National and International awards and recognitions

• 2011 Cesare has been awarded Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (August 2011).
  
  
• 2011 "Oustanding service award" as Program co-Chair of the IEEE-INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, San Jose' (USA)
  
  
• 2006 IEEE Fellow, “for contributions to robustness and application-level synthesis of embedded information processing systems”

• 2003 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Young Engineer Award for his leadership in the fields of digital architectural design and neural networks for industrial applications