2025 Award Winners

Best PhD Thesis

  • Awardee: Andrea Mastropietro, Sapienza Università di Roma
  • Title: Toward Explainable Biomedical Deep Learning - Training and Explaining Neural Networks in Bioinformatics and Medicinal Chemistry
  • Advisors: Aris Anagnostopoulos, Paolo Tieri

Best Master Thesis

  • Awardee: Gian Marco Orlando, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II"
  • Title: Agent-Based Modelling Meets Generative AI in Social Network Simulations
  • Advisors: Vincenzo Moscato, Valerio La Gatta

2024 Award Winners

Best PhD Thesis

  • Awardee: Francesca Naretto, Scuola Normale Superiore
  • Title: Explainable AI methods and their interplay with privacy protection
  • Advisors: Fosca Giannotti, Anna Monreale

Best Master Thesis

  • Awardee: Simone Baccile, Università di Pisa
  • Title: Braess Paradox: The Ecological Impact of Road Removal on CO2 Emissions
  • Advisors: Luca Pappalardo

2023 Award Winners

Best PhD Thesis

  • Awardee: Iacopo Colonnelli, Università degli Studi di Torino
  • Title: Workflow Models for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems
  • Advisors: Marco Aldinucci

Best Master Thesis

  • Awardee: Laura Menotti, Università degli Studi di Padova
  • Title: Reproducibility and Generalization of a Relation Extraction System for Gene-Disease Associations
  • Advisors: Gianmaria Silvello, Stefano Marchesin

2022 Award Winners

Best PhD Thesis

  • Awardee: Anna Bernasconi, Politecnico di Milano
  • Title: Model, Integrate, Search... Repeat: A Sound Approach to Building Integrated Repositories of Genomic Data
  • Advisors: Stefano Ceri, Alessandro Campi

Best Master Thesis

  • Awardee: Giovanni Mauro​, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
  • Title: A GAN-based approach for generating mobility networks
  • Advisors: Luca Pappalardo, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho