Awards and Recognitions Mujtaba Hussain Mirza and Maria Rosaria Briglia: A* conference (details for paper: "Shedding more light on robust classifiers under the lens of energy-based models." In European Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 451-468. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024). Lorenzo Piarulli et al.: Best paper award at INTELLI 2025, for the paper "Automation of Beer Dispensers: A Cyber-Physical System Solution". Flavio Giorgi and Matteo Silvestri (XL ciclo): Best Paper Award for an article presented at the Workshop Human-Centric AI of CIKM 2025 (A). Briland Hitaj: Premio "Mattia Gastaldello" miglior paper 2017-2018. Georgia Koutsandria: N^2 Women Young Researcher Fellowship, IEEE WoWMoM 2018. Michele Martinelli: Best poster award at HPDC 2017 for "GPU I/O persistent kernel for latency bound systems", HPDC 2017. Georgia Koutsandria: Best Student Paper Runner-up for "WHARP: A Wake-up Radio and Harvesting-based Forwarding Strategy for Green Wireless Networks" at IEEE MASS 2017. Emanuele Natale: Best PhD thesis award from the Italian chapter of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science, EATCS Awards. Giorgia Di Tommaso: Best Student paper at CSCWD 2017 for "Detecting Network Leaders in Enterprises", CSCWD 2017. Giorgia Di Tommaso: Toptal STEM scholarship for women, Toptal press release. Ilario Bonacina: Best PhD thesis award from the Italian chapter of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science, EATCS Awards. Emanuele Natale: Best Student paper at ESA 2016 for "KADABRA is an ADaptive Algorithm for Betweenness via Random Approximation", ESA 2016. Jose Camacho Collados: Google PhD Fellowship 2016, Google Research Blog. Erisa Terolli: Anita Borg Scholar 2015, Anita Borg Scholar 2015. Alberto Compagno: Best Student Paper at ACNS 2015 for "Violating Consumer Anonymity: Geo-locating Nodes in Named Data Networking", ACNS 2015. Marco Valerio Barbera, Sokol Kosta, Vasile Claudiu Perta: IEEE INFOCOM 2013 Best Demo Award, http://infocom.di.unimi.it/index.php/awards.html. Emilio Coppa, Alessandro Epasto: Laureati eccellenti alla Sapienza Award, http://www.alumni.uniroma1.it/attivita/giornatalaureato.htm. Alessandro Cammarano, Dora Spenza: IEEE INFOCOM 2013 Best Student Poster Award, http://infocom.di.unimi.it/index.php/awards.html. Alessandro Epasto: 2011 Google European Doctoral Fellowship in Algorithms, http://research.google.com/university/relations/fellowship_recipients.html. Blerina Sinaimeri: 2010 EACTS Best Italian PhD Thesis in Theoretical Computer Science, http://www.eatcs.org/index.php/italian-chapter/565. Dora Spenza: 2010 Google European Doctoral Fellowship in Wireless Networking, http://research.google.com/university/relations/fellowship_recipients.html. Simone Silvestri: ICNP 2009 Best Paper Award, http://w3.uniroma1.it/dipinfo/riconoscimenti.asp. Roberto Navigli: AI*IA Marco Cadoli National Prize 2007 for the Best PhD Thesis in AI. Luca Trevisan: Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award at the 1997 Symposium on Theory of Computing, http://www.sigact.org/Prizes/student/. Top Publications Mujtaba Hussain Mirza and Maria Rosaria Briglia: "Shedding more light on robust classifiers under the lens of energy-based models." In European Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 451-468. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. Flavio Chierichetti, Mirko Giacchini, Alessandro Panconesi, Andrea Vattani: "A New Impossibility Result for Online Bipartite Matching Problems" in Proceedings of ICALP 2025. Flavio Chierichetti, Mirko Giacchini, Ravi Kumar, Alessandro Panconesi, Andrew Tomkins: "Tight Bounds for Learning RUMs from Small Slates" in Proceedings of NeurIPS 2024. Daniele De Sensi, Saverio Pasqualoni, Lorenzo Piarulli, and Tommaso Bonato, Seydou Ba, Matteo Turisini, Jens Domke, Torsten Hoefler: "Bine Trees: Enhancing Collective Operations by Optimizing Communication Locality" in Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC'25), Nov 2025. Flavio Chierichetti, Mirko Giacchini, Ravi Kumar: "On the Metricity of the Chatterjee Correlation Coefficient" in The American Statistician (journal, 2025). Alessandro Panconesi, Pietro Maria Posta, Mirko Giacchini: "Coordinating '7 Billion Humans' Is Hard" in Proceedings of FUN 2024. Flavio Giorgi, Cesare Campagnano, Fabrizio Silvestri, Gabriele Tolomei: "Natural Language Counterfactual Explanations for Graphs Using Large Language Models." in Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, PMLR 258:3565-3573, AISTATS 2025. Flavio Giorgi, Fabiano Veglianti, Fabrizio Silvestri, Gabriele Tolomei: "Countering Overfitting with Counterfactual Examples." KDD 2026 (A*). Loru, E., Nudo, J., Di Marco, N., Santirocchi, A., Atzeni, R., Cinelli, M., ... & Quattrociocchi, W.: "The simulation of judgment in LLMs." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(42), e2518443122, 2025. (Also mentioned two enthusiastic commentaries in Nature Computational Science (IF 18) and PNAS, and covered by media). Nudo, J., Cinelli, M., Baronchelli, A., & Quattrociocchi, W.: "From Niche to Mainstream: Community Size and Engagement in Social Media Conversations." IEEE Transaction in Computational Science (Q1 Scimago), 2025. Esposito, M. and Leva, A. and Mancini, T. and Picchiami, L. and Tronci, E.: "Simulation-Based Design of Industry-Size Control Systems with Formal Quality Guarantees" in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 21 (2025) (ScimagoJR: Q1, Impact factor: 11.7). Picchiami, L. and Parmentier, M. and Legay, A. and Mancini, T. and Tronci, E.: "Scaling Up Statistical Model Checking of Cyber-Physical Systems via Algorithm Ensemble and Parallel Simulations over HPC Infrastructures" in Journal of Systems and Software, 219 (2025) (ScimagoJR: Q1, Impact factor: 4.1). Esposito, M. and Mancini, T. and Tronci, E.: "Optimizing Fault-Tolerant Quality-Guaranteed Sensor Deployments for UAV Localization in Critical Areas via Computational Geometry" in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, 54(3) (2024) (ScimagoJR: Q1, Impact factor: 8.7). Magliarisi, D., Casalicchio, E. & Salvatore, V.: "Orbit-aware task scheduling in satellite edge computing." Cluster Comput 28, 1013 (2025). R. Lanzino, D. Avola, F. Fontana, L. Cinque, F. Scarcello, and G. L. Foresti: "SATEER: subject-aware transformer for eeg-based emotion recognition," Int. j. neural syst., vol. 35, iss. 2, p. 2550002:1–2550002:18, 2025. F. Fontana, R. Lanzino, M. R. Marini, D. Avola, L. Cinque, F. Scarcello, and G. L. Foresti: "Distilled gradual pruning with pruned fine-tuning," IEEE trans. artif. intell., vol. 5, iss. 8, p. 4269–4279, 2024. Venanzi, V., Princic, A., Marini, M. R., Foresti, G. L., & Cinque, L.: "MusiKeyrtual: A Framework to Play a Musical Keyboard in Augmented Reality." International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 1-13, 2025.