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Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Jesús Ruiz-Santaquiteria Alegre
University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Jiakang Zheng
Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero
Chairman
Politecnico di Torino
Prof. Dr. Olivier Sename
GRENOBLE INP / GIPSA-lab
Dr. Felipe Jimenez
Technical University of Madrid
Prof. Dr. James Lam
University of Hong Kong
Dr. Xiongfeng Ma
Tsinghua Unviersity
Dr. Jinjun Feng
Beijing Vacuum Electronics Research Institute
Prof. Manuel Arrebola
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Dr. Yuankai Qi
Macquarie University
Prof. Dr. Bo Ai
Beijing Jiaotong Uviversity
Winner
Haotong Qin
Beihang University, China
Riccardo Mandrioli
University of Bologna, Italy
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero
Chairman
Politecnico di Torino
Prof. Dr. George A Tsihrintzis
University of Piraeus
Prof. Francisco Falcone
UPNA // ISC // TEC Monterrey
Dr. Xiongfeng Ma
Tsinghua Unviersity
Prof. Dr. Giulio Antonini
University of L´Aquila
Winner
Gabriele Patrizi
University of Florence, Italy
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero
Chairman
Politecnico di Torino
Prof. Ke Guan
Beijing Jiaotong University
Dr. Joao Soares
GECAD, Polytechnic of Porto
Prof. Dr. Valeri Mladenov
Technical University of Sofia
Dr. Stefanos Kollias
Prof. Amir H Gandomi
Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo NSW 2007, Australia
Prof. Dr. George A Tsihrintzis
University of Piraeus
Dr. Martin Reisslein
Winner
Felix Utama Kosasih
University of Cambridge, UK
Award Committee
Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero
Chairman
Politecnico di Torino
Prof. Leonardo Pantoli
University of L'Aquila
Prof. Dr. Olivier Sename
GRENOBLE INP / GIPSA-lab
Prof. Rashid Mehmood
King Abdulaziz University
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