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  1. 2024 Best Paper Award of the Elsevier Vehicular Communications Journal<\/a><\/strong> for the paper: L. Barbieri, S. Savazzi, M. Brambilla, M. NICOLI, \u201cDecentralized Federated Learning for Extended Sensing in 6G Connected Vehicles,\u201d Elsevier Vehicular Communications, Special Issue on Special Issue on Revolutionary Paradigms for Smart Connected Vehicles in the 6G Era, Vol. 33, Jan. 2022, 100396.<\/li>\n
  2. 2023\u00a0 National Scientific Qualification (ASN)<\/a> as Full Professor in Communications Engineering<\/strong>, Settore Concorsuale 09\/F2 – Telecomunicazioni.<\/li>\n
  3. 2022 <\/strong>Best Paper Award <\/strong><\/a>of the 21st Mediterranean Microwave Symposium (MMS)<\/strong>, 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”.\u00a0<\/li>\n
  4. 2021 Best Paper Award<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>of the 2021 IEEE Symposium on Joint Communications and Sensing (JC&S)<\/strong>, 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\u201d.<\/li>\n
  5. 2018 Best Paper Award<\/a><\/strong> of the 2018 IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing<\/strong>, for the paper: M. Brambilla, G. Soatti, M. Nicoli, \u201cPrecise vehicle positioning by cooperative feature association and tracking in vehicular networks<\/a>\u201d.<\/li>\n
  6. 2015 Best Booth Award<\/a><\/strong> at the European Conference on Networks and Communications<\/strong> (EuCNC), for the European FP7 Project DIWINE, \u201cDense cooperative WIreless NEtwork\u201d.<\/li>\n
  7. 2014\u00a0 Best Paper Award<\/a><\/strong> of the IET Intelligent Transport Systems journal<\/strong>, for the paper: A. Pascale, M. Nicoli, F. Deflorio, B. Dalla Chiara, U. Spagnolini, \u201cWireless sensor networks for traffic management and road safety<\/a>\u201d.<\/li>\n
  8. 2008 Appreciated Reviewer<\/strong>, by IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.<\/li>\n
  9. 2003\u00a0 Inventor Siemens<\/strong>, by Siemens for patents filed in 2001-2002.<\/li>\n
  10. 2002-2006 Appreciated Reviewer<\/strong>, by IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.<\/li>\n
  11. 2002\u00a0 Inventor Siemens<\/strong>, by Siemens for patents filed in 1999-2001.<\/li>\n
  12. 1999\u00a0<\/strong> Marisa Bellisario Award,<\/strong><\/a> 11th<\/sup> Edition<\/strong>, assigned yeary at a national level by the Marisa Bellisario Foundation to the 3 best MSc graduates in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering.<\/li>\n
  13. 1998\u00a0 SPE-EAGE Best Thesis Award<\/strong>\u00a0in Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences, by SPE and EAGE.<\/li>\n
  14. Best Thesis Awards<\/strong> won by MSc\/PhD students I supervised:\n