Best Performer Awards, Roland Mittermeir Award, and Doctoral Thesis Award of the Faculty of Technical Sciences 2024/25

On 5 November, the Best Performer Awards 2024/25, the Roland Mittermeir Prize 2024 and, for the first time, the Dissertation Prize 2024/25 were presented at the University meets Industry: Talents for Carinthia event.

Through the Best Performer Awards, the University of Klagenfurt recognises the most outstanding students in technical fields of study. The selection was based on ECTS credits and overall grades achieved during the 2024/25 academic year. Each winner receives prize money of €500, jointly funded by the Förderverein der Technischen Fakultät (FTF) and the Faculty of Technical Sciences.
The Roland Mittermeir Award is presented annually. Graduates fom all technical disciplines may submit their Master’s theses for consideration, provided they have been graded as ‘excellent’. The Roland Mittermeir Award carries a value of €1,500. Both awards are jointly sponsored by the Faculty of Technical Sciences and the FTF and were presented by Michael Kollienz (Raiffeisenbank and Chair of the FTF) and Bernhard Rinner, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Technical Sciences.
A notable innovation this year was the introduction of the Doctoral Thesis Award, endowed with € 2,000, which recognises outstanding doctoral dissertations.
Congratulations to Maik Fichtenkamm, recipient of the Roland Mittermeir Award for his Master’s thesis ‘Towards a Failure Analysis Chatbot with Retrieval-Augmented Generation’. The newly introduced doctoral thesis award was conferred upon Nunzio Alexandro Letizia for his doctoral thesis ‘Deep Learning Models for Physical Layer Communications’, completed at the Institute for Networked and Embedded Systems under the supervision of Andrea Tonello and Bernhard Rinner.
 
Congratulations to the winners of the Best Performer Awards 2024/25:
 
Degree Programme Informatics:

  • David Alexander Jamnig (712 Points)

Degree Programme Robotics and Artificial Intelligence:

  • Nadezhda Varzonova (576 Points)

Degree Programme Technical Mathematics :

  • Raphael Hermann Heuchl (516 Points)

Degree Programme Information Management:

  • Sandro Moser (482 Points)

Degree Programme Artificial Intelligence & Cybersecurity:

  • Veronika Bianca Semmelrock (476 Points)

Degree Programme Game Studies and Engineering:

  • Eileen Mary Carette (470 Points)

Degree Programme Game Studies and Engineering:

  • Omar Mohamed Hosny Sayed Elghandour (404 Points)

Teacher Training Programme Master of Education – Informatics:

  • Daniel Thomas Dobernik (224 Points)

Teacher Training Programme Bachelor of Education – Mathematics:

  • Sarah Bachmann (224 Points)

Preisträger des Roland-Mittermeir-Preises Maik Fichtenkamm mit Michael Kollienz und Bernhard Rinner | Foto: Helge Bauer
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