Prizes and Awards

National and International Awards and Recognitions for Research Activities

 

·      2023 DAAD Post-DOC AiNet fellowship: winner of the prize of the German DAAD AiNet Foundation to be carried out at Universities in Germany for the realization of collaborations with a German research group on topics of Generative Models in Machine Learning (20% acceptance rate). The scholarship included reimbursement for travel, period of visit to the center, and membership in the DAAD AInet network of fellows and alumni. I was interviewed and admitted to the visiting of the Laboratory of Prof. Gemma Roig Lab (Goethe University, Frankfurt, Department of Computer Science), which I visited in December 2023. Website: https://www.daad.de/en/the-daad/postdocnet/fellows/fellows/#Dimitri


·         October 28-29, 2021: First Prize Winner, Rare Disease Hackathon 2021, (https://forumdellaleopolda.it/hackathon-2021/)


·      From 1 October 2015 to 31 March 2019: Winner of the competition for the PhD scholarship in Computer Science funded by the EPSRC (UK)

 

Additional Awards, Scholarships, and Award Travel

 

·       October 2023: Finalist at EpyHack Hackathon 2023 (https://forumdellaleopolda.it/epy-hack/)

·       December 2022: Finalist at the Premio Italia Giovane https://premioitaliagiovane.it/)

·      August 2019: Winner of the Clare Hall College Research Award (£650) to complete a period of study and visit at the MILA Research Centre (Montreal, Canada)

·      13-17 May 2019: Winner of the Complex Systems Society (CSS) Prize to participate in the Spring School in Complex Networks, Como (Italy)

·      October 2018: Winner of the Travel Award organized by the Alan Turing Institute, London, to participate in the Workshop in "Innovative Data Science for Alzheimer's"

·       Academic Year 2014/2015: Santander Scholarship, received from Clare Hall College University of Cambridge

·       April 2015: Finalist of the BCS Women Lovelace colloquium Poster Contest, at the Informatics Forum in Edinburgh (University of Edinburgh)

·    Academic Year 2012/2013: winner of a scholarship (for academic merits), reserved for students enrolled in the first year of the master's degree course in Computer and Automation Engineering, at DIISM, University of Siena

·   Academic Year 2009/2010: Winner of the Scholarship (for academic merits) announced by the Tuscany Region for women enrolled in Scientific Subjects, at DIISM, University of Siena

·     Academic Year 2009/2010: Winner of the Scholarship (for academic merits) for students enrolled in the first year of the three-year degree course in Computer Engineering, at DIISM, University of Siena

·      Academic Year 2009/2010: Winner of the Scholarship (for academic merits) for recent graduates in memory of Gaia Gotti organized by the Contrada del Drago (Siena)

·       Academic Year 2009/2010: Winner of the Rotary Siena Est Scholarship (RYLA)

·    Academic Year 2009/2010: Winner of the MIUR Scholarship for merits related to the State exam, enrolment in the National Register of Excellence

·      12-18 July 2018: Selected by the Scuola Normale Superiore to participate in the Summer Orientation School in Colle di Val D'Elsa organized by the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa)

·      Years 2003-2004-2007-2009: Winner of the "Don Muzzi" Scholarship: organized by Chianti Banca, Banca Credito Cooperativo Monteriggioni (Siena)

 

Awards for academic and sporting awards

 

·  2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019: University of Cambridge Hawks Award for Excellence in Sport and Higher Education

·  2014/2015 Full Blues Award from the University of Cambridge and Half Blues Award in 2015/2016 and 2018/2019

·  2015, 2016 and 2019: Clare Hall Blues Awards, Clare Hall College and University of Cambridge

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