Awards

  • P. Escaleira, AP2SI Merit Award for Masters in Information Security, This is a prize awarded by AP2SI each year to an outstanding Master's thesis in the area of Cybersecurity in Portugal. The award has an associated monetary contribution of 1000€., 01-11-2023
  • P. Escaleira, IEEE Portugal Outstanding MSc Thesis Award, This is a prize awarded by the IEEE Portugal Section to recognize exceptional Master’s thesis in the technical areas under the scope of IEEE., 01-11-2023
  • P. Escaleira, Best Thesis Award, The APDC Best Thesis Award (BTA) is an annual award that aims to reward the merit of master's dissertations by students from schools belonging to the Consortium of Engineering Schools (Consórcio das Escolas de Engenharia in Portuguese), having an associated monetary contribution of 1500€. This award was given to Pedro Escaleira's master's thesis entitled "Securing Real World 5G MEC Deployments", completed in 2022, in the telecommunications modality., 01-05-2023
  • M. Rocha, A. C. Nepomuceno, H. R. Chi​, A. Radwan, P.S André, N. Alberto, P. Antunes, M. F. Domingues, Best Conference Paper Award - ICC2023, Paper title: QoE-Aware Edge-Assisted Machine Learning-Based Fall Detection and Prediction with FBGs, 01-05-2023
  • P. Escaleira, ETSI OSM Release Twelve Outstanding Technical Contributor, Award presented in recognition of his excellent and dedicated work within ETSI OSM during its Release TWELVE cycle, for progressing various technical areas with high quality contributions and expertise, bringing the best level of enthusiasm and team spirit to the OSM community, 01-06-2022
  • D. Corujo, Best Booth Award, Best Booth Award at the EuCNC/6G Summit, in Porto, Portugal, entitled "Demonstrating 5G in Vertical Industries from 5Growth", 01-06-2021
  • N. Marques, JP Barraca, A. Zúquete, ANRW.PT 2020 Prize: Best Technical Paper and IETF Relevance Mention, The Annual ISOC.PT ANR Workshop and Prize is an initiative of the Portuguese Chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC.PT) that aims to promote applied research in computer networks and Internet in Portugal, by distinguishing applied research work carried out in Portugal by advanced students or other members of the R&D community, from Portuguese Universities, Research Centers or Industrial R&D Labs. This work describes an interesting proposal for a solution that can integrate the Captive Portal paradigm, which facilitates enrolment of new network subscribers, with the standard practices of security for 802.11 networks. The contribution relies on a new EAP-compliant protocol (Extended Authentication Protocol for Secure Hotspots, EAP-SH) that bridges both approaches, providing a solution for a flexible and effective authentication framework., 01-04-2020
  • P.F. Fonseca, P. Pedreiras, FS Silva, As Novas Fronteiras de Engenharia – Docentes de Engenharia, Os prémios "As Novas Fronteiras da Engenharia" são atribuídos por um Fundo com o mesmo nome, constituído em Março de 2011 com o saldo existente nas contas do ICEE 2007 – International Conference on Engineering Education, The Moving Frontiers of Engineering e pela contribuição, em igual montante, da Região Centro da Ordem dos Engenheiros. Anualmente são atribuídos dois prémios: Um prémio que distingue um artigo publicado em revista científica nacional ou internacional ou apresentado em congresso científico nacional ou internacional relativo ao Ensino da Engenharia, da autoria de um docente ou grupo de docentes do Ensino Superior, Universitário ou Politécnico, de uma Escola Superior de Engenharia, da Região Centro de Portugal (distritos de Coimbra, Aveiro, Leiria, Viseu, Guarda e Castelo Branco). O valor do prémio é de 2500 Euros. E um prémio, que distingue o melhor trabalho da autoria de um aluno ou grupo de alunos do Ensino Secundário ou do Ensino Básico, relativo a Engenharia ou Tecnologia, de Escolas localizadas na Região Centro (distritos de Coimbra, Aveiro, Leiria, Viseu, Guarda e Castelo Branco), individualmente ou em grupo com o máximo de três elementos. O valor deste prémio é de 2000 Euros., 01-09-2018
  • F. Meneses, C. Guimarães, D. Corujo, R. Aguiar, Best Paper Award (Mobility Track), 9th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility & Security (NTMS 2018), for the work "SDN-based Mobility Management: Handover Performance Impact in Constrained Devices", in Paris, France, 01-02-2018
  • O. Pereira, D. Regateiro, R. Aguiar, Best paper Award, Best Paper Award at the 6th DATA (intl. Conf. on Data Science, Technology and Applications) held in Madrid. Paper: SPDC: Secure Proxied Database Connectivity, 01-07-2017
  • R. Aguiar, Best Executive Editor ETT, Prize of Best Executive Editor (five are nominated) from the Journal Emerging Telecommunication Technologies, Wiley, 01-01-2017
  • R. Aguiar, IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, Eleito IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer para o biénio 2017-18., 01-01-2017
  • DB Branco, P. Pedreiras, Winner of BRESIMAR ”IDEAS CONTEST FOR ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS" 2015, Winner of the 2015 Edition of the ”IDEAS CONTEST FOR ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS“, promoted by Bresimar Automação, Aveiro, Portugal, with the project “Applying Estimation Techniques to the TekOn Sensors”, 01-06-2015
  • P. Pedreiras, T. Silva, R. L. Lopes, L. Almeida, Winner of the "Open Mind ESEGUR 2014 - Innovation on the Security Sector" competition, Winner of the "Open Mind ESEGUR 2014 - Innovation on the Security Sector" competition, with the work “IstreamS: Intelligent stream management for Security applications", 01-11-2014
  • D. Corujo, C. Ferreira, A. Neto, A. Mota, F. Silva, J. Pereira, C. Guimarães, P. R. Rosa, S. Kofuji, R. Aguiar, Best Paper Award, 10th Advanced International Conference on Telecommunications (AICT-2014), IARIA, for the work “Towards a Carrier Grade SDN Controller: Integrating OpenFLow with Telecom Services”, in Paris, France, 01-07-2014
  • D. Corujo, Outstanding Young Researcher Award, IEEE ComSoc EMEA Regional Award (2014) for ​their promising research activities for the benefit of the society, 01-02-2014
  • P.T. Tavares, P. Gonçalves, J. L. Oliveira, Best paper award LANOMS 2011, 01-11-2011
  • R. Aguiar, L. Alves, Fraunhofer Challenge 2011, Won Second prize in PhD category for the best Idea in PhD thesis work for session 2010-1011, 01-10-2011
  • E. Rocha, P. Salvador, A. N. Nogueira, Best Paper, Best Paper at the MONAMI 2011 for the paper ''Classification of hidden users' profiles in wireless communications'', 01-09-2011
  • Nuno Rafael Lourenço, L. Alves, R. Aguiar, Visible Light Communication for Road Safety: Poster Award, Awarded one of the best poster award in the Engineering Category at Annual Research Day at University of Aveiro, 01-06-2011
  • E. Rocha, P. Salvador, A. N. Nogueira, Best Student Paper, Best Student Paper for the paper "Detection of Illicit Traffic based on Multiscale Analysis", 01-09-2009
  • R. F. S. Caldeirinha, M. Antunes, SGF - Sistema multi-funcional de gestão de frotas, 2009-2011 Innovation program - PT Inovação, 01-03-2009
  • Nuno Rafael Lourenço, R. Aguiar, Michael Spiez, Best Paper Award, IETE Gowri Memorial Award for Best Paper in Journal, 01-12-2008
  • D. Corujo, V. Jesus, S. Sargento, R. Aguiar, M. A. Almeida, N. Sénica, Best Local Student Paper, IEEE Sumposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2007), for the work "Mobility with Quality of Service Support for Multi-Interface Terminals: Combined User and Network Approach", Aveiro, Portugal, 01-07-2007