Best PhD Thesis

• Awardee: Francesca Naretto, Scuola Normale Superiore
• Title: Explainable AI methods and their interplay with privacy protection
• Advisors: Fosca Giannotti, Anna Monreale

Best Master Thesis

• Awardee: Simone Baccile, Università di Pisa
• Title: Braess Paradox: The Ecological Impact of Road Removal on CO2 Emissions
• Advisors: Luca Pappalardo

Best PhD Thesis

• Awardee: Iacopo Colonnelli, Università degli Studi di Torino
• Title: Workflow Models for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems
• Advisors: Marco Aldinucci

Best Master Thesis

• Awardee: Laura Menotti, Università degli Studi di Padova
• Title: Reproducibility and Generalization of a Relation Extraction System for Gene-Disease Associations
• Advisors: Gianmaria Silvello, Stefano Marchesin

Best PhD Thesis

• Awardee: Anna Bernasconi, Politecnico di Milano
• Title: Model, Integrate, Search... Repeat: A Sound Approach to Building Integrated Repositories of Genomic Data
• Advisors: Stefano Ceri, Alessandro Campi

Best Master Thesis

• Awardee: Giovanni Mauro​, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
• Title: A GAN-based approach for generating mobility networks
• Advisors: Luca Pappalardo, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho