Professional Honors


  1. IBM Research Division Technical Group Award for Research Contributions to IBM Rational Software Analyzer (RSAR). IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, August 2008.
  2. IBM Research Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics. IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, July 2008 (3 papers selected out of 130 submissions).
  3. IBM Bravo Award from IBM Rational for Research and Development Contributions to IBM Rational Software Analyzer (RSAR). IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, July 2008.
  4. IBM Outstanding Innovation Award for Research Contributions to Java Security. IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, March 2008.
  5. The Italian Ministry of University and Research, the National Conference of the Italian Presidents of Faculties of Sciences and Technologies, and Confindustria, Italy's leading organization representing all the Italian manufacturing and service companies, present Marco Pistoia as one of the 70 most successful Italian mathematicians who graduated from an Italian university between the years 1980 and 2000. Genoa, Italy, September 2007.
  6. ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award for conference paper Static Specification Mining Using Automata-Based Abstractions, published in Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT 2007 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2007), London, United Kingdom, July 2007. ACM Press.
  7. IBM Research Division Award for Research Contributions to Static Specification Mining Using Automata-Based Abstractions. IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, July 2007.
  8. IBM Research Division Award for Research Contributions to Static Analysis Based Error Reduction (SABER). IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, April 2004.
  9. Business Methods Special Patent Incentive Award for the high technical quality of invention YOR9-2000-0599-US1, Transparent Digital Rights Management for Extendible Content Viewers. IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, May 2001.
  10. First Publication Award for Enterprise Java in an E-business Environment, published on the IBM Systems Journal. IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, March 2001.
  11. First Patent Application Invention Achievement Award for invention YOR9-2000-0599-US1, Transparent Digital Rights Management for Extendible Content Viewers, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, October 2000.
  12. IBM Stock Option Award. IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, July 1999.
  13. IBM BestFest Award. Received a special recognition from IBM’s Vice President, John W. Thompson. Miami, FL, March 1999.
  14. IBM International Technical Support Organization (ITSO) Publication Excellence Award for authoring book Internet Security in the Network Computing Framework.
  15. IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for Research Contributions to Enhanced Digital Video Broadcasting (EDVB). IBM Network Computing Research Center, Cagliari, Italy, December 1996.
  16. Awarded an IBM Italy Foundation Fellowship as one of the top 25 Italian university graduate students of 1995. Todi (PG), Italy, August 1995.
  17. Selected as the top student in the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy for European Community's Erasums Fellowship Award, 1991.

Furthermore, Marco Pistoia has received:
  • Twenty-one IBM Invention Achievement Awards
  • Five IBM Invention Plateaus
  • Six IBM Patent-Issue Awards