The Award Committee:

• Anton Pyrkin - ITMO University
• Dimitri Peaucelle - LAAS-CNRS
• Emilia Fridman - Tel-Aviv University
• Lorenzo Fagiano - Politecnico di Milano
• Sergei Shavetov - ITMO University
• Stanislav Aranovskiy - CentraleSupélec

The five finalists of the ECC20 Best Student Paper are:

• Robin Brown - Exploiting Locality and Structure for Distributed Optimization in Multi-Agent Systems
• Paul Wijnbergen - Impulse controllability of switched differential-algebraic equations
• Ida-Louise Garmann Borlaug - The generalized super-twisting algorithm with adaptive gains
• Massimo Zambelli - Second-Order Sliding Modes Generation for Robust Disturbance String Stable Platoon Control
• Caroline Specht - Neighborhood estimation in sensitivity-based update rules for real-time optimal control

Eligibility. Requirements and Application Procedure

The ECC20 Best Student Paper award recognizes excellence in a paper presented at the European Control Conference whose primary author is a student at the time of submission. In order to be eligible, the candidate must:

• be the primary author of a paper accepted for presentation at ECC20;
• be a student (PhD, Master or Bachelor student) registered at an academic institution present the paper at the conference.

The nominations will be only possible after the final paper has been uploaded. To apply, nominators (normally nominee's coauthor of advisor) must upload to PaperCept the nomination application on a letterhead of the nominator. The letter should also include a declaration that the nominee was enrolled as a student at the date of the paper submission. Each nominator can apply for only one student. The nomination deadline is Monday, March 2, 2020.