Promoting and recognizing the quality and impact of research is one of the strategic objectives of the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering – Politecnico di Milano. Within this framework, the Award for the Best Publications by Young Researchers recorded particularly strong participation in its 2025 edition, with more than 70 submissions received.
The selected works, authored by researchers under the age of 40 as first authors, highlight the high scientific standard and the dynamism of the Department’s research community. The publications span a wide range of disciplinary areas, from biomedical engineering to artificial intelligence, from photonics to emerging technologies for autonomous transport services, demonstrating significant impact both at the scientific and application levels.
Below is the list of the awarded articles. The names of the Department’s researchers are shown in bold.
Mattia Ballerini, Serena Galiè, Punit Tyagi, Carlotta Catozzi, Hariam Raji, Amir Nabinejad, Angeli D. G. Macandog, Alessandro Cordiale, Bianca Ionela Slivinschi, Karol K. Kugiejko, Martina Freisa, Paola Occhetta, Jennifer A. Wargo, Pier F. Ferrucci, Emilia Cocorocchio, Nicola Segata, Andrea Vignati, Andrey Morgun, Michela Deleidi, Teresa Manzo, Marco Rasponi, Luigi Nezi. A gut-on-a-chip incorporating human faecal samples and peristalsis predicts responses to immune checkpoint inhibitors for melanoma. Nature Biomedical Engineering, vol. 9, 967–984, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-024-01318-z
Andrea Colombo, Anna Bernasconi, Stefano Ceri. An LLM-assisted ETL pipeline to build a high-quality knowledge graph of the Italian legislation. Information Processing & Management, vol. 62, 4, 104082, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2025.104082
Alessandro di Tria, Gabriele Cavicchioli, Pietro Giannoccaro, Francesco Morichetti, Andrea Melloni, Giorgio Ferrari, Marco Sampietro, Francesco Zanetto. High-Precision Automated Setting of Arbitrary Magnitude and Phase of Mach–Zehnder Interferometers for Scalable Optical Computing. Laser & Photonics Reviews, e00610, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1002/lpor.202500610
Marco Mussi, Simone Drago, Marcello Restelli, Alberto Maria Metelli. Factored-reward bandits with intermediate observations: Regret minimization and best arm identification. Artificial Intelligence, vol. 347, 104362, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2025.104362
Matteo Farronato, Piergiulio Mannocci, Alessandro Milozzi, Christian Monzio Compagnoni, Alessandro Barcellona, Andrea Arena, Marco Crepaldi, Gabriella Panuccio, Daniele Ielmini. Seizure detection via reservoir computing in MoS2-based charge trap memory devices. Science Advances, vol.11, eadr3241, 2025. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr3241
Junling Fu, Giorgia Maimone, Elisa Iovene, Jianzhuang Zhao, Alberto Redaelli, Giancarlo Ferrigno, Elena De Momi. Human-Inspired Active Compliant and Passive Shared Control Framework for Robotic Contact-Rich Tasks in Medical Applications. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 41, 2549-2568, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1109/TRO.2025.3548493
Sara Zaminga, Andres Martinez, Heming Huang, Damien Rontani, Francesco Morichetti, Andrea Melloni & Frédéric Grillot. Optical chaotic signal recovery in turbulent environments using a programmable optical processor. Light: Science & Applications, vol. 14, 131, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-025-01784-3
Alberto Maria Metelli, Alessio Russo, Marcello Restelli. Minimax off-policy evaluation and learning with subgaussian and differentiable importance weighting. Artificial Intelligence, vol. 348, 104419, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2025.104419
Antonio Pagliaroli, Silvia Strada, Simone Scevaroli, Sergio Savaresi. Determining the minimum urban fleet for a valet style autonomous mobility service using real trip data. Nature, Scientific Reports vol. 15, 32789, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-17607-9
Raffele Viterbo, Federico Campolo, Mattia Cerutti, Satyesh Awasthi, Stefano Arrigoni, Mattia Brambilla, Monica Nicoli. A 5G Roadside Infrastructure Assisting Connected and Automated Vehicles in Vulnerable Road User Protection. IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, 1-1, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1109/OJITS.2025.3552849