The Caianiello’s Best PhD Thesis Award is devoted to young scholars who have completed their PhD thesis within three-calendar years preceding the WIRN current meeting.

To be eligible for the competition the topic of the thesis must be among those presented in the current annual WIRN’s call for paper (Wirn 2023 for this call).

The application should include:

1. A PDF file of the thesis
2. An extended abstract
3. List of relevant publications associated to the thesis
4. Candidate’s CV

The nomination documents should be submitted in one ARCHIVE trough WETRANSFER to the PhD committee:

1. Anna Esposito (iiass.annaesp@tin.it)
2. Laura Giarré (laura.giarre@unimore.it)
3. Francesco Carlo Morabito (morabito@unirc.it)
4. Eros Pasero (eros.pasero@polito.it)

For the current award, the eligible theses should have been defended between the 7^th June 2020 and the 31^st of May 2023.

The deadline for the submissions is extended to May 8, 2023.

The 1^st prize will be presented at the WIRN conference meeting and is accompanied by:

1. a compensation of 500 Euros offered by the IEEE Italian Chapter on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (https://giarre.wordpress.com/2023/02/03/lecture-series/, https://webinabox.vtools.ieee.org/wibp_home/index/CH08444)
2. a free registration at WIRN meeting equivalent to 200 Euro including the social dinner

The 2^nd prize will be presented at the WIRN conference meeting and is accompanied by:

1. a free registration at WIRN meeting equivalent to a compensation of 200 Euros including the WIRN 2023 social dinner