We are pleased to announce that the Italian Chapter of the European Association of Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) awarded to Giorgio Vinciguerra the prize for the best PhD Thesis in Theoretical Computer Science. The title of the thesis is “Learning-based compressed data structures” and revisits two fundamental problems in data structure design: predecessor search and rank/select primitives within a novel learning-based framework. Our best wishes to Giorgio for his brilliant research future, whose start is indeed very amazing!