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COAP 2022 Best Paper Prize

Dr. Alberto De Marchi was awarded the Best Paper Prize 2022 of the Journal of Computational Optimization and Applications for his paper “On a primal-dual Newton proximal method for convex quadratic programs”, published in COAP, Vol. 81, pp. 369–395.

Best of Session Award at DASC, Barcelona, 2023

Jeremy Bertoncini and his co-authors Adrian Dudek, Martin Russ, Matthias Gerdts, and Peter Stütz were awarded a Best of Session Award at the 42nd Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC, Barcelona, 2023) for the paper "Fixed-Wing UAV Path Planning and Collision Avoidance Using Nonlinear Model Predictive Control and Sensor-Based Cloud Detection" in the session UAS Path Planning.

Best of Session Award at DASC, San Diego, 2024

Sonali Rani and her co-author Matthias Gerdts were awarded a Best of Session Award at the 43rd Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC, San Diego, 2024) for the paper "Real-Time Imitation NMPC Using Least-Squares Optimization for Aircraft Trajectory Tracking" in the session AI and Machine Learning.

Best Conference Paper Award at IEEE VTC 2025

Mostafa Emam and his co-author Matthias Gerdts were awarded the Best Conference Paper Award at the 2025 IEEE 101st Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2025 in Oslo for the paper "Safety-oriented Dynamic Path Planning for Automated Vehicles". Many thanks to MORE@dtec.bw – Digitalization and Technology Research Center of the Bundeswehr. dtec.bw is funded by the European Union-NextGenerationEU.

Entrepreneurship Prize 2025 of the University of the Bundeswehr Munich for MUVOpt

Viktoriya Nikitina, Jeremy Bertoncini, Thomas Rottmann, and Matthias Gerdts received the Entrepreneurship Prize 2025 of the University of the Bundeswehr Munich for their start-up MUVOpt. What a great honor! Many thanks to founders@unibw and dtec.bw – Digitalization and Technology Research Center of the Bundeswehr for the support! dtec.bw is funded by the European Union-NextGenerationEU.