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Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Basilio Pueo
University Institute for Computing Research, Faculty of Education. University of Alicante, Spain
Khader Hamdia
Institute of Continuum Mechanics, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
Alberto Fernández-Isabel
Research Group of Foundations and Applications of Data Science, Rey Juan Carlos University Madrid, 28933 Móstoles, Madrid, Spain
Jarosław Rybak
Faculty of Civil Engineering, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
Giuseppe Ciaburro
Department of Architecture and Industrial Design, Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Aversa, Italy
Maria Luisa Villani
ENEA-Centro Ricerche Casaccia, Via Anguillarese 301, 00123 Rome, Italy
Winner
Gabor Sziebig
UIT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway
Hojong Choi
Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea
Aryan Rezaei Rad
EPFL ENAC IIC IBOIS, Switzerland
Ali Behnood
Purdue University, USA
Andreas Hoffmann
Max-Born-Institut, Berlin, Germany
Prof. Douglas O’Shaughnessy
Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, Canada
Winner
Ali Behnood
Purdue University, USA
Antonio D’Andrea
University of Rome, Italy
Antolino Gallego
Universidad de Granada, Spain
Carmelo Militello
Italian National Research Council, Rome (CNR), Italy