Hall of Fame

The 2001 IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest received 14 papers from 13 Student Branches in 10 countries:

•     Austria, Graz University of Technology
•     Greece, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
•     Germany, University of Hannover
•     Iran, Isfahan University of Technology
•     Iran, University of Tehran (2)
•     Israel, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
•     Malta, University of Malta
•     Netherlands, Eindhoven University of Technology
•     Netherlands, Twente University of Technology
•     Nigeria, Federal University of Technology Owerri
•     Slovenia, University of Ljubljana
•     Slovenia, University of Maribor
•     Switzerland, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich

The oral finals took place in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, on 6 July 2001, as part of EUROCON 2001 (5-7 July 2001).

The three winners were:

1. Johann Groszschaedl (Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria) Area-efficient VLSI implementation of arithmetic operations in the binary finite field GF(2^m)
2. Arjan Meijerink (University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands) Performance improvement of a generalized coherence multiplexing system
3. Matjaz Divjak, Ales Holobar, and Iztok Prelog (University of Maribor, Slovenia) VIDERO – Virtual delivery room

The other three papers selected for the oral finals were:

• Nikos Batsios (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) A CDMA/PRMA protocol for LEO constellations
• Rita Mayer-Sommer (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland) Smartly analyzing the simplicity and power of simple power analysis on smartcards
• Claire M. Seguna (University of Malta) The design, construction and testing of a dexterous robotic end effector

The five jury members were:

•     Martin Bastiaans, Eindhoven, Netherlands, IEEE R8 SPC coordinator.
•     Norbert Fristacky, Bratislava, Slovakia
•     Jordan Kolev, Varna, Bulgaria
•     Javier Macías-Guarasa, Madrid, Spain
•     Kurt Richter, Graz, Austria

The 2000 IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest received 20 papers from 11 Student Branches in 8 countries:

•     Egypt, Cairo
•     Germany, Bochum
•     Iran, Tehran (3)
•     Iran, Tehran – Amir Kabir (3)
•     Iran, Tehran – Sharif (3)
•     Israel, Haifa
•     Netherlands, Eindhoven (3)
•     Slovenia, Ljubljana
•     Slovenia, Maribor
•     South-Africa, Pretoria (2)
•     Spain, Madrid

The oral finals took place in Limassol, Cyprus, on 30 May 2000, as part of MELECON 2000, the 10th Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (29-31 May 2000).

The three winners were:

1. Ales Bardorfer (Ljubljana, Slovenia) Connecting haptic interface with a robot
2. Allert van Zelst (Eindhoven, Netherlands) Extending the capacity of wireless LANs using space division multiplexing combined with OFDM
3. Christian Gunselmann (Bochum, Germany) A contribution to the modeling of short channel MOSFETs for HF circuit simulations

The other three papers selected for the oral finals were:

• Ahmed Nabil Mohamed Al-Zeftawi, Khaled Mahmoud Abd El-Fattah, Hyman Nabil Hussien Shanan, Tarek Salah Eddeen Mohammad Kamel (Cairo, Egypt) CMOS mixed digital/analog reconfigurable neural network with Gaussian synapses
• Alfons W. Bogalecki (Pretoria, South-Africa) Design of a waveguide-based opto-electronic integrated circuit in silicon CMOS technology
• Nader Motee (Tehran – Sharif, Iran) Design parameters selection in the multimodel adaptive control

The five jury members were:

•     Martin Bastiaans, Eindhoven, Netherlands, IEEE R8 SPC coordinator.
•     Jordan Kolev, Varna, Bulgaria
•     Javier Macías-Guarasa, Madrid, Spain
•     Gregory Malliotis, Cyprus
•     Kurt Richter, Graz, Austria

The 1999 IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest received 21 papers from 16 StudentBranches in 9 countries:

•     Belgium, University of Ghent
•     Belgium, University of Liège
•     Germany, Ruhr-University Bochum (2)
•     Germany, University of Hannover
•     Germany, University of Karlsruhe
•     Iran, Sharif University of Technology (2)
•     Iran, University of Tehran
•     Italy, University of Parma
•     Macedonia, University of Sts. Cyril and Methodius
•     Netherlands, Delft University of Technology (2)
•     Netherlands, Eindhoven University of Technology (3)
•     Slovenia, University of Ljubljana
•     Slovenia, University of Maribor
•     Switzerland, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich
•     Turkey, Bogazici University
•     Turkey, Middle East Technical University Ankara

The oral finals were held in Bled, Slovenia, on 13 July 1999, as part of ISIE’99, the International Symposium on Industrial Electronics.

The three winners were:

1. Vili Podgorelec (Maribor University, Slovenia) Self-adapting evolutionary decision support model
2. Dimitri Vandeville (Ghent University, Belgium) Non linear resampling for edge-preserving moiré suppression
3. Katrin Schroeder (Bochum University, Germany) Synthetic aperture-based reconstruction of intravascular ultrasound images in the time domain and frequency domain

The other four papers selected for the oral finals were:

• Hamid Reza Azarinia (Sharif University, Tehran, Iran) Optical coupler fabrication based on buried field-assisted ion-exchange method
• Giseppe Garcea (Delft University, Netherlands) Derivation of data flow networks for a specific domain of applications
• Tobias Raithel (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) Software synthesis with evolutionary algorithms
• P.M. Risseeuw, (Eindhoven University, Netherlands) Development of a hysteresis current controller for three phase induction machines

The five jury members were:

•     Buyurman Baykal, Baskent, Turkey
•     Jordan Kolev, Varna, Bulgaria
•     Caro Lucas, Tehran, Iran
•     Javier Macías-Guarasa, Madrid, Spain
•     Baldomir Zajc, Ljubljana, Slovenia

and the whole event was coordinated by Martin Bastiaans, Eindhoven, Netherlands, IEEE R8 SPC coordinator.