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Student Paper Contest 2024-1st Phase Selection Results

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The first phase of the Student Paper Contest 2024, the fifty-seventh edition of this prestigious and long-standing R8 student contest, has concluded. There were a total of 34, of which 32 were considered valid. 

The SPC 2024 international jury, comprising Prof. Gianfranco Chicco from Italy, Prof. Joao Carlos Ferreira from Portugal, Prof. Paul Micallef from Malta, and Prof. Vera Markovic from Serbia, has anonymously selected the following five papers (listed alphabetically by authors’ first names) for the Regional Oral Finals: 

TOP 5 PAPERS – SPC 2024 FINALISTS
(alphabetically by authors’ first names)

Name of the first author

 University Country Paper Title

Jan Popič

 University of Maribor Slovenia Using Neural Networks in the Search of Low Auto-correlation Binary Sequences

Loay Alfeqy

 Ain Shams University Egypt BEVSORT: Bird Eye View LiDAR Multi Object Tracking
Matea Marinova

Ss Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje

North Macedonia

 Accelerating Convergence in Split Learning for Time-Varying and Resource-Limited Environments

Matic Pokorn

 University of Ljubljana Slovenia

Smart Homes, Smarter Savings: Energy Trading with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Tim Bary

Université catholique de Louvain 

 Belgium Designing Pre-training Datasets from Unlabeled Data for EEG Classification with Transformers

 

SPC 2024 Oral Finals will take place as part of R8 flagship conference MELECON 2024, in Porto, Portugal, from June 25 to 27, 2024. The awards for students are $800, $500, and $200 for first, second, and third place, respectively, and the award for the winner’s Student Branch is $250.

The IEEE R8 Student Activities Committee extends congratulations to the authors of the top five papers and the IEEE Student Branches represented by the finalists! 

We express gratitude to all participants in SPC 2024! The majority of the submitted papers exhibit high quality, and we wholeheartedly encourage the authors to persist in their research work, as well as in the preparation and publication of technical papers.

Vera Markovic

IEEE R8 SAC

SPC Coordinator



Announcement of the Chapter Awards Winners

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We are proud to announce the Chapter Awards Winners:

 

TECHNICAL CHAPTERS:

 

* Large Chapter: IEEE Tunisia Section Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Chapter
* Small Chapter: IEEE Algeria Section Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Chapter

 

STUDENT BRANCH CHAPTERS (SBCs):

* Large SBC: National Institute of Applied Science and Technology (INSAT) IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Chapter, Tunisia
* Medium SBC: University of Manchester IEEE Power & Energy Society Chapter, UK & IR
* Small SBC: Al-Balqa Applied University IEEE Communications Society Chapter, Jordan

 

 

CONGRATULATIONS

Call for Student Awards 2020

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Larry K. Wilson Regional Student Activities Award

The purpose of this award is to recognize, annually, in each Region of the IEEE, the Student member most responsible for an extraordinary accomplishment associated with Student Activities. The value of a Student member who shows a pattern of dedication and ongoing service to a Student Branch/Student Branch Chapter is certainly recognized. The award is designed to reward a particular event, program, or product of IEEE Student Activities. It is sponsored by the IEEE Member and Geographic Activities (MGA) Board.

 

IEEE Regional Exemplary Student Branch Award

The purpose of this award is to provide public recognition of exemplary IEEE Student Branch operations.

 

IEEE Outstanding Branch Counselor and Branch Chapter Advisor Award

Aware of the unusual and dedicated efforts of Student Branch Counselors and Branch Chapter Advisors, the Regional and Technical Activities Boards sponsor a cash award to each of the approximately ten outstanding Counselors and Advisors around the world. Winners will be those individuals who, through their work as Counselors and Advisors, exemplify the Institute’s commitment to the educational, personal, professional, and technical development of students in IEEE related fields of interest.

 

The Darrel Chong Student Activity Award

The purpose of this recognition system serves to change the mindset of our student groups from being number-driven to becoming value-driven and to acknowledge exemplary student activities around the world. The goal is to improve the quality of activities and to foster knowledge sharing among students. Ultimately, the initiative is targeted at improving student-membership growth. This will encourage and motivate students to continue to innovate and implement meaningful ideas.

 

Global IEEE Student Branch Website Contest

The purpose of this award is to recognize, annually, the most outstanding student group responsible for the development of excellent IEEE Student Branch Website for its members.

 

Deadline:

1st of February, 2020

More information:

 

https://www.ieee.org/membership/students/branch-awards.html

Region 8 Student Enterprise Award, Region 8 IEEE Outstanding Branch Counselor and Advisor Award Recognition Program and finally the Darrel Chong Student Activity Award.

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We are proud to announce the further award recipients of Region 8 Student Enterprise Award, Region 8 IEEE Outstanding Branch Counselor and Advisor Award Recognition Program and finally the Darrel Chong Student Activity Award. Congratulations ! We will inform you how you will obtain the certificates.

Region 8 Student Enterprise Award
Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic – Offline Virtual Engineering Library
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki – Symbiosis Alzheimer’s Support
University of Ibadan – Design & implementation of a finger – pring based/password enabled access control unit for Halls of residence kitchenette
Ecole Nat’l D’Ingenierus De Sfax – Unique Note
Cairo University – Youth Development Camp
University of Osijek – IEEEMADC – Mobile Applications Development Contest
Nat’l Tec Univ of Ukraine –Kyiv Poly Inst – Intelligent Predictive Control System for Stepper Motors in Industrial Application & Educational Laboratories
American University of Beirut – AAHA: Arduino/Android Home Automation
University of Salento – A wireless power transmission system for biomedical applications
Region 8 IEEE Outstanding Branch Counselor and Advisor Award Recognition Program
Athanasios Kakarountas- University of Central Greece
Bernhard Jakoby- Johannes Kepler University Linz
Wladyslaw Grabinski- Ecole Polytech Federal Lausanne-Epf
Charalampos Patrikakis- Technological Education Institute of Piraeus SB
Chimezie Eguzo- Akanu Ibian Federal Polytechnic
Dr. Dharmasa- Caledonian College of Engineering
Dr. Geoff Merrett- University of Southampton
The Darrel Chong Student Activity Award – Region 8
Gold:
Univ of Patras (Greece)
Silver:
NTUA (Greece)
Univ Of Skopje (Republic of Macedonia)
National Engineering School of Sfax (ENIS)(Tunisia)
Bronze:
Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Cairo, (Egypt)
Arab Academy for Science and Technology – Alexandria (Egypt)
National Technical University of Athens (Greece)
American University of Beirut (Lebanon)
Ibra College of Technology (Oman)
IEEE Opole Student Branch (Poland)
University of Ljubljana Student Branch (Slovenia)
Technical University of Madrid (ETSIT-UPM) (Spain)
National Engineering School of Sfax (Tunisia)
YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IEEE (Turkey)

IEEE R8 Contest Winners

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Congratulations to all of the winners of our R8 contests. Keep up the good work!

 

IEEE Regional Exemplary Student Branch Award

American University of Beirut (Libanon)
Alexandria Student Branch (Egypt)
Arab Academy for Science & Technology (Egypt)
Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
Cairo University Student Branch (Egypt)
German Jordanian University (Jordan)
University of Central Greece (Greece)

Winner to be sent to MGA competition: GJU

 

 

IEEE Student Branch Website Contest

25 submissions, 3 winners:

1st place: Instituto Superior Técnico Student Branch (Portugal)
2nd place: TEI Piraeus Student Branch (Greece)
3rd place: Pretoria Student Branch (South-Africa)

IEEE Larry K. Wilson Regional Student Activities Award

Piotr Graca (Student Branch Opole, Poland)
Event:
3rd International Students Conference on Electrodynamics and
Mechatronics

 

 

IEEE Outstanding Branch Counselor and Advisor Award

The Region 8 submissions received a certificate:

Dr. Mohmed Khairy
Cairo University SB(Egypt)
Dr. Osama Abu Sharkh
Princess Sumaya University of Technology SB (Jordan)
Dr Mohammad Nazzal
German Jordanian University SB (Jordan)
Dr. Kakarountas Athanasios
University of Central Greece SB (Greece)