Serena Fugaro (University “Federico II” of Naples) has won the 1st edition of the AIROYoung Dissertation Award (AYDA) with a Ph.D. thesis entitled “Optimizing and Reoptimizing: Tackling Static and Dynamic Combinatorial Problems“, supervised by P. Festa.
Serena reached a total of 96.5 points. The prize was awarded at the ODS 2022 session dedicated to the AYDA.
Before assigning the prize, 15 expert reviewers have evaluated 8 candidate theses. The average score of the theses has been 89.87 (out of 100), witnessing the high quality of the submitted theses.
Congratulations to all participants!
The other finalists were:
- Anna Livia Croella (University “La Sapienza” of Rome) with a thesis entitled “Real-time Train Scheduling: Reactive and Proactive Algorithms for Safe an Reliable Railway Networks” (supervisor C. Mannino)
- Daniele Faccini (University of Bergamo) with a thesis entitled “Models and Approximations for Optimization Problems under Uncertainty with Applications to Support Vector Machine and Revenue Management” (supervisors F. Maccioni and A. Gaggero)
- Matteo Lapucci (University of Florence) with a thesis entitled “Theory and algorithms for sparsity constrained optimization problems” (supervisor M. Sciandrone)