28 July 2025
Drones Best PhD Thesis Award—Winner Announced


It is our great pleasure to announce the winner of the Drones 2024 Best PhD Thesis Award. This award is given in recognition of a PhD student or recently qualified PhD who has produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential.

The award has been granted to the following thesis:

“UAV Detection Based on Adaptive Radar Signal Processing”
by Ahmed Sayed, University of Waterloo, Canada

The winner will receive an honorarium of CHF 800, an electronic certificate, and a voucher to waive the Article Processing Charges (APCs) for one submission in the Drones (ISSN: 2504-446X) journal (subject to peer review)—valid for one year.

On behalf of the Evaluation Committee, we want to congratulate the winner on his accomplishments. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the applicants for submitting their exceptional theses and the Award Committee for voting on and helping with this award.

Drones Editorial Office

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