Chorafas Foundation Prize

Some awards are traditionally offered to the best PhD students. Among them the Chorafas foundation award.

The Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation was established in March 1992 by Professor Dimitris N. Chorafas, an international scholar and author of more than 100 publications on economics, business, science and information technology, in collaboration with the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences, Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences and Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences.

The Foundation awards annually some prizes which aim at encouraging extraordinary scientific achievements in computers and communications technology.

The prize is awarded to the most qualified PhD students younger than 30 years selected from the 26 University partners from 15 different countries all over the world (UK, USA, France, Switzerland, Italy, Netherlands, Israel, Japon, Sweden, Greece, Germany, Hungary, Austria, Lithuania, Canada).

Each award is of USD 5 000,00 and at Politecnico di Milano is assigned to 2 PhD degrees in the PhD in Information Technology Program.

Conditions:

Selection is made among the PhD students who completed their PhD Program in the course of the year of the competition for the Foundation's prizes.

The Board of the PhD in Information Technology Program selects the students and sends the candidatures to the Board of the Chorafas Foundation.

The selected candidates will be chosen on the basis of:
Final result of the PhD thesis
Curriculum vitae

Deadlines:

The nominations of the Politecnico di Milano are sent to the Foundation within the month of April of each year. The Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation communicates the official results of the prize winner within September.

Awards recipients:

2020

Dr. Alberto MARCHESI

ALBERTO MARCHESI

"Leadership Games: Multiple Followers, Multiple Leaders, and Perfection"

ALESSIO LA BELLA

"Optimization-based Control of Microgrids for Ancillary Services Provision and Islanded Operation"

2019

ALBERTO BERNARDINI
"Advances in wave digital modeling of linear and nonlinear systems"

DMYTRO CHERNIAK
"Digitally-intensive frequency modulators for mm-Wave FMCW radars"

2019

GIUSEPPE DE NITTIS
"Patrolling adversarial environments exploiting an alarm system"

ALESSANDRO FALSONE
"Distributed decision making with application to energy systems"

2017

ABDULRAHMAN KAITOUA
"Scalable Data Management and Processing for Genomic Computing"

RAFAEL SCHMITT 
"CASCADE - A Framework for Modeling Fluvial Sediment Connectivity and 
Its Application for Designing Low Impact Hydropower Portfolios"

2016

STEFANO AMBROGIO
"Modeling of reliability and neuromorphic application of resistive switching devices"

MATTEO PIROTTA
"Reinforcement learning: from theory to algorithms"

2015

STEFANO GRILLANDA
"Devices and technologies for large scale integrated photonics control"

MARCO ROCCO
"Computationally efficient techniques for economic mechanisms"

2014

SILVIO DEL GIUDICE
"Acoustic Pipeline Monitoring: Theory And Technology"

VALERIO PANZICA LA MANNA
"Safe and Efficient Dynamic Updates of Distributed Software Systems"

2013

ANTONIO FILIERI
"Model-Based Verification and Adaptation of Software Systems @Runtime"

GIOVANNI MARZIN
"Design of a High-Efficiency Wideband Phase Modulator for Wireless Systems"

2012

LUIGI MALAGÒ
"On the Geometry of Optimization based on the Exponential Family Relaxation"

ILARIA MALANCHINI
"Game Theoretic Models for Resource Sharing in Wireless Networks"

2011

ANDREA ABBA
"Methodology and Advanced Electronic Architectures for High Performance Digital Processing"

CARLO FERRARI
"VLSI photonic devices for all-optical signal processing"

2010

ALBERTO DALLA MORA
"Fast-Gated Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes and Applications"

FEDERICO MAGGI
"Integrated Detection of Anomalous Behavior of Computer Infrastructures"

2009

COLOMBO ALESSANDRO
"Bifurcation Analysis of Discontinuous Systems: Theory and Applications"

LUINI LORENZO
"MultiEXCELL: a large-scale rain field model for propagation applications and its experimental identification (Alphasat)"

2008

SANTAMBROGIO MARCO DOMENICO
"Hardware/Software codesign methodologies for dynamically reconfigurable systems"

SAVAZZI STEFANO
"Analysis and Design of Cooperative Networks in Fading Channels"

2007

GASPARINI SIMONE
"3D Reconstruction of Geometrical Features from Single Catadioptric Images"

TANELLI MARA
"Active braking control systems design for road vehicles"

GUSMEROLI RICCARDO
"Advanced models for performance and reliability evaluation of scaled transistors and memories"

2006

NEGRI LUCA
"Power Modelling and Optimisation for Wireless Networks"

PALERMO GIANLUCA
"Design Methodologies for Embedded Architectures Based on Network on Chip"

GARCEA GIOVANNI
"Novel Digital Control Techniques Applied to DC-DC Converters in Distributed Power Architectures"

2005

MARTIGNON FABIO
"Enhanced Bandwidth Estimation and Loss Differentiation in the TCP Congestion Control Scheme"

CASTELLETTI ANDREA FRANCESCO
"Water Reservoirs Network Control in Stochastic Environment"

PLEBANI PIERLUIGI
"Searching and Invoking e-Services in Multichannel Information Systems"