Student Paper Contest (SPC)
Student Paper Contest 2022: 1st Phase Results
This year there were 15 submissions in total, from which 13 submissions were accepted as valid. The submissions were from the following student branches:
- University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
- University of Maribor, Slovenia
- Ecole Mohammadia d’Ingenieurs, Morocco
- Politecnico di Torino, Italy
- Qatar University, Qatar
- University of Niš, Serbia
- Bogazici University, Turkey
- Moi University, Kenya
- Imperial College London, UK
- University of Technology and Applied Sciences-Ibra, Oman
- Onaizah Colleges, Saudi Arabia
- Linkoping University, Sweden
This year, the members of the SPC international jury are:
- Prof. Paul Micallef from Malta
- Prof. Giambattista Gruosso from Italy
- Prof. Mike Hinchey from Ireland
- Prof. Vera Markovic from Serbia
The jury has anonymously selected the following five papers (listed in alphabetical order) for the Regional Oral Finals:
- Emilija Ćojbašić, University of Niš, Serbia, “Machine learning as an aid to predicting clinical outcome after stroke”
- Kristjan Cuznar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, “Optimization of cold rolling process recipes based on historical data”
- Lorenzo Lagostina, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, “Design of Low-power Arithmetic Logic Circuits for 45 nm CMOS Technology”
- Matthieu Brabant, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, “Homomorphic Encryption for Privacy-Friendly Augmented Democracy”
- Zixuan Huang, Imperial College London, UK, “Beam-switching Circularly Polarized Antenna Array for Cold-chain Tracking RFID Applications”
Congratulations to the authors of the top five papers and branches where the finalists come from! Many thanks to all participants in the SPC 2022!
Student Paper Contest 2021: Final Results
The final part of the IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest (Oral Finals) was held within the frame of the TELSIKS 2021 conference, at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Nis, Serbia on 21 October 2021. The format of the Oral Finals was hybrid, and we managed in this difficult time of the pandemic to gather most of the finalists and jury members to participate in person. On the other hand, the hybrid form allowed those who could not travel to participate in the event online. The marks of the oral presentation in the final part (max 30) were added to the marks from the assessment of the written paper in the first part of the contest (max 70) to give the final result.
Members of the international jury who assessed the oral presentations were Prof. Paul Micallef from Malta, Prof. Mike Hinchey from Ireland, and Prof. Vera Markovic (also the SPC coordinator) from Serbia. In addition to them, Prof. Giambattista Gruosso from Italy also contributed to the work of the jury in the first part of the contest. Theodoros Chatzinikolaou, R8 Regional Student Representative attended the Oral Finals in person as well. The R8 SAC Chair, Simay Akar, participated in the event online.
Final Results
1ST PRIZE and award of $800
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Olivier Leblanc1, Loïc Tadrist2, Nicolas Moreau1, Boris Brun1, Tristan Gilet2, Benoît Hackens1
1 UC Louvain SB, 2 University of Liege, Belgium
“An affordable pedagogical setup for wave-particule duality and applications to chaotic stadium cavity” |
In addition, the student branch of the winner, UC Louvain SB, gets an award of $250.
2ND PRIZE and award of $500
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Eva Boneš, Matija Marolt
University of Ljubljana SB, Slovenia
“Automatic segmentation of the Golgi apparatus in volumetric data with approximate labels” |
3RD PRIZE and award of $200
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Yazan Alnajjar, Jinane Mounsef
University of Rochester Institute of Technology Dubai SB, UAE
“Next-Generation Network Intrusion Detection System (NG-NIDS)” |
4th and 5th Place
Damjan Denić, Predrag Aleksov, Igor Vučković
University of Niš SB, Serbia
“Object recognition with machine learning for people with visual impairment” |
Salma Moufid, Fatima Zahra Lachgar, Chaimae El Ainzroudi, Anass Ait Ben El Arbi
Ecole Mohammadia d’Ingenieurs SB, Morocco
“Improving Steganography using Image Compression JPEG” |
CONGRATULATIONS to the winners and two other finalists!
Oral Finals at TELSIKS 2021
This hybrid event provided an opportunity for students to get together and to feel the atmosphere of an international conference. In addition to the conference organizers, the local student branch (SB Nis, chaired by Milos Marjanovic) was co-hosting finalists and the R8 student representative during their stay. They got acquainted with the activities of the SB Nis and spent pleasant moments together with SB Nis representatives during their free time.
The social program included also a sightseeing tour and a nice conference dinner with live music. During the dinner, an award ceremony for SPC finalists was held.
From left to right: Damjan Denic, Igor Vuckovic, Vera Markovic, Predrag Aleksov, Eva Bones, Paul Micaleff, Olivier Leblanc, Milos Marjanovic, and Theodoros Chatzinikolaou
Students’ Impressions
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Student Paper Contest 2022: Call for Papers
GENERAL
The Student Paper Contest (SPC) is one of the main technical activities in Region 8. It was established in 1967 and since then it is an excellent occasion for personal leadership and involvement of student members in a prospective IEEE scientific/technical activity and to increase the visibility of the student branch. It also makes possible further promotion of IEEE among students. The success of the SPC relies heavily on the input from the Student Branch Officers, especially the Student Branch Counselor and the Student Branch Chair, but also on academic members especially those who form part of the local IEEE section.
Once every year, each IEEE R8 Student Branch (SB) may hold and organize a local Student Paper Contest under its own responsibility. The organization of a local SPC generally means that contest should be announced publicly in advance and that all submitted papers are to be locally reviewed by qualified specialists. Additionally, all R8/Sections/Chapters IEEE Conferences, having student papers sessions included in their programs, could and should also be used to get additional proposals for SPC. As long as a SB is formally supporting and accepting any type of a student papers contest activity, it is in line with the existing SPC rules. Student Branch Counselors should be fully involved in all local SPC activities, as well as all other local IEEE officers (Section Chairs, Chapter Chairs, student activities officers, members of executive committees…).
The winner(s) of each local Student Branch Contest may compete for the Region 8 Contest. A Student Branch may submit one paper per every 100 Student Branch members or part thereof, with a maximum of three papers per SB. At the same time, especially in small branches where the managing of a local contest is difficult, the IEEE section officers can encourage students to submit their work as a paper to the SPC. This is a good exercise for students, especially those who intend to continue to a doctorate.
WHO COULD PARTICIPATE
IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest is for IEEE R8 student members or graduate student members who have not yet started their PhD. Only IEEE R8 student members could be authors of the IEEE R8 SPC papers. Since the five finalist papers are being included in the conference proceedings as well as in IEEE Xplore Library, the rules will now allow that the name of the supervisor/mentor may be added, as an author, to the final version of the paper. This does not change in any way the basic rule that the submitted paper is the work of the student. Each student author must be a member of an IEEE Student Branch at the time of the original submission of the paper to the Branch Contest, and a member (student or not) of the IEEE at the time of the R8 Oral Finals presentation. The work presented has to be completed before the student receives the engineering degree that entitles her/him to start preparing a doctoral thesis. The submission of the paper to the SPC must be completed within 12 months after graduation. A doctoral thesis is not considered. Published work is excluded from the Contest.
CHARACTER OF THE PAPER
Papers should cover technical and engineering aspects of a subject reasonably within or related to the areas with which the IEEE is concerned with. The work need not be original in engineering or scientific content, but should be original in treatment and concise in coverage of the author’s contribution to the subject.
PAPER REVIEW, JURY, FINALISTS, ORAL FINALS AND PRIZES
A first evaluation phase (paper review) will be carried out by four jury members including the SPC Coordinator. The jury members may also use the experts in the pertinent subject area as reviewers. They will grade the written papers sent by Student Branches to the Regional contest without knowledge of the identity of the authors and of their school. Based on this evaluation, the SPC Coordinator will decide which five papers will be accepted for presentation at the Regional Oral Finals. All five finalists will be invited and financially supported to present their papers at the IEEE R8 flagship conference MELECON 2022, June 14-16, Palermo, Italy. Papers presented at the Oral Finals will be published in the Conference Proceedings and included in IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The Jury members will grade the oral presentations and three best finalists will get prizes ($800, $500, and $200 respectively). The student branch of the student who wins first prize also gets as an award of $250.
DEADLINE AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The deadline to send full papers to IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest 2022 is December 1, 2021 December 15, 2021. Please send papers by email to r8sac@ieee.org.