Dr. Maria Tzelepi was awarded the best 2020-2021 doctoral thesis in the area of Artificial Intelligence by the Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society. Dr. Tzelepi is a graduate of the Dept. of Informatics and completed her doctoral thesis, entitled “Deep Learning Techniques in Digital Media”, under the supervision of Professor Anastasios Tefas at the Dept. of Informatics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in 2021. Dr. Tzelepi continues her postdoctoral research at the Computational Intelligence and Deep Learning research group https://cidl.csd.auth.gr of the Dept. of Informatics. The award ceremony will take place on September 7-9, 2022, at the 12th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN2022) in Corfu.