Awards and Grants
Demonstrating excellence at an early careeer stage
IJAR Young Researcher Award
As in previous editions, the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR) supports the research on Imprecise Probabilities by funding the IJAR Young Researcher Award. This Award is given to a student, or students, who demonstrate excellence in research at an early stage of the scientific career. The award consists in 1000โฌ and a certificate given by IJAR.
The IJAR young research jury is formed by Inรฉs Couso, Denis Mauรก and Paolo Vicig. After a careful evaluation of the applications, the jury has decided to give the following awards:
- Michele Caprio (first prize ex-aequo).
- Serafรญn Moral-Garcรญa (first prize ex-aequo).
- Floris Persiau (third prize).
Showing excellence in poster presentations
Poster Awards
As in previous editions, Wiley and Springer will support the poster awards, that are given to those authors doing high-quality poster presentations. The award consists in a book of Wiley or Springer as well as a certificate.
The poster jury is formed by Ruobin Gong, Alexander Erreygers, Raรบl Pรฉrez-Fernรกndez, Davide Petturiti and Arthur Van Camp, and the awards will be selected taking into account both the participants and the jury’s votes. The following prizes have been awarded:
- Gold prize: Keano de Vos, for Indistinguishability through Exchangeability in Quantum mechanics?
- Silver prize: Ignacio Montes, for Neighbourhood models induced by the Euclidean distance and the Kullback-Leibler divergence.
- Bronze prize: Daira Pinto Prieto, for A belief model for conflicting and uncertain evidence: connecting Dempster-Shafer theory and the topology of evidence.
- Emerging talent award: James Bailie, for Differential privacy: general inferential limits via intervals of measures.
- Emerging talent award: Lydia Castronovo, for A generalized notion of conjunction for conditional events.
- Special jury recognition: Roman Malinowski, for Uncertainty propagation using copulas in a 3D stereo-matching pipeline.ย
Supporting young researchers
Artificial Intelligence Journal Fellowships for PhD Students
We are happy to announce that Artificial Intelligence Journal has given funding to ISIPTA 2023 to support the attendance of 4 PhD or master students.
Taking into account the quality of the contribution and the reviewers reports, and giving priority to first authors of long papers, the Program Committee Board has decided to allocate these fellowships to the following participants:
PhD student and co-author of the long paper Differential Privacy: General Inferential Limits via Intervals of Measures.
PhD student and coauthor of the long paper “A Generalized Notion of Conjunction for Conditional Events”.
PhD student and author of the long paper “Testing the Coherence of Data and External Intervals via an Imprecise Sargan-Hansen Test”.
PhD student, coauthor of the long paper “In All Likelihoods: Robust Selection of Pseudo-Labeled Data” and coauthor of two 1-page abstracts.
