Matthias Pezzutto (former PhD student at DEI; supervisor prof. Luca Schenato) received the "Best Italian PhD. Thesis Award in Automation and Control 2022" for his thesis "Predictive constrained control over wireless - From stability to safety " offered by SIDRA (Società Italiana Docenti e Ricercatori in Automatica).

The team of IAS-Lab (Bacchin, Ghidoni, Menegatti) headed by Emanuele Menegatti won the first prize of "SMACT Call 4 Ideas 2022" 
in the "Zero-waste & green transition" trajectory. This is a monetary award of 10.000 € for developing the proposed "Waste Sorting Robot based on Deep-Learning". This project is also founded by PON 2021, with the PhD scholarship of Alberto Bacchin.

The IAS-Lab team composed by Matteo Terreran (team leader), Daniele Evangelista, Davide Allegro, Emanuele Menegatti and Stefano Ghidoni won the 1st ADvanced Agile ProducTion (ADAPT) field campaign competition organized by Tampere University, Finland, in the context of the Metrics European project. The team ranked first in both the video track and the live demo track.