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Student Paper Contest 2020 Final Result

 in Hall of Fame / SPC 2020

 

This year there were 13 valid papers submitted by the closing date of December 15, 2019. The papers were seen by four jury members:

 

  • Prof Mustapha Benjallali from Morocco
  • Professor Vera Markovic  from Serbia
  • Professor Giambattista Gruosso from Italy
  • Professor Paul Micallef from Malta who is also the SPC Co-ordinator

 

The jury members are rotated over a period of time depending on where Melecon and Eurocon are held. The participants were from the following countries:

Belgium, Iran, Ireland, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Qatar, Serbia, Slovenia, and Spain.

The five papers, chosen by the jury members, that will be presented at Melecon 2020 in Palermo, Italy are:

 

  • Matthias Swiggers, KU Leuven, Belgium, ” A Four-Quadrant Switched Capacitor DC-DC Convertor Enabling Power-Efficient Lab-Grade Potentiostats.”
  • Maxim Van den Abeele, KU Leuven, Belgium, ” Object-Centric Street Scene Synthesis with Generative Aversarial Networks.”
  • Mark Cauchi, University of Malta, Malta, “ An Improved Variable Neighbourhood Search Algorithm for Selective Dial-a-Ride Problem.“
  • Najla Al-Thani, Alreem Albuainain, Fatima Alnaimi, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar,  “Drones for Sheep Livestock Monitoring.“
  • Kristjan Stopar, University of Maribor, Slovenia, “Device for visual kinesthetic navigation of the blind and visually impaired.“

 

According to the SPC rules, where papers have multiple authors, IEEER8  supports only one author of each paper accepted by the Jury for oral presentation.

 

The  student branches that submitted a paper to  SPC2020 are

 

  • University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Universite’ Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
  • University of  Niš, Serbia
  • Qatar University, Qatar
  • University of Maribor, Slovenia
  • K.N.Toosli University of Technology, Iran
  • Beirut Arab University, Lebanon
  • University of Malta, Malta
  • ENSIAS Rabat, Morocco
  • National University of Galway, Ireland
  • KU Leuven (2), Belgium

 

 

Paul Micallef

SPC Coordinator

IEEE R8 Student Paper Contest 2020 FINALISTS

 in SPC 2020

The five finalists for this years SPC2020 gave a presentation on-line on June 16 within the MELECON 2020  Palermo virtual conference.

IEEE Region 8 awards prize money of $800, $500 and $200 for the best three papers respectively. There is also a prize of $250 as the “Dick Poortvliet Award” for the Student Branch of the first prize student.

Following the five presentations, that were very well prepared and presented and in general well answered, the jury members came to a conclusion with the following results.

FIRST PRIZE         Kristjan Stopar, University of Maribor, Slovenia, “Device for visual kinesthetic navigation of the blind and visually impaired.”

 

SECOND PRIZE   Matthias Swiggers, KU Leuven, Belgium, ” A Four-Quadrant Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Convertor Enabling Power-Efficient Lab-Grade Potentiostats.”

 

THIRD PRIZE       Mark Cauchi, University of Malta, Malta, “ An Improved Variable Neighbourhood Search Algorithm for Selective Dial-a-Ride Problem.”

 

The other two finalists were

Maxim Van den Abeele, KU Leuven, Belgium, ” Object-Centric Street Scene Synthesis with Generative Adversarial Networks.”

 

Najla Al-Thani, Alreem Albuainain, Fatima Alnaimi, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar,  “Drones for Sheep Livestock Monitoring.”

 

The papers and the oral presentations were judged by four jury members

Prof Mustapha Benjillali from INPT, Morocco

Professor Vera Markovic  from University of Nis, Serbia

Professor Giambattista Gruosso from Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Professor Paul Micallef from University of Malta, Malta who is also the SPC Co-ordinator