal and industrial problems. […]

Brand new award IRVAPP

Luigina Jessica Montano won the prize for the best doctoral dissertation on evaluation with the work entitled “Evaluating the impact of complex tourism interventions in EU-funded project contexts.” This prize was awarded as part of the call for papers organized by the Italian Association of Evaluation on the occasion of the 2024 National Congress. See […]

Brand new award TeV unit – Digital Industry Center

Andrea Caraffa, Davide Boscaini, Amir Hamza and Fabio Poiesi received two awards at the 9th Workshop on Recovering 6D Object Pose during the Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) The two prizes were awarded for winning two competitions with the best method (FreeZe v2), in the following categories: Model-based 6D localization of unseen objects on BOP-Classic-Core […]

Brand new award OpenIoT unit – Digital Industry Center

Farhad Shamsfakhr was awarded the prestigious “Carlo Offelli” 2024 Doctoral Award by the Italian Association of Electrical and Electronic Measurements Group (GMEE) conferred during the 8th National Measurement Forum held Sept. 12-14, 2024. The title of the thesis, “Optimal Indoor Positioning, Trajectory Reconstruction and Localisation with Uncertainty Control usingRadio-Frequency Measurements.” See all FBK awards

Brand new award DKM unit – Augmented Intelligence Center

Alessandro Daniele, Tommaso Campari, Sagar Malhotra, Luciano Serafini received the Best Paper Award at NESY 2024 for the paper entitled. “Simple and Effective Transfer Learning for Neuro-Symbolic Integration.” See all FBK awards

SWITCH European Project

The European project SWITCH (Smart Ways for In-Situ Totally Integrated and Continuous Multisource Generation of Hydrogen), coordinated by Fondazione Bruno Kessler, has been awarded by the International Energy Agency, the supranational intergovernmental organization leading the global energy dialogue, with the Hydrogen TCP Award of Excellence 2024, the prestigious award that recognizes excellence in the collaboration, […]

Brand new award MT unit – Digital Industry Center

The MT group received both the Outstanding Paper and Senior Area Chair Award at ACL 2024 for the paper, “Speech Translation with Speech Foundation Models and Large Language Models: What is There and What is Missing?”   Authors: Marco Gaido, Sara Papi, Matteo Negri, Luisa Bentivogli See all FBK awards

Brand new award 3DOM Unit – Digital Industry Center

Narges Takhtkeshha, PhD student received the first prize in the IEEE YP GeoPitch AWARD: Innovating for a Sustainable Future with Geoscience and Remote Sensing at the 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium.

Brand new award RSDE Unit – Digital Society Center

Luca Bergamasco, RSDE Unit, (Digital Society) ha ottenuto il Frank Marzano Thesis Award 2023 per la tesi di dottorato discussa a giugno 2022 intitolata: “Advanced deep-learning methods for automatic change detection and classification of multitemporal remote-sensing images”.  

Brand new Award FM unit – Digital Industry Center

Alberto Griggio, Alessandro Cimatti and Stefano Tonetta, FM Unit, (Digital Industry) were awarded the “Distinguished artifact award” at the TACAS 2024 conferencefor the paper titled: “Towards Safe Autonomous Driving: Model Checking a Behavior Planner during Development,“ scrited in collaboration with researchers from Bosch and Cariad.

Brand new Award MT Unit – Digital Industry Center

Marco Gaido dell’unità MT, Digital Industry Center ha vinto il prestigioso Anthony C Clarke Award 2023 per la migliore tesi di dottorato europea nel campo della traduzione automatica, assegnata dalla EAMT. Il titolo della sua tesi è ‘Direct Speech Translation Toward High-Quality, Inclusive, and Augmented Systems’. Congratulazioni!  

Brand new award MoDiS unit – Digital Society Center

Dear colleagues, we are pleased to inform you of an important recognition obtained by the MoDiS unit , Digital Society Center. Federico Bonetti, Simone Bassanelli, Antonio Bucchiarone, Federica Gini and Annapaola Marconi received the Best Poster and Best Presentation Award at GamiFYING 24 for the paper titled: “Untitled Bee Game: be(e)ing means to learn more […]

Brand new award RiSING unit – Cyber Security Center

Marco Zambianco, Silvio Cretti and Domenico Siracusa  were awarded the Best Paper Award for the paper entitled: Cost Minimization in Multi-cloud Systems with Runtime Microservice Re-orchestration” at ICIN 2024 conference.   

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