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:
- Johann Groszschaedl (Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria) Area-efficient VLSI implementation of arithmetic operations in the binary finite field GF(2^m)
- Arjan Meijerink (University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands) Performance improvement of a generalized coherence multiplexing system
- 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