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Master Thesis Award Winners

1^st prize: Lara Sá Neves (University of Porto) | “Online hierarchical partitioning of the output space in extreme multi-label data streams”

2^nd prize: Gonçalo Martins (University of Aveiro) | “Passive Harmonic Platform for Versatile Wireless Sensing”

2^nd prize: Mariana Amador (University of Aveiro) | “Broadband Antenna for Through-Wall Radar Systems”

3^rd prize: Fábio Dias (Instituto Superior Técnico) | “Pushing ADC Boundaries for Next-Gen Drug Development”

Student Award Winner

Gonçalo Lobo (University of Lisbon) | "VaultedAI - Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning Inference via Homomorphic Encryption”

Jury

Liliana Ferreira (PhD, Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS)

Filipe Sousa (PhD, Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS)

Panel of Invited Experts

João José Pinto Ferreira (PhD, FEUP)

Carlos Soares (PhD, Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS; FEUP)

Purificação Tavares (CGC Genetics Unilabs)

Pedro Pinto (UPTEC)

José Valente (AZITEK)

Master Thesis Award Winners

1^st prize: Diogo Pires (University of Aveiro) | “Development of an instrumented implant comprising capacitive technology to monitor the fracture bone healing”

2^nd prize: Diogo Martins (University of Minho) | “Deep Learning-based Posture Recognition for a Holistic Ergonomic Assessment Framework”

3^rd prize: Miguel Peixoto (University of Minho) | “Anomaly Detection as a Quality Control Tool in an Industrial Context”

Student Award Winner

Martim Silva (Universidade Católica Portuguesa) | "ReHeAIrt: AI-Driven ECG Application for Enhanced Post-Surgery Recovery Evaluation”

Jury

Liliana Ferreira (PhD, Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS)

Waldir Júnior (PhD, Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS)

Fazel Ansari (PhD, Fraunhofer Austria)

Panel of Invited Experts

João José Pinto Ferreira (PhD, FEUP)

Stefanie Goetz (MBA Student, Fraunhofer Portugal)

Manuel Monteiro (MSc, Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS)

Cristiana Braga (Msc, Peeking Window & Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS)

Filipe Soares (PhD, Peeking Window & Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS)

Rui Castro (Msc, Backslash Code & Fraunhofer Portugal)

Nino Rocha (Msc, Backslash Code & Fraunhofer Portugal)

Vinicius Carvalho (Msc, Backslash Code & Fraunhofer Portugal)

Vitor Rolla (PhD, Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS)

Denise Branco (PhD, Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS)

Master Thesis Award Winners

1^st prize: José Pedro Pinto (University of Aveiro) | "New architecture for rotational self-adaptive electromagnetic energy harvester"

2^nd prize: Rafaela Timóteo (IST University of Lisbon) | "Augmented reality environment for oncoplastic breast surgery"

3^rd prize: Diogo Lavado (NOVA School of Science and Technology) | "Leveraging Group Equivariance To Build Geometric Interpretability For Trustworthy Machine Learning"

Student Award Winner

Filipa Alves (IADE) | "An interactive orrery for cognitive stimulation of adults with intellectual disability"

Jury

Liliana Ferreira (PhD, Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS)

Waldir Júnior (PhD, Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS)

Narges Ahmidi (PhD, Fraunhofer IKS)

Panel of Invited Experts

João José Pinto Ferreira (PhD, FEUP)

Hugo Gamboa (PhD, PLUX; Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS)

Hugo Silva (PhD, PLUX)

PhD Winners

1^st prize:  not assigned

2^nd prize:

Catarina Sousa (NOVA School of Science and Technology) – "Bioremediation of agro-industrial effluents mediated by microalgae"

Inês Cunha (NOVA School of Science and Technology) – "Finding Inspiration in Nature Towards Sustainable Development"

3^rd prize: Sirazul Haque (NOVA School of Science and Technology) – "Optically thick but electrically thin solar cells: For portable and flexible electronic applications"

MSc Winners

1^st prize: Giovanna Calvão (UTAD) – "Fluorescence-based biosensor for detection and quantification of Colletotrichum acutatum in infected olives"

2^nd prize:  Bárbara Tavares (IST – Universidade de Lisboa) – "A Cluster-Based Trip Prediction Graph Neural Network for Bike Sharing Systems"

3^rd prize: Leandro Rodrigues (FCUP) – "Leveraging vegetables production with Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision"

Jury

Liliana Ferreira (PhD, Fraunhofer Portugal & Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS)

Waldir Júnior (PhD, Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS)

Thomas Härtling (PhD, Fraunhofer Portugal AWAM)

Panel of Invited Experts

João José Pinto Ferreira (PhD, FEUP)

Aurora Baptista (BEEVERYCREATIVE)

Ana Palmeira de Oliveira (Labfit)

Nelson Martins (PhD, UA)

Francisco Carvalho (Amorim Florestal, SA)

PhD Winners

1^st prize: Emanuel Carlos (FCT NOVA) – “Printed Metal Oxides: A New Era for Sustainable Electronics”

2^nd prize: Luís Pádua (UTAD) – “Automated Monitoring system for a sustainable agriculture”

3^rd prize: Mario Salgado (UA) – “Development and implementation of devices for the conversion of agroresidues into energy and biochar in farmers cooperatives of the north Ecuadorian Amazon”

MSc Winners

1^st prize: Pedro Rolo (UA) – “Instrumented and adaptive electromagnetic generators: a new concept of harvesting”

2^nd prize: Maria Morais (FCT NOVA) – “Wearable non-enzymatic glucose sensor”

3^rd prize: Helena Montenegro (FEUP) – “Privacy-Preserving visual case-based explanations”

Jury

Liliana Ferreira (PhD, Fraunhofer Portugal & Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS)

Hugo Gamboa (PhD, Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS)

Thomas Härtling (PhD, Fraunhofer Portugal AWAM)

Panel of Invited Experts

João José Pinto Ferreira (PhD, FEUP)

Pedro Saleiro (PhD, Feedzai)

Helena Silva (MSc, CEiiA)

Joana Resende (PhD, FEP)

Pedro Almeida (MSc, PCI · Creative Science Park - Aveiro Region)

PhD Winners

1^st prize: Inês Machado (Instituto Superior Técnico) – “Sneaking into the brain with a new GPS-like technology”

2^nd prize: Renato Panda (Universidade de Coimbra) – "Passive Backscatter Sensors for IoT Applications""Improving music discovery and retrieval with emotionally relevant audio features"

3^rd prize: Daniel Dinis (Universidade de Aveiro) – "All-Digital Antenna Array Transmitter"

MSc Winners

1^st prize: Isabel Oliveira (Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto) –  “Understanding the decisions of CNNs: An in-model approach”

2^nd prize: Pedro Dias (Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto) – “Understanding deep learning decisions in EEG signals”

3^rd prize: Bruno Degardin (Universidade da Beira Interior) – “Weakly and Partially Supervised Learning Frameworks for Anomaly Detection”

Jury

Liliana Ferreira (PhD, Fraunhofer AICOS)

Hugo Gamboa (PhD, Fraunhofer AICOS)

Pablo Oliveira Antonino (PhD, Fraunhofer IESE)

Panel of Invited Experts

João José Pinto Ferreira (PhD, FEUP)

Sara Garcia (PhD, Verve Therapeutics)

Patrick Borg Hedley (Lufthansa Group Portugal)

Clara Gonçalves (universidade do Minho, CUNY Firefly Innovations, ENSICO)

PhD Winners

1^st prize: Vanessa Duarte (Universidade de Aveiro) – “Connecting the Unconnected: The New Era of Satellites”

2^nd prize: Ricardo Correia (Universidade de Aveiro) – "Passive Backscatter Sensors for IoT Applications"

3^rd prize: João Felício (Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa) –"Microwave Breast Imaging Using Dry Setup"

MSc Winners

1^st prize: Catarina Lourenço (Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto) – “Deep Learning for EEG Analysis in Epilepsy” 

2^nd prize: Gonçalo Marcelino (Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologias da Universidade Nova de Lisboa) – “A Computational Approach to the Art of Visual Storytelling” 

3^rd prize: Manuel Carneiro (Universidade de Coimbra) –“Comfortable Fabric-Based Headband for Forehead EEG Monitoring”

Jury

Liliana Ferreira (PhD, Fraunhofer AICOS)

Hugo Gamboa (PhD, Fraunhofer AICOS)

Pablo Oliveira Antonino (PhD, Fraunhofer IESE)

Panel of Invited Experts

João José Pinto Ferreira (PhD, FEUP-MIETE)

Clara Gonçalves (MSc)

Inês Campos Costa (MSc, ANJE)

Patrick Borg Hedley (Lufthansa Group Portugal)

Filipe Josué Oliveira (MBA, Sonae MC)

Ana Ferreira (PhD, CINTESIS - PhD Winner of the Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge 2010)

PhD Winners

1^st prize: Sanaz Asgarifar (Universidade do Algarve) – “Novel Treatment of Glioblastoma Brain Tumour using Bioelectronic Devices”

2^nd prize: Rodrigo Bruno (Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa) – "novaVM - Enhanced Java Virtual Machine for Big Data Applications"

3^rd prize: Filipa Ferrada (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) – "A Modeling Framework for Assessing Emotions in Collaborative Networks"

MSc Winners

1^st prize: Ana Correia (Universidade do Minho) – “Functional Electrical Stimulation System for Drop Foot Correction: an AI-based approach”  

2^nd prize: Carolina Gouveia (Universidade de Aveiro) – “Bio-Radar”  

3^rd prize: José Dias (Universidade do Minho) – “New Generation of Green Printed Lithium-Ion Batteries”

Jury

Liliana Ferreira (PhD, Fraunhofer AICOS)

Ana Correia de Barros (PhD, Fraunhofer AICOS)

Pablo Oliveira Antonino (PhD, Fraunhofer IESE)

Panel of Invited Experts

João José Pinto Ferreira (PhD, FEUP-MIETE)

Marlos Silva (MSc, SONAE)

Nuno Vargas (MSc, MDIF)

Pedro Aguiar (BSc, Ah Business)

PhD Winners

1^st prize: Nuno Almeida (Universidade de Aveiro) – "Multimodal Interaction: Contributions to Simplify Application Development"

2^nd prize: Nuno Moniz (Universidade do Porto) – "Prediction and Ranking of Highly Popular Web Content"

3^rd prize: José Sousa (Universidade de Trás-dos-Montes e Alto Douro) – "Using Drones in Road Accidents Investigation: Viability Assessment & Methodology proposal"

MSc Winners

1^st prize: Rafael Simões (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) – "Automated Measurement of Lesion Charge and Cerebral Volume in the Study of Multiple Sclerosis"

2^nd prize: João Monteiro (Universidade do Porto) – "Improving Health Communication and Personal Information Management"

3^rd prize: João Ferrão (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) – "Low-Cost Colorimetric Enzyme-Free Biosensors for Glucose Detection"

Jury

Liliana Ferreira (PhD, Fraunhofer AICOS)

Filipe Soares (PhD, Fraunhofer AICOS)

Pedro Almeida (MSc, Fraunhofer AICOS)

Panel of Invited Experts

Clara Gonçalves (BSc, UPTEC)

João José Pinto Ferreira (PhD, FEUP-MIETE)

Nuno Carvalho (MSc, Healthcare City)

Pedro Aguiar (BSc, Ah Business)

PhD Winners

1^st prize: Miguel Duarte (Intituto Universitário de Lisboa) – "Bringing Artificial Intelligence for Swarm Robotics Systems to the Real World"

2^nd prize: Helena Pereira (Universidade de Coimbra) – "Non-Invasive Assessment of Cardiovascular Condition using Vibro-Accelerometric Devices"

3^rd prize: Marco Santos (Universidade de Aveiro) – "The new concept model is instrumented active orthopedic implants"

MSc Winners

1^st prize: Pedro Parreira (IST - Universidade de Lisboa) – "Novel Spatial Interaction Techniques for Exploring 3D Medical Images"

2^nd prize: Bernardo Marques (Universidade de Aveiro) – "Physiology assessment tool using Virtual Reality"

3^rd prize: Jorge Lima (Universidade do Porto) – "Argumentation in the Resolution of Passenger Problems using Mobile Devices"

Jury

Pedro Almeida (MSc, Fraunhofer AICOS)

Thomas Luckenbach (PhD, Fraunhofer FOKUS)

Hugo Gamboa (PhD, Fraunhofer AICOS)

Panel of Invited Experts

João José Pinto Ferreira (PhD, FEUP-MIETE)

Liliana Ferreira (PhD, Philips Research)

Marlos Silva (MSc, SONAE)

Paulo Calçada (MSc, Municipality of Porto)

PhD Winners

1^st prize: Sérgio Lopes (Universidade de Aveiro) – “Bringing low-cost centimeter-level indoor positioning to conventional smartphones”

2^nd prize: Mário Vairinhos (Universidade de Aveiro) – “ATA – Adaptable Tangible Artifacts in Home Environment”

3^rd prize: Hoang Van Xiem (IST - Universidade de Lisboa) – “A Novel Scalable Video Coding Solution Combining the Predictive and Distributed Paradigms”

MSc Winners

1^st prize: Bruno Ribeiro (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) – “SYPEC: Development of New Algorithms of Postural Classification and Correction”

2^nd prize: Diana Batista (IST - Universidade de Lisboa) – “Pervasive ECG monitoring and analysis: a cloud computing approach for user-centered healthcare”

3^rd prize: João Felício (IST - Universidade de Lisboa) – “Wideband Body-Implantable Antenna for Short-Range High Data Rate Communication”

Jury

Dirk Elias (PhD, Fraunhofer AICOS)

Thomas Luckenbach (PhD, Fraunhofer FOKUS)

Liliana Ferreira (PhD, Fraunhofer AICOS)

Panel of Invited Experts

Filipe Araújo (MSc, Municipality of Porto)

João José Pinto Ferreira (PhD, FEUP-MIETE)

Artur Baptista (BSc, Vodafone Portugal)

Marlos Silva (MSc, SONAE)

PhD Winners

1^st prize: Paulo de Melo (Instituto Superior Técnico) – “A Novel Functional Electrical Stimulation System and Strategies for Motor Rehabilitation”

2^nd prize: Gilberto Bernardes (Universidade do Porto) – “earGram: Composing Music by Selection”

3^rd prize: Pydi Ganga (Universidade do Porto) – “Transparent and/or flexible low-cost electronics with a-GIZO TFTs”

MSc Winners

1^st prize: Ricardo Eleutério (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) – “Microwave Imaging of the Axilla to Aid Breast Cancer Diagnosis”

2^nd prize: Anna Pompili (Instituto Superior Técnico) – “Speech and language technologies for aphasia therapy”

3^rd prize: Karen Duarte (Universidade de Coimbra) – “SmartGuia: Shopping Assistant for Blind People”
 

Jury

Dirk Elias (PhD, Fraunhofer AICOS)

Thomas Luckenbach (PhD, Fraunhofer FOKUS)

Liliana Ferreira (PhD, Fraunhofer AICOS)

Panel of Invited Experts

Filipe Araújo (MSc, Municipality of Porto)

João José Pinto Ferreira (PhD, FEUP-MIETE)

José Oliveira (MSc, Vodafone Portugal)

Marco Marques (BSc, Bosch Termotecnologia)

PhD Winners

1^st prize: Ricardo Campos (Universidade do Porto) – “Disambiguating Implicit Temporal Queries for Temporal Information Retrieval Applications”

2^nd prize: António Castro (Universidade do Porto) – “A New Approach to Disruption Management in Airline Operations Control”

3^rd prize: João Guimarães (Universidade do Minho) – “A precision grammar for programming biological systems”

MSc Winners

1^st prize: André Santiago (Instituto Superior Técnico) – “Broadband UHF RFID Passive Tag Antenna for Near-Body Operation”

2^nd prize: André Mourão (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) – “NovaEmotions: Enabling affective-interaction in computer applications"

3^rd prize: Inês Machado (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) – “Is There Hidden Information in My Movement?”  

Jury

Dirk Elias (PhD, Fraunhofer AICOS)

Thomas Luckenbach (PhD, Fraunhofer FOKUS)

Liliana Ferreira (PhD, Fraunhofer AICOS)

Pedro Almeida (MSc, Fraunhofer AICOS)

Panel of Invited Experts

João José Pinto Ferreira (PhD, FEUP-MIETE)

Sérgio Salústio (BSc, Bosch)

Ana Teresa Tavares Lehmann (PhD, FEP)

PhD Winners

1^st prize: Samuel Silva (Universidade de Aveiro) – “Left Ventricle Functional Analysis from Coronary CT Angiography”

2^nd prize: Gabriel Pires (Universidade do Minho) – “The effective use of brain-computer interfaces in real-world applications”

3^rd prize: José Silva (Universidade de Coimbra) – “Rapid Prototyping of Ubiquitous Computing Environments”

MSc Winners

1^st prize: Sara Pimenta (Universidade do Minho) – “ABO and Rh Human Blood Typing Device”

2^nd prize: Mafalda Rocha (Universidade de Aveiro) – “Eco-visualization in Design”

Panel of Invited Experts

Miguel Barbosa (MBA, Fraunhofer AICOS)

João José Pinto Ferreira (PhD, FEUP-MIETE)

Jorge Gonçalves (PhD, Vice Rector at Universidade do Porto)

PhD Winners

1^st prize: Daniel Polónia (Universidade de Aveiro) – “Electronic marketplace for teleradiology services”

2^nd prize: Navin Kumar (Universidade de Aveiro) – “Visible light communication systems for road safety applications”

3^rd prize: Rui Barbosa (Universidade do Minho) – “The intelligent hedge fund”

MSc Winners

1^st prize: Ricardo Fernandes (UA) – “Design of a battery-free wireless sensor node”

2^nd prize: Flávio Sousa (UTL-IST) – “A portable stochastic forest fire modeling tool”

3^rd prize: Waldir Pimenta (Universidade do Minho) – “Automated Face Recognition using 3D Shape Extracted from 2D Images”

Jury

Dirk Elias (PhD, Fraunhofer AICOS)

Thomas Luckenbach (PhD, Fraunhofer FOKUS)

Liliana Ferreira (PhD, Fraunhofer AICOS)

Panel of Invited Experts

João José Pinto Ferreira (PhD, FEUP-MIETE)

Mário Rui Silva (PhD, FEP)

PhD Winners

1^st prize: Ana Ferreira (FCUP) – “Modelling Access Control for Healthcare Information Systems: How to control access through policies, human processes and legislation”

2^nd prize: Gabriel Fernandes (UC-DEEC) – “Parallel Algorithms and Architectures for LDPC Decoding”

MSc Winners

1^st prize: Augusto Esteves (UMA) – “Tangible User Interfaces and Embodied Cognition”

2^nd prize: David Navalho (UNL-FCT) – “Unified Cooperative Location System”

3^rd prize: Rui Marinho (UMinho) – “Uma abordagem visual ao Processo Clínico Electrónico”

Panel of Invited Experts

José Novais Barbosa (PhD, Chairman of UPTEC)

Jorge Gonçalves (PhD, Vice Rector at Universidade do Porto)

João José Pinto Ferreira (PhD, FEUP-MIETE)