Monthly Archives: February 2016

Previous R8 WIE Committees

 in R8 WIE Committees

Thanks for all the dedicated volunteers who, for years, were serving Women Engineers in IEEE Region 8. Previous Committees include:

 

2023

  • Wafa BenHmida (UK&Ireland), Chair
  • Maria-Alexandra Paun (Switzerland), Past Chair
  • Sally Musonye (Kenya), Member
  • Hazar Oklah (Jordan), Member
  • Ana Margarida Trigo (Portugal), Member
  • Amany Alshawi (Saudi Arabia), Corresponding Member
  • Ala Chalghaf (Tunisia), Corresponding Member
  • Jani Dugonik (Slovenia), Corresponding Member
  • Youmna El Bitar (Germany), Corresponding Member
  • Larissa Abi Nakhle (Lebanon), Corresponding Member
  • Ambra Sannino (Sweden), Corresponding Member
  • Roua Touihri (France), Corresponding Member

2019

  • Ana Cigarán Romero (Germany), Chair
  • Youmna El Bitar (Lebanon), Past Chair
  • Maria-Alexandra Paun (Switzerland), Member
  • Hzar Oqlah (Jordan), Member
  • Ilhem Kallel (Tunisia), Member
  • Philippa Makobore (Uganda), Member
  • Almedin Kavas (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Corresponding Member
  • Wafa Ben Hmida (Tunisia), Corresponding Member

2016

  • Taqua Khairy (Cypurs), Coordinator
  • Farzaneh Abdollahi (Iran)
  • Messaouda Azzouzi (Algeria)
  • Joyce Mwangama (South Africa)

2015

  • Simay Akar (Turkey), Coordinator
  • Reem Turky (Saudi Arabia West)
  • Farzaneh Abdollahi (Iran)
  • Messaouda Azzouzi (Algeria)
  • Safa Ismail (Egypt)
  • Joyce Mwangama (South Africa)

2013-2014

  • Joyce Mwangama (South Africa), Coordinator
  • Reem Turky (Saudi Arabia West)
  • Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier (France)

Top 3 IEEEXtremers are from R8!

 in Old Contests

This year’s IEEE Xtreme 2015 Programming Competition results are tremendous for IEEE Region 8. From 2468 teams, top three places held by the teams from R8.
“Team Name” from Iran, “EPFL1” from Switzerland and “Powerhouse” from Romania successfully top three respectively, and their background shows us these achievements are not just luck.

“Team Name” members; Mohammad Ostadmohammadi, Saeed Ilchi Ghazaan and Majid Farhadi are quite successful students. Saeed is international gold and national silver medal winner and Majid is national gold and silver winner in Computer Olympiads. Simply, they were already prepared for competition.

“EPFL1” members Jakub Tarnawski, Andrii Maksai and Alfonso Peterssen are also promising in their student life. Jakub ( originally from Poland ) is PhD student and his research area is graph algorithms. Andrii (originally from Ukraine) is a PhD candidate in Computer Vision Lab. Alfonso (originally from Cuba ) is an undergraduate student. About them is two things common, enthusiasm for programming for long years and they are not originally swiss. All of them coding as a hobby and when competition time comes, they were already prepared too.

“Powerhouse” members Alexandru Nechifor, Dan-Constantin Spătărel and Mihai-Dan Gheorghe are can be considered as successful like the other team members above. Alexandru is received IRES-8 scholarship from EU and currently funded with 3 month PhD exchange between the University of Manchester in UK and Tsinghua University in China. Dan-Constantin is a PhD student in Computer Science in Bucharest university and among that he is a medal hunter in several international olympiads. Mihai Dan is undergraduate student, but a vital member of the team. He is also a winner of bronze medal in an international olympiad.

As Student Activities Committee (SAC), we’re Xtremely happy to see those teams achievements and congratulate them with our heart.

Iranian Team

Iranian Team ( 1st place)

Jakub Tarnavski

Swiss team ( 2nd place)

Alfonso Peterssen-Swiss team

Swiss team ( 2nd place)

andrii maksai

Swiss team (2nd place)

Romania 1

Romanian team (3rd place)

STUDENT PAPER CONTEST RESULTS 2016

 in SPC 2016

The results of this year’s Student paper Contest are out. The five chosen finalists that will be presenting their papers at the Melecon 2016 conference, Limassol Cyprus on April 18, have been chosen by a five member jury.

These are :

Serban Mihalache, Florin-Silviu Dumitru, Current-Mode Capacitance Multiplier with Reduced Parasitic Elements, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania

Marko Bizjak, The segmentation of a point cloud using locally fitted surfaces, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

Laszlo Pinter, Statistical Analysis of the Electric Vehicle Chargers’ Impacts on the Low-voltage Distribution System, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

A.J. van den Biggelaar,  A Fast, Flexible and Accurate Algorithm for Shaping the 3D Radiation Pattern of an AAS, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Stefan Wunsch, Reducing the Processing Loss of Windowed Transforms Using Linear Discriminant Analysis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

 

While congratulating the authors of the five chosen papers, SAC thanks all participants in the SPC contest. There  were many other valid contributions but the jury members have to make a decision on which are the best from among all the papers presented.

International Conference on the Science of Electrical Engineering

 in News

The IEEE Israel Section invites paper submission to the international conference on the science of electrical engineering (ICSEE) to be held in Nov. 16 – 18 in the city of Eilat, at the beautiful northern coast of the Red Sea. The conference will cover a multiplicity of topics in a number of parallel sessions, in combination with joint sessions and activities designed to foster scientific interaction and synergy between various disciplines. Practitioners and scientists are invited to use this opportunity for exchanging information on the latest developments.

Conference highlights

  • An invited full day symposium on Information Theory
  • An invited full day symposium on Speech and Audio Processing
  • Best student paper competition

In 2016 the IEEE Israel Section anticipates a wide participation of professionals from Israel and abroad.

Convention Topics

  • Systems and Control
  • Communication and Information theory
  • Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision
  • Machine Intelligence
  • Microwaves, Antennas & EMC
  • Electronic Devices
  • High speed electronics
  • Power Electronics, Power Engineering & Smart Grids
  • Optical devices and systems

Submission of Paper Draft

Guidelines for full paper draft preparation and notification on the opening of the submission website will be provided in future correspondence.

 

Important Dates

Abstracts submission: June 15, 2016

Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2016

Submission of camera ready papers: September 30, 2016

 

Conference Secretariat

Tel: Tamar: +972-3-5767716, Email: [email protected]

General Chair

Mark Shtaif

Technical Program Chair

Uri Erez

Steering Committee

Adi Arye, Tel Aviv University

Joseph Kost, Ben Gurion University

Ephraim Zehavi, Bar Ilan University

Ariel Orda, Technion

Yair Weiss, The Hebrew University

Yossi Rosenwaks, Tel Aviv University

 

Organizing Committee

Mark Shtaif, Tel Aviv University

Israel Cohen, Technion

Sharon Ganot, Bar Ilan University

Anelia Somekh Baruch, Bar Ilan University

Yuval Beck, Holon Institute of Technology

Liran Katzir, Tel Aviv University

 

Technical Program Committee

Ady Arie, Tel Aviv University

Shmuel Auster, Elta Systems

Jacob Baal-Schem

Yuval Beck, Holon Institute of Technology

Irad Ben-gal, Tel Aviv University

Itai Dabran, Technion

Sharon Gannot, Bar Ilan University

Jacob Gavan

Gady Golan, Hermellin College

Leah Goldin, Shenkar College

Hugo Guterman, Ben Gurion University

Yuval Kochman, The Hebrew University

Steli Loznen

Reuven Meidan

Yael Nemirovsky, Techion

Yaakov Oshman, Technion

Sigal Portnoy, Tel Aviv University

Doron Shmilovitz, Tel Aviv University

Solon Spiegel, Bar Ilan university

Arie Yeredor, Tel Aviv University

Ezra Zeheb, Technion

IEEE EmergiTech 2016 Conference

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Introduction

The 2016 IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Innovative Business Practices for the Transformation of Societies (IEEE EmergiTech 2016) is the new flagship Conference of the IEEE Mauritius Subsection. The first edition of EmergiTech is organised jointly with the University of Technology, Mauritius (UTM) and aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum where industry, Government and academia will meet to discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns regarding the evolution of technology and its impact on societies and businesses. The program will also feature a rich set of workshops and tutorials as well as a featured exhibition space to provide our attendees with a distinctive conference experience. The conference therefore welcomes participants from the region and all over the world to the beautiful Island of Mauritius for an exciting six-day event. An exclusive Conference Gala Dinner bathed in the local folklore will be proposed to our attendees as well as a half-day tour to reveal the exotic beauty of the Island.

Scope

IEEE EmergiTech 2016 focuses on emerging technologies covering the following themes:

  • Smart Cities and Internet of Things (IoTs)
  • Innovative Technologies for Smart Enterprises Growth
  • Sustainable Development, Energy Harvesting and Storage
  • Technology based Educational Systems
  • Web Technologies,  Cloud Computing and Big Data Analytics
  • Information Security and Cyber Forensics
  • Softwarization and Next Generation of Networking Technologies
  • Robotics and Cognitive Technologies
  • Bio-Intelligence and Health Technologies
  • Social Networks and Behavioral Science

Important Dates

Paper & Tutorial/Workshop Proposal Submission: 29 February 2016
Notification of Acceptance: 21 March 2016
Camera-Ready Paper: 04 April 2016
Final 1-Page Tutorial/Workshop Abstract: 04 April 2016 .

Publication

All submitted papers will be double-blind peer reviewed by at least two reviewers. Accepted and presented papers as well as abstracts of tutorials/workshops will be published in IEEE Emergitech 2016 Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore.

IEEE EmergiTech 2016 will award both best paper and best student paper. More details will be subsequently made available on the website.

Conference Guidelines

Conference paper guidelines can be accessed at
http://www.emergitech2016.org/paper-submission-guidelines/

Tutorial/Workshop guidelines can be accessed at http://www.emergitech2016.org/tutorial-workshop-submission-guidelines/

For further information please visit http://www.emergitech2016.org/.

Additional queries can be addressed to: [email protected]