Awards & International Recognition
14/05/2011 Recognition conferred upon Prof. Tiziana Calamoneri |
| Prof. Tiziana Calamoneri has been elected president of the Italian Chapter of EATCS (European Association for Theoretical Computer Science), an international organization founded in 1972. The aim of EATCS is to facilitate the exchange of ideas and results among theoretical computer scientists as well as to stimulate cooperation between the theoretical and the practical community in computer science. More info about EATCS at http://www.eatcs.org/ |
17/01/2011 To infinity... and beyond: research grant awarded to Prof. Nicola Galesi |
| The John Templeton Foundation (www.templeton.org) granted with approx 90.000 euro, prof. Nicola Galesi's two-years research project: 'The Limits of Theorem Proving' in the context of its highly competitive research grant scheme 'Foundational Questions in the Mathematical Sciences' |
27/11/2010 2010 Sapienza Research Prize awarded to Dr. Novella Bartolini |
| Dr. Novella Bartolini has received the 2010 Sapienza Research Prize for her paper entitled “Algorithms and Protocols for the Coordination and Deployment of Networks of Mobile Sensors in Critical Settings”. The study was recognised as one of 24 pieces of “research of excellence” carried out by researchers and professors of the University during the 5 year period 2005-2010. |
25/11/2010 IBM Graduation Prize awarded to Dr. Ariona Shashaj |
| Dr. Ariona Shashaj, a student on the Informatics Degree course, has been awarded one of the three Graduation Prizes financed by IBM Spa, for her thesis entitled “Problems in UWSN Networks and their Possible Solutions: the Positioning of Sensors in 3D”. |
25/10/2010 Google Europe Fellowship in Wireless Networking awarded to Dora Spenza |
| Dora Spenza, a Phd research student in Informatics, has won a prestigious Google Doctorate Fellowship. This Google study grant programme was set up to support students of exceptional quality in undertaking computer science research at the highest international level. Dora Spenza will concentrate on developing solutions for networks of sensors with low environmental impact. |
24/10/2010 Award to Professor Chiara Petrioli |
| Since January 2010 Prof. Chiara Petrioli has represented the IEEE Communications Society on the steering committee of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, one of the most prestigious international journals in the field of telecommunication networks. Prof. Petrioli is also a member of the Editorial Board of the journal. |
18/10/2010 Meeting with President Napolitano |
On the occasion of the Conference held to commemorate Antonio Ruberti a decade after his passing, some members of the Sapienza University’s newly created “Faculty of Information Engineering, Informatics and Statistics” had the honour of meeting Giorgio Napolitano, President of the Italian Republic. In the photo, Prof. Alessandro Panconesi and Roberto Navigli are pictured shaking hands with President Napolitano.
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08/09/2010 ERC Starting Grant awarded to Prof. Roberto Navigli |
| The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a grant of 1.3 million euros to Roberto Navigli, an Associate Professor and researcher in the “Dipartimento di Informatica”. The selected research project, entitled “Multilingual Joint Word Sense Disambiguation (MultiJEDI), will tackle two fundamental problems of the computer processing of natural language: first, the automatic acquisition over a wide scale of a multilingual semantic network, and second, the automatic resolution of word sense ambiguities, at a high level of performance, in any natural language of interest. Thanks to relevant experience in the field acquired both through international collaborations and through his research at the Sapienza, Prof Navigli has become the first Italian researcher in informatics to receive such recognition, one of the most important awarded by the European Union. |
08/09/2010 EACTS Prize awarded to Dr. Blerina Sinaimeri |
| With her thesis entitled 'Structures of Diversity', Dr. Blerina Sinaimeri has won the annual prize of the Italian Chapter of EATCS, awarded to the best Phd thesis in Informatics Theory. Blerina carried out her research in the “Dipartimento di Informatica”, obtaining results in the field of information theory and extremal combinatorics. |
07/09/2010 Marie Curie Fellowship awarded to Prof. Alessandro Mei |
| The European Union has recognised the work of Prof. Alessandro Mei, awarding him a Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowship. The research project will receive funding of 210,000 euros and will involve a collaboration between the Sapienza “Dipartimento di Informatica” and the University of California in San Diego. The objective is to construct the fundamental security protocols for future networks of personal devices, such as smart-phones and PDAs. In order to carry out the project, Prof. Mei will be the guest of the University of California San Diego during the academic year 2010-11. |
23/07/2010 Google Research Award al prof. Alessandro Panconesi |
| Prof. Alessandro Panconesi has received a Google Research Award for a research project on social networks. |
23/07/2010 Google Grant for the Computer Science Olympiads |
| As part of the Google programme 'Computer Science 4 High School', the Sapienza “Dipartimento di Informatica”, which is responsible for overseeing the “Computer Science Olympiads for High School students” in Italy’s Lazio Region, has received a grant from Google for the project 'Challenge and Fun with the CS Olympiads'. |
16/06/2010 Silvio Lattanzi invited to China Theory Week |
| Silvio Lattanzi, a research student in the “Dipartimento di Informatica”, has been invited to present his latest research results at the “China Theory Week”, a workshop organized by the “Institute for Theoretical Computer Science” at the Tsinghua University of Beijing. |
10/06/2010 2009 Prize for the Best Paper written by a Phd student | |
The 2009 Prize for the Best Paper written by a Phd student has this year been awarded jointly to Silvio Lattanzi and Simone Silvestri. Silvio Lattanzi was co-author of the paper 'Models for the Compressible Web' presented at the IEEE International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science, and the paper received the prize in recognition of its depth, the particular interest of its results, the originality of the work, and the high standing of the journal in which it was published. Simone Silvestri (second from right in the photo below, together with three members of the judging panel) was co-author of the paper 'Autonomous Deployment of Heterogeneous Mobile Sensors' presented at the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, and the paper received the prize in recognition of the elegance of its result and the high standing of the journal in which it was published (where the authors also won the Best Paper Award). Each winner received a prize of 1,000 euros.
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31/05/2010 Prestigious recognition conferred upon Prof. Janos Korner |
| Prof. Janos Korner has been elected member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in recognition of his contributions to Information Theory and Discrete Mathematics. |
20/05/2010 IBM Prize awarded to Prof. Alessandro Panconesi |
| Prof. Alessandro Panconesi has received an IBM Faculty Award, a money prize awarded by IBM Corporation: IBM Faculty Awards are intended to recognize outstanding achievement and encourage exploratory projects of interest to IBM. |
20/10/2009 IEEE Best Paper Award received by members of the Dipartimento di Informatica |
| The paper ''Autonomous Deployment of Heterogeneous Mobile Sensors'', coauthored by Novella Bartolini, Tiziana Calamoneri, Tom La Porta, Annalisa Massini and Simone Silvestri, has received the Best Paper Award at ICNP 2009 - the seventeenth IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols. |
21/05/2009 2008 Prize for the Best Paper written by a Phd student |
| The 2008 Prize for the Best Paper written by a Phd student has this year been awarded jointly to Flavio Chierichetti, Julinda Stefa and Blerina Sinaimeri. The three papers develop significant results concerning, respectively, distributed algorithms, network protocols and combinatorial analysis. The first two papers were presented at Icalp and Infocom, two important international conferences, while the third was published in the Journal of Combinatorial Theory, one of the most prestgious journals in the field of discrete mathematics. Julinda Stefa’s paper has also already been published in a journal , that of the prestigious IEEE Transaction on Computers. Each winner received a prize of 1,000 euros. |
05/05/2008 ERC Starting Grant awarded to Dr. Stefan Dziembowski |
| The European Union has rewarded the competences of Dr. Stefan Dziembowski, funding his research in the “Dipartimento di Informatica” for the next five years. The 5-year Starting Grant awarded by the European Research Council (ERC) will enable him to proceed with the studies and scientific research programme he already has underway. The award represents a recognition not only of the work of Dziembowski individually, but also that of the “Dipartimento di Informatica” in general, which has shown itself capable of attracting a young researcher of great potential from abroad, thereby providing further confirmation of excellence in the Faculty of Sciences at the Sapienza University. |
