IEEE Portugal Section Awards
Each year, the IEEE Portugal Section awards the most valuable IEEE Portugal members. The awards measure and acknowledge the impact of its members during the previous year. Alongside, the IEEE Portugal Section awards the Outstanding M.Sc. and Ph.D. Thesis Awards submitted by former M.Sc. and Ph.D.students who were enrolled in an M.Sc. or Ph.D. program in a Portuguese Higher Education Institution.
Section Awards
Outstanding Chapter Section Award: Vehicular Technology Chapter
Outstanding Activity Award: Communications Team (Cátia Carneiro, Diogo Pereira, Eliana Neuza Silva, and Jorge Pinto)
Special Recognition Award: Telmo Fernandes
Outstanding Student Branch Award: IEEE Universidade do Minho Student Branch
Rising Star Organizational Unit: Communications Chapter
Best IEEE Volunteer Section Award: João Pedro Oliveira
Outstanding WIE Member Award: Eliana Neuza Silva
Outstanding YP Member Award: Samuel Carvalho
Outstanding Student Member Award: Daniela Ferreira, Matilde Rocha, Pedro Daniel Mendes
Best Ph.D. Thesis Award
Pedro Filipe da Costa Gonçalves (UC), “Fault-Tolerant Predictive Control of PMSGs in Offshore Wind Turbines”
Outstanding M.Sc. Thesis Award
João Carlos Ramos Gonçalves de Matos (FEUP), “Research Frameworks towards Health Equity”
João Pedro Machado Vitorino (ISEP), “Realistic Adversarial Machine Learning to improve Network Intrusion Detection”
José Pedro Moura Costa Pinto (UA), “New Architecture for Rotational Self-Adaptive Electromagnetic Energy Harvester”
Pedro Miguel Nicolau Escaleira (UA), “Securing Real World 5G MEC Deployments”
Section Awards
Outstanding Chapter Section Award: Instrumentation & Measurement
Outstanding Activity Award: Catarina Reis
Special Recognition Award: Catarina Silva, Pedro Simeão Carvalho, and Miguel Ferreira
Outstanding Student Branch Award: Universidade do Porto
Rising Star Organizational Unit: Student Branch da Universidade de Aveiro
Best IEEE Volunteer Section Award: João Carlos Ferreira
Outstanding WIE Member Award: Maria Pires
Outstanding YP Member Award: Igor Matias
Outstanding Student Member Award: José Miguel Simões
Outstanding M.Sc. Thesis Award
João Pedro Barbosa Fonseca, “AI-Based Models to Predict The Traumatic Brain Injury Outcome”
Vasco José Rodrigues Cruz, “Algorithms for Art Gallery Problems”
Carolina Pignatelli, “Design of a Planar Solid State Transformer for DC Grids”
Tiago Emanuel da Silva Oliveira, “Small antennas for 5G and IoT”
Section Awards
Outstanding Chapter Section Award: Joint Chapter on Antennas & Propagation, Electron Devices and Microwave Theory
Outstanding Activity Award: Communications Team
Outstanding Student Branch Award: Instituto Superior de Lisboa
Rising Star Organizational Unit: Student Branch da Universidade de Coimbra
Best IEEE Volunteer Section Award: Cátia Bandeiras
Outstanding WIE Member Award: Alexandra Pereira, Beatriz Santos
Outstanding Student Member Award: David Morgado
Outstanding Student Member Award: Diogo Martins
Best Ph.D. Thesis Award
Ricardo João Luís Marques Correia, “Passive Backscatter Wireless Sensor with Wireless Power Transmission for IoT applications”
Outstanding M.Sc. Thesis Award
Maria Teresa Parreira, “Describing Monolayer Mechanoresponse from Nuclear Morphology and Dynamics: a Computational Approach”
Manuel Serra Nunes, “Action-conditioned Disentanglement of Agent and Objects for Video Prediction in Robotic Tasks”
Section Awards
Outstanding Student Branch Award: Universidade do Porto
Outstanding Chapter Section Award: Education Chapter
Outstanding Chapter Section Award: EMBS Chapter
Outstanding Young Professional: José Pinto
Outstanding WIE Member Award: Luísa Macedo
Special Recognition Award: Ana Madureira
Best IEEE Volunteer Award: Miguel Ferreira
Outstanding M.Sc. Thesis Award
Pedro Miguel da Silva Moreira, “Bobina de Petersen Eletrónica: Análise do Regime Transitória e Validação Experimental”
Manuel dos Santos Neves, “Laser Phase Noise Mitigation for Subcarrier-Multiplexing Optical Transmission Systems”
Afonso Duarte Amaral Cardoso Botelho, “Design and Application of Thrust Manoeuvres in a Constrained Spacecraft Rendezvous Context Using Optimal Control Techniques”
Pedro Miguel Dias Trindade, “Distributed Formation Control of Double-Integrator Vehicles in the Presence of Unknown Constant Disturbances”
Miguel Alves Ferreira, “Routing on Multiple Optimality Criteria: Theory and Protocols”
Hemaxi Narotamo, “Deep Learning Based Cell Nuclei Segmentation: An Application for Cell Cycle Staging”
André Miguel Ferreira da Cruz, “Fairness-Aware Hyperparameter Optimization”
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Outstanding WIE Member Award: Ana Margarida Trigo