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Last week, the Center for Project-Based Learning at D-ITET (PBL) won two awards at challenging conferences. Andrea Ronco, Philipp Schilk and Michele Magno won the best demo award at the 9^th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI). The other prize was the best paper award at the 75^th IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I²MTC) 2024.

The Digital Circuits and Systems Group, lead by Prof. Luca Benini, received the Best Paper Award at the tinyML Research Symposium 2024. The paper, titled "Boosting Keyword Spotting through On-Device Learnable User Speech Characteristics", was co-authored by Cristian Cioflan and Lukas Cavigelli.

The Center for Project-Based Learning D-ITET (PBL) is among the three finalists for the KITE Award 2024. The KITE Award honors particularly convincing teaching innovations and will be presented as part of the Innovation in Learning and Teaching Fair on 15 May.