Awards
This award is addressed to PhD students and young researchers (scholars who have been earning phd for no more than 6 years as of August 31, 2025) working in the area of Classification, Clustering and related topics who submit, as the first author, a paper to the CLADAG Conference 2025, applying for this competition. The paper is essentially the work of the PhD student/Young researcher. The paper should involve original methodological research, a novel application, or software related to some aspect of Classification, Clustering, Data Science and related topics.
The competition candidates must submit a paper to the Springer book “Advances in Supervised and Unsupervised Statistical Data Analysis” as described within the call for papers by March 15, 2025. Further details will be provided.
CLADAG 2025 PhD Student/Young Researcher Paper Award
CLADAG 2023 PhD Student/Young Researcher Paper Award
The award is addressed to PhD students and young researchers (age less than 35 years on 31 August 2023) working in the area of Classification, Clustering and related topics. For more information: PhD Student/Young Researcher Paper Award.
The winners are reported below (in alphabetical order).
Andrea Cappozzo (Politecnico of Milan)
Alessandro Casa (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Fabio Centofanti (University of Naples Federico II)
Salvatore Daniele Tomarchio (University of Catania)
Data Contests
The event is part of the initiative “Growth, Culture, Human and Social Capital: Youth for the Territory – First Edition 2023.” It features a competition among teams of undergraduate and graduate students from across Italy, who will analyze ISTAT census and survey data to create a data journalism-style poster on the theme “Telling the Story of Our Society Through Data: Pathways to Sustainable Development.” For further information: https://www.statlab-unisa.it/cladag2023/data-context/.
The winners are reported below.
Project: Casa e società: dati chiave sul diritto abitativo. Team: Statistical Minds (Vincenzo Iannuzzi, Desirée Magno, Viviana Rossi, University of Salerno)
Project: L’Italia Solitaria. Team: This bootstrap are made for walking (Davide Ratto, Alfredo Galli, Riccardo Rubini, University of Milano-Bicocca)
The event promotes the application of the most recent methodologies proposed in the scientific literature to tackle the data-analytics challenges that real-word operating companies have to face throughout their activities. For further information: https://master-cesma.it/home/242-1267/cladag-2019.