Student Paper Contest 2009
The 2009 IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest received 13 papers from 11 Student Branches in 10 countries:
- Austria, Technical University of Graz
- Belgium, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- Egypt, Cairo University
- Germany, University of Technology Ilmenau
- Iran, University of Tehran (3x)
- Israel, Technion, Israeli Institute of Technology, Haifa
- Netherlands, Eindhoven University of Technology
- Russia, Saint-Petersburg Electrotechnical University
- Slovenia, University of Ljubljana
- Slovenia, University of Maribor
- South Africa, University of Pretoria
The oral finals took place in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, on 19 May 2009, as part of EUROCON 2009 (18-23 May 2009).
R8 IEEE SPC 2009 finalists, Jury and Region 8 Director
The three winners were:
- Ralph Hermans (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands) Low-complexity model predictive control of electromagnetic actuators
- Bernhard Geiger (Technical University of Graz, Austria) Ranging in the IEEE 802.15.4a standard using energy detectors
- Jef Beerten (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Comparison of three-level torque hysteresis controllers for Direct Torque Control
The other two papers selected for the oral finals were:
- Hossein Hajimirsadeghi (University of Tehran, Iran) A hybrid IWO/PSO algorithm for fast and global optimization
- Khaled S. Refaat (Cairo University, Egypt) The support vector machined kernel
The five jury members for the 2009 SPEC were:
- Martin Bastiaans , Eindhoven, Netherlands, IEEE R8 SPEC coordinator
- Carlos López-Barrio, Madrid, Spain
- Andrzej Pacut, Warsaw, Poland (not present at the oral finals)
- Djordje Paunovic, Belgrade, Serbia
- Irina Borisovna Vendik, Saint-Petersburg, Russia