15 April 2024
Electronics 2023 Best Ph.D. Thesis Award—Winners Announced

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We are pleased to announce the winners of the Electronics 2023 Best Ph.D. Thesis Award. This award is for two Ph.D. students or recently qualified Ph.D.’s who have produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential.
The award has been granted to the following:
“Hardware-friendly Low-bit Quantization for Neural Network Compression”
by Dr. Haotong Qin, Beihang University, China
“Analysis and Improvements of Four-Wire Power Converters for Electric Vehicle Chargers”
by Dr. Riccardo Mandrioli, University of Bologna, Italy
Each winner will receive CHF 800, a certificate, and a chance to publish a paper free of charge after peer review in Electronics (ISSN: 2079-9292) in 2024.
On behalf of the evaluation committee—Prof. Dr. George A Tsihrintzis, Prof. Dr. Francisco Falcone, Prof. Dr. Xiongfeng Ma, and Prof. Dr. Giulio Antonini—we congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the applicants for submitting their exceptional theses and thank the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.
Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero
Editor-in-Chief of Electronics