2023 Best Dissertation Award
Pepa Atanasova, PhD graduate at the University of Copenhagen, wins the first edition of the Informatics Europe Best Dissertation Award with her thesis titled “Accountable and Explainable Methods for Complex Reasoning over Text”. The Award, sponsored by Springer, was presented during the 19th European Computer Science Summit (ECSS 2023), an in-person event in Edinburgh, UK. Apart from the winner, the four runners-up were selected by the Award Committee (sorted by last name in alphabetical order):
- Salvatore Di Girolamo, ETH Zurich with the dissertation "Application-driven network and storage optimizations"
- Sebastian Hofstätter, TU Wien with the dissertation "Optimizing the cost-effectiveness tradeoff in neural ranking"
- Shiwei Liu, Eindhoven University of Technology with the dissertation "Sparse neural network training with in-time over-parameterization"
- Francesco Pierri, Politecnico di Milano with the dissertation "Characterization and detection of disinformation spreading in online social networks".
Learn more about the Award and 2023 winner in the post-ceremony press-release.
| On the photo from left to right: Francesco Pierri (Runner Up, Politecnico di Milano), Elisabetta Di Nitto (Award Committee Chair, Politecnico di Milano), Welmoed Spahr (Vice President Computer Science Books, Springer), Pepa Atanasova (WInner, University of Copenhagen),.Enrico Nardelli (Informatics Europe President), Shiwei Liu (Runner Up, Eindhoven University of Technology). |
We close this year process by warmly thanking the 2023 Award Committee:
- Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano (Chair)
- Jean Marc Jézequel, IRISA / University of Rennes
- Gregor Engels, Universität Paderborn
- Harald Gall, University of Zurich
- Dimka Karastoyanova, University of Groningen.