The IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest is organized by the IEEE Region 8 commitee. It covers Europe, Middle East and Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The UCL IEEE Student Branch selects the best student Master Thesis to represent UCL for the contest. The Universit\u00e9 Catholique de Louvain (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) has won and been selected for the oral finals several times:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2025 <\/strong>– No participation
2024<\/strong>\u00a0– Oral Finals (Second Place)<\/strong><\/span>
Arman Nikraftar Khiabani,\u00a0Deep Reinforcement Learning for the Expert Advice Multi-Armed Bandit<\/em>
2023<\/strong>\u00a0– Winner<\/strong><\/span>
Tim Bary, Designing Pre-training Datasets from Unlabeled Data for EEG Classification with Transformers<\/em>
2022<\/strong>\u00a0– Oral Finals
Matthieu Brabant,\u00a0Homomorphic Encryption for Privacy-Friendly Augmented Democracy<\/em>
2021<\/strong>\u00a0– Winner<\/strong><\/span>
Olivier Leblanc,\u00a0An affordable pedagogical setup for wave-particule duality and applications to chaotic stadium cavity
<\/em>2020<\/strong> – Participation
Anat Levi, Artificial Intelligence in Orthopaedic Recovery<\/em>
2019 <\/strong>– Accepted for Oral Finals
Antoine Paris, Identifiability Conditions for Multi-Channel Blind Deconvolution with Short Filters.<\/em>
2018 <\/strong>– Oral Finals (Second Place)<\/strong><\/span>
Benjamin Chi\u00eam,\u00a0Supervised classification of structural brain networks reveals gender differences<\/em>
2017\u00a0<\/strong>– Accepted for Oral Finals
Mathieu Jadin and Gauthier Tihon,\u00a0Securing MultiPath TCP<\/em>
2016\u00a0<\/strong>– Participation
Charlotte Frenkel, Soft Error Mitigation Techniques for Modern Commercial Off-The-Shelf FPGAs in Space Applications<\/em>
2015<\/strong>\u00a0– Oral Finals (Third Place)<\/strong><\/span>
Quentin Cappart and Adrien Thonet,\u00a0The World Migration Network: Rankings, Groups and Gravity Models<\/em>
2014<\/strong>\u00a0– Oral Finals (Third Place)<\/strong><\/span>
Nicolas Van der Noot and Allan Barrea,\u00a0Zero-Moment Point on a Bipedal Robot under Bio-Inspired Walking Control<\/em>
2013<\/strong>\u00a0– Participation
Guerric de Streel,\u00a0Design and Optimisation of Ultra-Low-Power FPGAs to be embedded in Energy Autonomous Systems<\/em>
2012<\/strong>\u00a0– Oral Finals (Second Place)<\/span>
<\/strong>Augustin Cosse,\u00a0Diffeomorphic Surface-Based Registration for MR-US Fusion in Prostate Brachytherapy\u00a0<\/em>
2011<\/strong>\u00a0– Participation
Fran\u00e7ois Botman
2010<\/strong>\u00a0– Winner<\/strong><\/span>
Maxime Taquet,\u00a0Feature-based error processing for robust surface registration in computer assisted orthopedic surgery<\/em>
2006-2009<\/strong>\u00a0– No participation
2005<\/strong>\u00a0– Participation
2004<\/strong>\u00a0– Winner<\/span>
<\/strong>Antonin Descampe and Fran\u00e7ois Devaux,\u00a0A flexible line-based JPEG2000 decoder for digital cinema\u00a0<\/em>
2003<\/strong>\u00a0– Participation
2002<\/strong>\u00a0– Oral Finals
Gael Rouvroy and Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Standaert,\u00a0FPGA\u2019s as cryptanalytic tools<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n