Tag: awards

Congratulations to my PhD supervisor, Professor Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen, on being awarded the Bode Prize for her groundbreaking research, "the closest you get to the Nobel Prize in cybernetics".

After defending my PhD thesis on the 20th of August, 2015, I received my diploma today. It was a beautiful ceremony at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, in Trondheim. Some photos and a video of the recorded ceremony are reported in the following.

It is a great pleasure and a true honour for me to communicate that I have been awarded a research scholarship from the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (OES) Scholarship program with regards to my PhD studies. OES awards only eight scholarships a year to deserving researchers across the world. The committee has officially announced the award with the following words: "Dear Filippo, Thank you for your interest and application to the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (OES) Scholarship program.

I am very glad to announce that our work titled "Fully-Immersive Hapto-Audio-Visual Framework for Remote Touch" has been awarded as the "Best Student Poster" at the Proceeding of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT’15), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 1-3, 2015.

IEEE 2019   IEEE Senior Member Grade Elevation IEEE 2018   Outstanding Section for Membership Recruitment and Retention Performance, Norway Section (as Membership Development Officer​ for the IEEE Norway Section) SOCRATIC Social innovation Hackathon 2017   1st prize at the SOCRATIC Social innovation Hackathon startup ideas in Trondheim, Norway IEEE 2016   Outstanding Section for Membership Recruitment and Retention Performance, Norway Sect

"Student Scholarship" for the article "The New Architecture of ModGrasp for Mind-Controlled Low-Cost Sensorised Modular Hands" at the Proceeding of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT), Seville, Spain, 2015.

"Third Prize" for the article "A Wave Simulator and Active Heave Compensation Framework for Demanding Offshore Crane Operations" at the Proceeding of the IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2015), Ocean Paper Poster Competition, Halifax, Canada. 2015.

"Best Student Poster" for the article "A Fully-Immersive Haptic, Audio and Visual Experience Framework" at the Proceeding of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT’15), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2015.