Rossana Castaldo, actual member of the Applied Biomedical Signal Processing and Intelligent eHealth Lab at the University of Warwick, was awardwd a merit award for being selected among the best 10 papers presented at the Young Investigator Competition at the EMBEC’17 & NBC’17 conference held in Tampere, Finland this June. Rossana was shortlisted among 700 papers submitted, for her manuscript titled “To What Extent Can We Shorten HRV Analysis in Wearable Sensing? A Case Study on Mental Stress Detection”.