Dear Colleagues,

The MDPI journal Applied System Innovation (ASI - mdpi.com/journal/asi) is inviting applications for the 2023 Best PhD Thesis Award. This prize will be awarded to a PhD student or recently qualified PhD graduate who has produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential. The applications will be assessed by an evaluation committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Christos Douligeris.

Eligibility and Requirements:
– The candidate must be a PhD student or recently qualified PhD graduate who has produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential;
– The PhD thesis must be their original work;
– The PhD thesis must be defended in 2023.

Required Application Documents:
– An executive summary of the PhD thesis in English of around 3000 words in length;
– A letter from the PhD supervisor recommending the candidate for consideration for this award;
– The candidate’s CV/resume, including a list of publications connected with the thesis;
– An electronic copy of the PhD thesis;
– A scanned copy of the PhD diploma (or certificate of studying at a school or research institute as a PhD student going to graduate or participate in graduation thesis defenses).

Selection Criteria:
– The quality of CV/resume and publications;
– The relevance of the candidate and research description;
– The novelty of the candidate’s PhD thesis;
– The strength of the recommendation letter;
– The anticipated academic potential;
– The originality and impact of the research.

Prizes:
– A monetary bonus (CHF 500);
– An electronic certificate;
– The offer to publish one paper free of charge in ASI following the usual peer review before the end of 2024.

The application deadline is 31 May 2024. The winner will be announced on the ASI website by the end of July 2024.

ASI Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the ASI 2022 Best Paper Award. All papers published in 2022 in ASI were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, two winners were selected.

One Review:
Digital Twins in the Automotive Industry: The Road toward Physical-Digital Convergence
By Authors: Dimitrios Piromalis and Antreas Kantaros
Appl. Syst. Innov. 2022, 5(4), 65; doi:10.3390/asi5040065

One Article:
A Novel Machine Learning Approach for Sentiment Analysis on Twitter Incorporating the Universal Language Model Fine-Tuning and SVM
By Authors: Barakat AlBadani, Ronghua Shi, and Jian Dong
Appl. Syst. Innov. 2022, 5(1), 13; doi: 10.3390/asi5010013

Each winner will receive CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in ASI in 2023 after peer review.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the ASI 2022 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of ASI.

ASI Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of ASI, I am pleased to announce the winner of the ASI 2021 Travel Award.

The award has been granted to: Mr. Mert Nakip, Ph.D. student of Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winner on his accomplishments.

ASI Evaluation Committee

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2020 Travel Award, sponsored by MDPI and Applied System Innovation (ASI).

Dr. Naser Ojaroudi Parchin is a Research Assistant and a PhD Fellow in the Faculty of Engineering and Informatics, University of Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom. He is working as Early-Stange Researcher (ESR) 7 of 13 ESRs of 8 research groups, spread across 4 leading Universities/research institutions and 4 industrial partners in 5 different European countries, targeting a Secure Network Coding for Reduced Energy Next Generation Mobile Small Cells (SECRET). He has an extremely strong track record, and exemplary references and publications.

As the awardee, Dr. Naser Ojaroudi Parchin will receive an honorarium of 800 CHF and will present his work entitled “Multi-Mode Smartphone Antenna Array for 5G Massive MIMO Applications” at the 14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2020 which will be held on 15-20 March, 2020 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

I would also like to acknowledge the other four candidates on our short list, namely, Dr. Alfonso González-Briones from the University of Salamanca, Spain; Dr. Ioannis Dassios from University College Dublin, Ireland; Dr. Luis Miguel González de Santos from Universidad de Vigo, Spain; and Dr. Spirkina Anastasia from Bonch-Bruevich Saint-Petersburg State University of Telecommunications, Russia for their impressive track records.

Together with the Applied System Innovation editorial team, I would like to congratulate Naser Ojaroudi Parchin for his achievements and thank the award committee for their excellent work in the hard task of selecting a winner from such a large number of excellent candidate profiles. We will continue to reward young scientists with the 2021 Travel Award and wish them further success in their careers.

Prof. Dr. Christos Douligeris
Editor-in-Chief, Applied System Innovation

Applied System Innovation 2019 Travel Award - Winner

Dear Colleagues, Fellows and Trainees:

As Associate Editor-in-Chief of Applied System Innovation (ASI), it is my immense pleasure to announce the winners of the 2019 Travel Award sponsored by ASI.

I take the opportunity to express my gratitude to all applicants for their interest in this competition as well as to our Selection Committees for their incredible involvement in this difficult task. We had many impressive dossiers for this award from all over the world and selecting ONE Follow among them was a very difficult task.

Dr. Hamidreza Mahyar a postdoctoral researcher at the Vienna University of Technology is the ASI 2019 Travel Award winner. Please join me to congratulate him for his achievement. He will receive 800 Swiss Francs towards the participation in the following international conference:

• He will present his work entitled “Generative Models for Semiconductor Wafer Maps” at the “33rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems” which will be held on 8-14 December 2019 in Vancouver, Canada

ASI is very proud to support young scientists and looks forward to receive more applications for 2020 Travel Award including those that could not be awarded this time.

Prof. Dr. Shoou-Jinn Chang
Associate Editor-in-Chief of ASI
President of TIKI
Department of Electrical Engineering
National Cheng Kung University