Andrea Brili (Sapienza Università di Roma) has won the 4th edition of the AIROYoung Dissertation Award (AYDA) with a Ph.D. thesis entitled “Derivative-Free Optimization: worst-case complexity for Line- Search methods and a Mixed Penalty-Barrier approach“, supervised by Prof. Giampaolo Liuzzi.
Andrea reached a total of 98 points, 8.5 of which assigned after the presentation at the ODS 2025 session dedicated to the AYDA.
Before assigning the prize, 22 expert reviewers have evaluated 8 candidate theses in 2 revision rounds. The average score of the theses has been 79.5 (out of 100), witnessing the high quality of the submitted theses.
Congratulations to all participants!
The other finalists were:
- Alberto Boggio Tomasaz (Università degli Studi di Milano) with a thesis entitled “Optimisation and Interdiction Problems for Network Safety” (supervisor Prof. Roberto Cordone)
- Davide Croci (Politecnico di Milano) with a thesis entitled “Advanced optimization algorithms for last-mile logistics” (supervisors Prof. Ola Jabali and Prof. Federico Malucelli)
- Daniele Patria (Sapienza Università di Roma) with a thesis entitled “Multiobjective integer and mixed-integer non-linear programming: exact approaches and applications” (supervisors Prof. Giampaolo Liuzzi and Prof. Marianna De Santis)