PhD Programme in Computer Science and Mathematics

Giuseppe Spillo (XXXVIII Cycle ) Best Student Paper Award, paper: "Combining Graph Neural Networks and Sentence Encoders for Knowledge-aware Recommendations"By Giuseppe Spillo, Cataldo Musto, Marco Polignano, Pasquale Lops, Marco de Gemmis, Giovanni Semeraro, ACM UMAP (core ranking: B) UMAP 23 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization DOi: https://doi.org/10.1145/3565472.3592965, https://www.acm.org/conferences/best-paper-awards
Pasquale De Marinis (XXXVIII cycle) Best Paper Distinction Award, paper "Applying knowledge distillation to improve weed mapping with drones" FedCSIS 2023,
Davide Di Pierro (XXXVIII cycle), paper: "Holistic Graph-based Document Representation and Management for Open Science" selected by the 27th
International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL2023) among the 3 best papers appeared in the International Journal
of Digital Libraries (IJDL, Springer) in the last years. https://tpdl2023.dei.unipd.it/program.html
Annunziata D'Aversa and Stefano Polimena (XXXVII cycle), Best Student Paper Award,

paper "Leveraging spatio-temporal autocorrelation phenomena to improve the forecasting of the energy consumption in smart grids",

Discovery Science 2022 (core ranking: B) https://ds2022.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/12
Malik Al-Essa (XXXVI cycle) Best Paper Award, paper: Malik Al-Essa, Giuseppina Andresini, Annalisa Appice, Donato Malerba:An XAI-based adversarial training approach for cyber-threat detection. DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech 2022: 1-8, https://cyber-science.org/2022/awards/
Marco Gallo (XXXV cycle), winner of the Premio di tesi di Dottorato "Enrico Jannelli" – a.a. 2022/2023, https://www.dm.uniba.it/it/risorse/bacheca-notizie/2023/2023-assegnazione-premio-jannelli-2022-2023
Giuseppina Andresini (XXXIV cycle), winner of the con.Scienze Award http://www.conscienze.it/premi_2122_vincitori.asp