The Marconi Junior Prize 2010 has been awarded to the Engineer Francesco Lombardo for his thesis “Precoding Techniques for MIMO transmission in LTE” submitted to the Department of Engineering of the Alma Mater Studiorum Bologna University.

Special mention to Diana Fontanella, second in ranking, for her thesis "Cooperative localization based on time of arrival: Fundamental limits and algorithms" submitted to the Department of Engineering of the Milan Politecnico.

The other finalists were: Dario Zeolla "Analysis of bidirectional transmission feasibility in fibre optic plastic"; Marco Zamarin "A Multi-View Image and Video Coding Scheme based on View Warping and 3D-DCT"; Carlo Dal Mutto "3D reconstruction by means of stereo data fusion and ToF"; Cristina La Palombara "Revenue control in echo cancellation".

Pontecchio, February 2011