2025 Best Dissertation Award

Andrea Cini, PhD graduate from the Faculty of Informatics, Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland), won the third edition of the Informatics Europe 2025 Best Dissertation Award (BDA) with his thesis titled “Graph Deep Learning for Time Series Forecasting”. The Award, sponsored by Springer, was presented during the 21st European Informatics Leaders Summit (ECSS 2025), an in-person event in Rennes, France. This year saw a record 34 nominations for the Award. Alongside the winner, three runners-up and two distinguished finalists were honoured.

Runners-up

• Nathan Cassee, TU Eindhoven (NL): “Sentiment in Software Engineering”
• Erasmo Purificato, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (DE): “Fairness Analysis of Graph Neural Networks for Behavioral User Modeling”
• Drishti Yadav, TU Wien (AT): “Enhancing Fault Diagnosis in Safety-Critical Cyber-Physical Systems”

Distinguished finalists

• Federica Filippini, Politecnico di Milano (IT): “Resource Allocation and Scheduling Problems in Computing Continua for AI Applications”
• Shuzhe Wang, Aalto University (FI): “Deep Learning Methods for Point Matching, Visual Localization and 3D Reconstruction”

Learn more about the Award, 2025 winner, runners-up and distinguished finalists in the post-ceremony press release.

We close this year's process by warmly thanking the 2025 Award Committee:

• Premek Brada, University of West Bohemia, Czechia (Co-Chair)
• Dimka Karastoyanova, University of Groningen, the Netherlands (Co-Chair)
• Marco Aiello, University of Stuttgart, Germany
• Gert Jervan, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
• Ernestina Menasalvas, Technical University of Madrid, Spain