Section Awards

Outstanding Chapter Section Award:IEEE Power & Energy Portuguese Chapter

Outstanding Activity Award: ShareToy -UAveiro

Special Recognition Award: Rodolfo Oliveira and Pedro Fonseca

Outstanding Student Branch Award: IEEE Universidade do Porto Student Branch

Rising Star Organizational Unit: Engineering in Medicine and Biology Student Chapter – UCoimbra

Best IEEE Volunteer Section Award: Nuno Rodrigues

Outstanding WIE Member Award: Maria Francisca Ferreira

Outstanding YP Member Award: João Belo

Outstanding Student Member Award: João Preizal, Andreia Oliveira and Nuno Mendes

Outstanding Student Branch Counselor: Catarina Silva

Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award

Mohsen Barzegar PhD Thesis (I.S.Técnico):“Damage Imaging in Guided Wave-based Inspection of Adhesive Joints”

Outstanding M.Sc. Thesis Award

António Maria Wergikosky Nunes MSc Thesis (I.S.Técnico): “Orbital Station-Keeping in the Circular and Elliptic Restricted Three-Body Problems”

André Sá e Silva MSc Thesis (U.Minho): “Fine-tuning of a selenization process to develop Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin film solar cells”

Rafael Fernandes Gonçalves MSc Thesis (U.Aveiro): “Machine Learning as a Service for Renewable Energy Communities”

Ana Catarina Gomes MSc Thesis (U.Porto): “Active Inference against Federated Learning: Attacks and Solutions”

Lilli Josephine Anders MSc Thesis (I.S.Técnico): “Design and Evaluation of a Lower Limb Orthoprosthesis for Toddlers with Fibular Hemimelia Using Additive Manufacturing”

Section Awards

Outstanding Chapter Section Award: Instrumentation & Measurement

Outstanding Activity Award: Leadership Camp

Special Recognition Award: Ana Margarida Trigo, and Diogo Martins

Outstanding Student Branch Award: Universidade do Minho Student Branch

Rising Star Organizational Unit: Engineering in Medicine and Biology Student Chapter – UPorto

Best IEEE Volunteer Section Award: Fernando Velez

Outstanding WIE Member Award: Beatriz Morais

Outstanding YP Member Award: Diogo Pereira

Outstanding Student Member Award: Marta Rodrigues, Sarah Joosab, and Cristiana Azevedo

Outstanding M.Sc. Thesis Award

André Pragosa Clérigo MSc Thesis (U.Aveiro): “On the Integration of Communication, Sensing, and AR towards Road Safety”

Bruno Rafael Gonçalves Ribeiro MSc Thesis (P.Porto): “Federated learning for agent communities to enable dynamic mobility in privacy-preserving environments”

Catarina Sofia Gomes da Silva Pereira MSc Thesis (U.Porto): “A Comprehensive Study of the Magnetocaloric Thermodynamic Properties of Bulk and Micrometric Gadolinium Samples”

Matilde Pinto Paula Marques da Rocha MSc Thesis (U.Aveiro): “Photonic solution for elders’ indoor activity monitoring”

Nuno Ricardo Teixeira da Costa MSc Thesis (U.Porto): “Leveraging Physics-Informed Neural Architectures as Surrogate Models for Space Weather Forecasting”

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”

Section Awards

Outstanding WIE Member Award: Ana Margarida Trigo