08/09/2025
Andrea BRILLI (37th cycle - ABRO OR) won the 2025 AYDA (AIROYoung Dissertation Award) for the best doctoral thesis discussed in Operations Research at an Italian university during the period July 1, 2024 – May 31, 2025. with his thesis entitled ‘Derivative-Free Optimisation: worst-case complexity for Line-Search methods and a Mixed Penalty-Barrier approach’ (supervisor G. Liuzzi).
Among the finalists was also Daniele PATRIA, our PhD student (37th cycle - ABRO OR) (supervisor M. de Santis, G. Liuzzi).
The finalists presented their theses during the ODS2025 - Optimisation and Decision Science conference in Milan on 3-5 September 2025.