“Marco Cadoli” Ph.D. Thesis Award (annual)

The “Marco Cadoli” award is aimed at newly graduated PhDs who have obtained their title from an Italian university with a dissertation focused on topics related to Artificial Intelligence.

The prize, amounting to 1000 Euros, is awarded annually, and it is open to those who have obtained their title starting from the first of January of the year prior to the current call and who have not previously applied for the same award. Only applications for dissertations on topics related to Artificial Intelligence will be considered.

List of past winners:

  • 2002 ex-equo Stefano Bistarelli and Marco Roveri
  • 2003 Marco Aiello
  • 2004 Paolo Lombardi
  • 2005 Claudio Castellini
  • 2006 Pasquale De Meo
  • 2007 Roberto Navigli. Special mention to Claudia D’Amato, Gian Luca Pozzato, Francesco Ricca and Nicola Zannone
  • 2008 Roberto Micalizio
  • 2009 Gian Diego Tipaldi. Special mention to Davide Bacciu
  • 2010 Michele Lombardi
  • 2011  Floriano Scioscia. Special mention to Chiara Damiani and Nicola Greggio
  • 2012  Nicola Basilico. Special mention to Luigi Cardamone e Evgeny Kharlamov
  • 2013  Elena Bellodi. Special mention to Sofia Ceppi e Domenico Fabio Savo
  • 2014  Alessio Bonfietti
  • 2015  Fabio Panozzo
  • 2016  Andrea Micheli
  • 2017  ex-aequo Simone Filice and Ferdinando Fioretto. Special mention to Filippo Bistaffa
  • 2018 Jacopo Banfi. Special mention to Giuseppe Cota
  • 2019 Gaetano Rossiello. Special mention to Alberto Molinari and Matteo Zavatteri
  • 2020 Giuseppe Marra. Special mention to Marcella Cornia and Dario Zanca
  • 2021 Alberto Maria Metelli. Special mention to Matteo Tiezzi
  • 2022 Matteo Castiglioni. Special mention to Andrea Tirinzoni
  • 2023 Leonardo Lamanna

Evaluation Committees

  • 2024 Alessandro Farinelli, Diodato Ferraioli, Viviana Patti, Alessandro Sperduti (president), Daniele Theseider Dupré