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Bruno Santos received the TRA VISIONS 2022 Senior Researcher Award Airborne earlier this month at the TRA Conference in Lisbon. Bruno’s work as the coordinator of the EC Horizon 2020 ReMap project was perhaps the major contribution to his award.

This summer two of our PhD students at ATO have received prizes in the Anna Valicek student paper competition at the Annual Symposium of AGIFORS (the Airline Group of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies) for the work they performed on airport operations.

PhD candidates Juseong Lee and Ingeborg de Pater, and their supervisor Dr. Mihaela Mitici have won the Best Paper Award (2nd Prize) at the 7th European Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society 2022 (PHM Europe).

PhD candidate Juseong Lee and his supervisor Dr. Mihaela Mitici have won the First Prize Thomas L. Fagan, Jr., Student Paper Award at RAMS 2021.

The ATO group, together with colleagues from the ReMAP project, is organising the 1st International Conference for Condition-base Maintenance in Aerospace (https://cbmacademy.eu/). The conference will be held in Delft, The Netherlands, 24-25 May 2022.

On March 28, an AI & Aviation Track in the Applied Machine Learning Days (AMLD) EPFL 2022 organized by our colleague Lishuai Li (Assistant Professor, TU Delft), together with Manuel Renold (Associate Professor, Zurich University of Applied Sciences), and Chrysanthi Tsimitri (Team lead Data Insights & Analytics, SWISS International Air Lines), will take place at the Swiss Tech Convention Center on EPFL campus.

The work from Mahdi Noorafza (ATO) and Pratik R. (ANCE) was discussed in the recent blog from the European Research project ClimOP. In their work, the two PhD candidates are investigating the potential of combining strategic network planning and optimised climate trajectories in mitigating aviation’s climate impact from both CO2 and non-CO2 effects.

On the 27th of January (15.00-16.00) a RHIA Talks is organized with a focus on Flight Delay Predictions.

The paper and demo “Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation of Airport Terminal Operations Under COVID-19-Related Restrictions” by Gregory Sanders, Sahand Mohammadi Ziabari, Adin Mekić, and Alexei Sharpanskykh was awarded IBM Best demo paper award at 19th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-agent Systems.

Monday 13 December 2021 14.00-15.00