Student Paper Contest 2024-1st Phase Selection – IEEE Region 8

SPC 2024

The first phase of the Student Paper Contest 2024, the fifty-seventh edition of this prestigious and long-standing R8 student contest, has concluded. There were a total of 34, of which 32 were considered valid.

The SPC 2024 international jury, comprising Prof. Gianfranco Chicco from Italy, Prof. Joao Carlos Ferreira from Portugal, Prof. Paul Micallef from Malta, and Prof. Vera Markovic from Serbia, has anonymously selected the following five papers (listed alphabetically by authors’ first names) for the Regional Oral Finals:

TOP 5 PAPERS – SPC 2024 FINALISTS
(alphabetically by authors’ first names)
Name of the first author	University	Country	Paper Title
Jan Popič	University of Maribor	Slovenia	Using Neural Networks in the Search of Low Auto-correlation Binary Sequences
Loay Alfeqy	Ain Shams University	Egypt	BEVSORT: Bird Eye View LiDAR Multi Object Tracking
Matea Marinova	Ss Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje	North Macedonia	Accelerating Convergence in Split Learning for Time-Varying and Resource-Limited Environments
Matic Pokorn	University of Ljubljana	Slovenia	Smart Homes, Smarter Savings: Energy Trading with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Tim Bary	Université catholique de Louvain	Belgium	Designing Pre-training Datasets from Unlabeled Data for EEG Classification with Transformers

SPC 2024 Oral Finals will take place as part of R8 flagship conference MELECON 2024, in Porto, Portugal, from June 25 to 27, 2024. The awards for students are $800, $500, and $200 for first, second, and third place, respectively, and the award for the winner’s Student Branch is $250.

The IEEE R8 Student Activities Committee extends congratulations to the authors of the top five papers and the IEEE Student Branches represented by the finalists!

We express gratitude to all participants in SPC 2024! The majority of the submitted papers exhibit high quality, and we wholeheartedly encourage the authors to persist in their research work, as well as in the preparation and publication of technical papers.

Vera Markovic

IEEE R8 SAC

SPC Coordinator