Awards

2022  Amazon Research Award

I'm very glad to be one of the recipients of the "2022  Amazon Research Award". The award provides funds and Amazon Web Services (AWS) credits to researchers studying a variety of topics and disciplines.

2021  IEEE TETCI Outstanding Paper award

I'm very glad to have received the "2021  IEEE TETCI Outstanding Paper Award" from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society for the journal publication entitled "Light Gated Recurrent Units for Speech Recognition".

Best PhD in ICT at University of Trento (2016-2017)

I'm very glad to have received the "2021  IEEE TETCI Outstanding Paper Award" from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society for the journal publication entitled "Light Gated Recurrent Units for Speech Recognition".

Best FBK Student Award

I'm honored to have won the "Best FBK Student Award 2017". It is a very important recognition for the work conducted during my PhD.

Best IBM paper award at ICASSP 2017

The following paper won the "IBM best student paper award" at ICASSP 2017:

Mirco Ravanelli, Philemon Brakel, Maurizio Omologo, Yoshua Bengio, "A network of Deep Neural Networks for Distant Speech Recognition" [pdf]

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Franco Ferrero Award

I won the “Franco Ferrero” award for the best paper written by a young author at AISV 2013 (speech technology category). The Award ceremony has been held in Turin on January 23 during the AISV 2014 conference. The paper “Distant Talking Speech Recognition in Surgery Room: the DOMHOS project” has been written with the contributions of Alessandro Sosi, Marco Matassoni, Maurizio Omologo, Matteo Benetti and Giovanni Pedrotti.