Awards

  • 2024 Best Paper Award of the Elsevier Vehicular Communications for the paper: L. Barbieri, S. Savazzi, M. Brambilla, M. NICOLI, “Decentralized Federated Learning for Extended Sensing in 6G Connected Vehicles,” Elsevier Vehicular Communications, Special Issue on Special Issue on Revolutionary Paradigms for Smart Connected Vehicles in the 6G Era, Vol. 33, Jan. 2022, 100396.
  • 2023  National Scientific Qualification (ASN) as Full Professor in Communications Engineering, Settore Concorsuale 09/F2 – Telecomunicazioni.
  • 2022 Best Paper Award of the 21st Mediterranean Microwave Symposium (MMS), cosponsored by the European Microwave Association (EuMA) and IEEE, for the paper: S. Tebaldini, M. Rizzi, M. Manzoni, A. Monti Guarnieri, C. Prati, D. Tagliaferri, M. Nicoli, U. Spagnolini, I. Russo and C. Mazzucco, “SAR Imaging in automotive scenarios”. 
  • 2021 Best Paper Award of the 2021 IEEE Symposium on Joint Communications and Sensing (JC&S), for the paper: D. Tagliaferri, M. Rizzi, S. Tebaldini, M. Nicoli, I. Russo, C. Mazzucco, A.V. Monti-Guarnieri, C.M. Prati and U. Spagnolini, “Cooperative Synthetic Aperture Radar in an Urban Connected Car Scenario”.
  • 2018 Best Student Paper Award of the 2018 IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, for the paper: M. Brambilla, G. Soatti, M. Nicoli, “Precise vehicle positioning by cooperative feature association and tracking in vehicular networks”.
  • 2015 Best Booth Award at the European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), for the European FP7 Project DIWINE, “Dense cooperative WIreless NEtwork”.
  • 2014  Best Paper Award of the IET Intelligent Transport Systems journal, for the paper: A. Pascale, M. Nicoli, F. Deflorio, B. Dalla Chiara, U. Spagnolini, “Wireless sensor networks for traffic management and road safety”.
  • 2008 Appreciated reviewer, by IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
  • 2003  Inventor Siemens, by Siemens for patents filed in 2001-2002.
  • 2002-2006 Appreciated reviewer, by IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
  • 2002  Inventor Siemens, by Siemens for patents filed in 1999-2001.
  • 1999  Marisa Bellisario Award.
  • 1998  Best Thesis Awards in Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences, by SPE and EAGE.
  • Best Thesis Awards won by MSc/PhD students I supervised: