2013 IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest

This year, EUROCON will host the oral finals of the official IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest.

IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest (SPC) is a traditional, and probably the oldest students activity in Region 8 – over 45 years old. It is an important student, but also academic and technical activity. 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 can author the papers, without co-authorship of their professors-mentors or other associates.
The written papers sent by Student Branches to the Regional contest are graded by an international jury without knowledge of the identity of the authors and of their school. The best papers are presented at the Regional Oral Finals, published in conference proceedings and included in IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Three best finalists will receive prizes from the IEEE Life Member Fund.

For details on the organization and rules of the IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest, click here.

IEEE R8 SPC 2013 - Results of the 1st phase

IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest 2013 was announced in the beginning of June 2012. The deadline for the Student Branches to submit best papers to R8 contest was December 15, 2012. Out of the total of 42 submitted student papers, 37 fulfilled the prerequisites and entered the grading process. The contestants were from 22 sections and 34 different Student Branches:

University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
University Carlos III of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
University of Niš, Niš, Serbia and Montenegro
Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece
KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro
University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Ecole Nationale d’Ingenieurs de Sfax (ENIS), Tunisia
University of Greenwich, Greenwich, UK
Catholique Univ of Louvain, Louvain, Belgium
Universita del Salento, Salento, Italy
Opole University of Technology, Opole, Poland
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia
Telecom Bretagne, France
Arab American University, Palestine
Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran
Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnic University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
University of Naples Parthenope, Naples, Italy
ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

In the first phase of the IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest, the papers were graded by the International Jury:

Prof. George Paunovic, Serbia – Chair,
Prof. Samir Shaheen, Egypt
Prof. Andrzej Pacut, Poland
Prof. Carlos Lopez-Barrio, Spain
Prof. Mario Cifrek, Croatia

Each written paper could receive maximum 45 points for the technical and engineering content, and maximum 25 points for the content presentation.

The Jury of the IEEE Region 8 SPC 2013 selected the following five papers (listed in alphabetical order of the author’s first name) for the SPC 2013 Oral Finals:

Diego Marmsoler - On the Laws of Failure: A Theory of Compensable Programs, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Giel J. Op ’t Veld - On a New Compressed Sensing Paradigm in The Modulated Wideband Converter, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Maarten Van de Put - Band-to-band tunneling in III-V semiconductor heterostructures, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Marcos André Pinto - Web-Based System for Automatic Evaluation of Java Algorithms, ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Saeed Karimimehr - A Novel Face Recognition System Inspired by Computational Neuroscience, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran

In the second phase of the competition, held on Monday, July 1st at EUROCON, each finalist will have a 20-minute slot to present their papers and answer questions, obtaining up to 30 points.
After the oral finals, the jury will award three best papers with prizes from the IEEE Life Member Fund.