A good indicator of the quality of the training of IC Post-Graduation students are the various prizes received in Contests for Master's Dissertations and Doctoral Theses, promoted by scientific computer societies (SBC, IEEE, SBIE, SCOPES, CLEI / UNESCO, SBRC).
2023
Former doctoral students, Fabrício Matheus Gonçalves and Alysson Bolognesi Prado, together with Prof. Dr. Maria Cecília Calani Baranauskas, had her article selected as Best Article of the 20th Ibero-American Conference WWW/Internet 2023 for the work entitled “From Open Design to Open HCI: Exploring Synergies Through a Systematic Literature Review”.
Former doctoral student, Isaías Bittencourt Felzmann, supervised by Prof. Dr. Lucas Wanner was awarded first place in the doctoral category of the Thesis and Dissertation Competition in Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (WSCAD-CTD 2023) for his thesis entitled “Architectural Support for Approximate Computing”.
The article “Design of 5G MEC-based Networks with 1:N:K Protection Scheme” by doctoral student Hernâni Delgado Chantre, supervised by Prof. Dr. Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca, was presented at the Technical Section on Telecommunications and Network Analytics Best Paper Award 2022/2023 of the INFORMS 2023 conference.
Former doctoral student Rodrigo Augusto Cardoso da Silva, supervised by Prof. Dr. Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca, was awarded First Place in the CLTD – IX Latin American Doctorate Thesis Competition of the XLIX Latin American Informatics Conference (CLEI 2023) for the thesis entitled “The Fog Node Location Problem”.
Former doctoral student Allan Mariano de Souza together with Prof. Luiz Fernando Bittencourt (Unicamp), Prof. Eduardo Coelho Cerqueira (UFPA), Prof. Antonio Loureiro (UFMG) and Prof. Leandro Villas (Unicamp) were awarded the Best Paper Award of the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC 2023) for the article entitled “Devices, I Choose You: Adaptive Client Selection for Effective Communication in Federated Learning”.
The thesis defended by former doctoral student Carlos Alberto Astudillo Trujillo under the guidance of Prof. Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca was ranked 1st in the sixth edition of the Doctoral Thesis Contest (CTD) of the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC) 2023 for his thesis entitled “Medium Access Control Techniques for Massive Machine-Type Communications in Cellular Networks.”.
The thesis defended by former doctoral student Rodrigo Augusto Cardoso da Silva under the guidance of Prof. Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca was ranked 3rd in the sixth edition of the Doctoral Thesis Contest (CTD) of the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC) 2023 for his thesis entitled “The Fog Node Location Problem”.
The doctoral student Eryck Pedro da Silva, together with his supervisor Prof. doctor Rodolfo Jardim de Azevedo and co-advisor Dr. Ricardo Edgard Caceffo, received Honorable Mention at the III Brazilian Symposium on Computing Education (EduComp 2023) for the article entitled “Is passing the test cases enough? Identification and analysis of comprehension problems in correct codes”.
The thesis defended by former doctoral student Armando Faz Hernandez under the guidance of Prof. Julio Cesar Lopez Hernandez was classified in 2nd place in the 2022 UNICAMP Highlight Thesis Award, in the area of Knowledge, Engineering and Technology of the Computer Science Program and therefore will receive an Honorable Mention for the work entitled “High-Performance Elliptic Curve Cryptography: A SIMD Approach to Modern Curves".
2022
The members of LInterHAD (Laboratory of Human-Digital Artifact Interaction) of the Instituto de Computação received the following awards at the XI Brazilian Congress of Informatics in Education – CBIE 2022:
- Former doctoral student Emanuel Felipe Duarte together with Profa. Dr. Maria Cecília Calani Baranauskas (IC-Unicamp), received the Best Article Award in “Trilha 1: Reports of educational experiences using TDIC” at the XXVIII Informatics Workshop at School – WIE 2022, with the article “Social and Enactive Interactions with Aquarela Virtual: Thematic Analysis of a Remote Activity”.
- Doctoral student Yusseli Lizeth Méndez Mendoza, together with former student Emanuel Felipe Duarte and co-supervised by Prof. Dr. Maria Cecília Calani Baranauskas, received the Best Article Award in “Track 3: Human Factors in Digital Technology in Education” at the XXXIII Brazilian Symposium on Informatics in Education – SBIE 2022, with the article “Evaluating the Perception of Others in a Remote Experience of Interaction: a Pilot Study”.
Former master's student André Gomes Regino, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Julio C. dos Reis, was awarded the 3rd (third) place in the Theses and Dissertations Contest (Dissertation modality) of the XXVIII Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and Web Systems (WebMedia 2022) for the work entitled “Leveraging Linked Open Data: A Link Maintenance Framework”.
Former master's student Jordão Okuma Barbosa Ferraz Bragantini, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Alexandre Xavier Falcão, received the award for Best Master's Dissertation at the 35th Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images (SIBGRAPI 2022) for the work entitled “Interactive Image Segmentation: From Graph-based Algorithms to Feature-Space Annotation”.
Doctoral student André Gomes Regino, along with co-authors Rodrigo Oliveira Caus, Victor Hochgreb and Prof. Dr. Julio Cesar dos Reis (IC/Unicamp), received the Best Student Paper Award at the 14th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (KEOD 2022) for the article “Knowledge Graph-based Product Recommendations on E-commerce Platforms” .
Master's student Antônio Sávio Nascimento Cavalcante, together with Prof. Dr. Breno Bernard Nicolau de França (IC-Unicamp) were awarded the 2nd (second) place of the Best Paper Award of the “XVI Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures and Reuse (SBCARS 2022)” of the “XIII Brazilian Congress of Software ( CBSOFT 2022)” for the article entitled 'The Mystery framework for developing cooperative Multi-UAV Systems'.
Former doctoral student Allan M. de Souza, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Leandro Aparecido Villas (IC-Unicamp) and co-supervision of Prof. Dr. Torsten Braun (University of Bern) was awarded an Honorable Mention in the “Capes Thesis Award – 2022 Edition” for the thesis entitled 'Towards a Personalized Multi-objective Vehicle Traffic Re-routing System'.
Former doctoral student Vinícius Loti de Lima, under the supervision of Prof. doctor Flávio Keidi Miyazawa (IC-Unicamp) and co-supervised by Prof. doctor Thiago Alves de Queiroz (Federal University of Goiás/ Regional Catalão – UFCAT) was awarded the 1st (first) place in the “XXXV Theses and Dissertations Contest (CTD 2022)” of the “42nd Congress of the Brazilian Computing Society (CSBC) 2022)” and was also awarded as the Best Doctoral Thesis, at the “LIV Brazilian Symposium on Operational Research (SBPO 2022)” for the thesis entitled 'Integer Programming Based Methods Applied to Cutting, Packing, and Scheduling'.
Former doctoral student Allan M. de Souza, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Leandro Aparecido Villas (IC-Unicamp) and co-supervision of Prof. Dr. Torsten Braun (University of Bern) was awarded the 2nd (second) place in the “XXXV Thesis and Dissertation Competition (CTD 2022)” of the “42nd Congress of the Brazilian Computer Society (CSBC 2022)” for the thesis entitled 'Towards a Personalized Multi-objective Vehicle Traffic Re-routing System'.
Former master's student Felipe de Carvalho Pereira, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Pedro Jussieu de Rezende (IC-Unicamp) and co-supervision of Prof. Dr. Cid Carvalho de Souza (IC-Unicamp) was awarded the 3rd (third) place in the "XXXV Theses and Dissertations Contest (CTD 2022)" of the "42nd Congress of the Brazilian Computer Society (CSBC 2022)" for the dissertation entitled 'A Computational Study of the Perfect Awareness Problem'.
Former doctoral student Allan M. de Souza, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Leandro Aparecido Villas (IC-Unicamp) and co-supervision of Prof. Dr. Torsten Braun (University of Bern) was awarded the 1st (first) place in the “VIII Concurso Latinoamericano de Tesis de Doctorado (CLTD 2022)” of the “XLVIII Conference Latinoamérica de Informática (CLEI 2022)” for the work entitled 'Towards a Personalized Multi-objective Vehicle Traffic Re-routing System'.
Former doctoral student Carlos Alberto Astudillo Trujillo, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca (IC-Unicamp) was awarded the 2nd (second) place in the “VIII Concurso Latinoamericano de Tesis de Doctorado (CLTD 2022)” of the “XLVIII Conference Latinoamérica de Informática (CLEI 2022)” for the work entitled 'Medium Access Control Techniques for Massive Machine-Type Communications in Cellular Networks'.
Student Allan M. de Souza (PhD), under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Leandro Aparecido Villas (IC-Unicamp) and co-supervision of Prof. Dr. Torsten Braun (University of Bern) was selected in the Thesis and Dissertation Competition (CTD) of the “XL Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC 2022)” as one of the best Doctoral Theses of 2022 for the work entitled “Towards a Personalized Multi-objective Vehicle Traffic Re-routing System".
The authors Eryck Pedro da Silva (PhD student), Rodolfo Jardim de Azevedo (Professor of the Program) and Ricardo Edgard Caceffo (Post-Doctoral Student of the IC), received the award “Best Article in the Track of Research Articles” at the II Brazilian Symposium of Education in Computing (EduComp 2022) for the article 'Analysis of Topics Most Discussed in Introduction to Programming in Brazilian Federal Universities'.
The authors Matheus F. Sanches (PhD student), Jader MC de Sá (Master's student), Allan M. de Souza (post-doc), Diego A. Silva (CI&T employee), Rafael R. de Souza (post-doc) -doc), Julio C. Dos Reis (Professor of the Program) and Leandro A. Villas (Professor of the Program) received the “Best Paper Award” at the 4th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2022) for the article 'MCCD: Generating Human Natural Language Conversational Datasets from Online Forums'.
The authors Gabriel Henriques Siqueira (PhD student), André Rodrigues Oliveira (post-doc), Alexsandro Oliveira Alexandrino (PhD student) and Zanoni Dias (Professor of the Program) received the “Best Paper Award” at the “Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics ” (BSB 2021) by the article entitled: “Heuristics for cycle packing of adjacency graphs for genomes with repeated genes"
2021
The student Allan M. de Souza (PhD), under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Leandro Aparecido Villas (IC-Unicamp) and co-supervision of Prof. Dr. Torsten Braun (University of Bern) received the JAACS Annual Best Doctoral Thesis 2021 Award (JOINT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION IN COMPUTER SCIENCE) for work entitled “Towards a Personalized Multi-objective Vehicle Traffic Re-routing System".
Master's student William Felipe da Cunha Tavares, together with his advisor, Prof. doctor Edson Borin (IC/Unicamp) and his co-supervisor Dr. Marcio Roberto Miranda Assis (SERPRO) received the BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD award from the 14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing – UCC 2021 for their work entitled “Leveraging vCPU-Utilization Rates to Select Cost-Efficient VMs for Parallel Workloads”.
Master's student Matheus Diógenes Andrade, along with his advisor, Prof. doctor Fábio Luiz Usberti (IC/Unicamp) received an Honorable Mention in the Contest for Best Master's Dissertation at the 53rd SBPO Brazilian Symposium on Operational Research, for their work entitled “Formulations for the Green Vehicle Routing Problem".
Students Pedro Olímpio Pinheiro, Alexsandro Oliveira Alexandrino and Andre Rodrigues Oliveira, along with Prof. doctor Cid C. de Souza (IC/Unicamp) and Prof. doctor Zanoni Dias (IC/Unicamp), received the Best Paper Award at the “LIII Brazilian Symposium on Operational Research (SBPO 2021)”, for their work entitled “Algorithms for the Maximum Eulerian Cycle Decomposition Problem".
Master's student Matheus Jun Ota, together with his advisor, Prof. doctor Flávio Keidi Miyazawa (IC/Unicamp) and his co-advisor, Prof. doctor Phablo Fernando Soares Moura (UFMG) received the Best Master's Dissertation Award from the 53rd SBPO Brazilian Symposium on Operational Research, for their work entitled “THE BALANCED CONNECTED K-PARTITION PROBLEM: POLYHEDRA AND ALGORITHMS”.
The doctoral student, Otávio Oliveira Napoli together with Gustavo C. Pinton (master at IC/Unicamp) and Prof. Dr. Edson Borin (IC-Unicamp) received the Best Paper award at the 1st Workshop on Cloud Computing (WCC 2021) held at the IEEE 33rd International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing for the work entitled “CLAP-Bot: a framework for automatic optimization of high-performance applications elastic on the Clouds".
Students Vanderson Martins do Rosário (PhD), Thais A. Silva Camacho (Masters), Otávio O. Nápoli (PhD) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Edson Borin (IC-Unicamp) received an Honorable Mention at the XXII Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems (WSCAD-2021) held at the IEEE 33rd International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing for the work entitled “Fast and Low-cost Search for Efficient Cloud Configurations for HPC Workloads."
PhD student Luciana Barbieri, along with her advisor, Prof. doctor Edmundo Roberto Mauro Madeira (IC/Unicamp), Kleber Stroeh (Master IC/Unicamp) and Prof. doctor Wil van der Aalst (RWTH Aachen University) received the Best Paper award from The Sixth International Workshop on Process Querying, Manipulation, and Intelligence (PQMI 2021) for their work entitled “Towards a Natural Language Conversational Interface for Process Mining”.
The doctoral student Kleber Kruger, together with his advisor, Prof. doctor Rodolfo Jardim de Azevedo (IC/Unicamp) and Prof. doctor Ricardo Pannain (IC/Unicamp) received the prize for Best Paper at the XXII Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems (WSCAD-2021) for their work entitled “DONUTS: An Efficient Method of Checkpointing in Non-Volatile Memories".
Doctoral student Samuel Botter Martins, former student at the Laboratory of Image Data Science (LIDS), supervised by professors Dr. Alexandre Xavier Falcão (Unicamp) and Dr. Alex Telea (Utrecht/Netherlands) was awarded first place in the Workshop of Theses and Dissertations at the 34th Conference on Graphics, Patterns, and Images (SIBGRAPI 2021) for the work entitled “Unsupervised Brain Anomaly Detection in MR Images”.
The student Matheus Jun Ota, supervised by Professor Dr. Flavio Keidi Miyazawa and co-supervised by Dr. Phablo Fernando Soares Moura, was awarded an Honorable Mention in the Master's Dissertation category at the XXXIV Theses and Dissertations Contest (CTD 2021) of the XLI Congress of the Brazilian Society of Computation (CSBC 2021) for the work entitled “The Balanced Connected k-Partition Problem: Polyhedra and Algorithms”.
Two 2020 dissertations from the Program were selected by SBC among the 10 dissertations in the country that will be part of the second stage of the SBC Thesis and Dissertation Contest (CTD):
- Parkinson EMG signal prediction and generation with Neural Networks
Author: Rafael Anicet Zanini, Advisor: Esther Luna Colombini /
Unicamp - The Balanced Connected k-Partition Problem: Polyhedra and Algorithms
Author: Matheus Jun Ota, Supervisor: Flavio Keidi Miyazawa, Phablo Fernando Soares Moura / Unicamp
PhD student Silva Trindade, supervised by prof. Nelson Luis Saldanha Da Fonseca, received the IBM PhD Fellowship award. This award is highly competitive and recognizes the quality of the student at your institution.
Students Isaías B. Felzmann (PhD) and João Fabrício Filho (Master) and prof. Lucas Wanner (advisor), received the Best Interactive Presentation award, for the work entitled “AxPIKE: Instruction-level Injection and Evaluation of Approximate Computing” presented at the conference at Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE) 2021.
2020
Doctoral student Rodrigo Augusto Cardoso da Silva, together with his advisor, Prof. Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca, received the Google Latin America Research Awards in 2020, in the Internet of Things category for their work entitled “Reduction of service latency by the employment of fixed-wings UAVs”.
Master student André Gomes Regino, supervised by prof. Julio Cesar dos Reis (IC-Unicamp), received the award for best master's thesis project at the Thesis and Dissertation Workshop on Ontologies at the 13th Ontology Research Seminar in Brazil - ONTOBRAS 2020, for the work entitled “Link Maintenance in the Semantic Web ”.
Master student Silvana Trindade, guided by prof. Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca (IC-Unicamp), received "Honorable Mention" for his dissertation entitled "Resource Allocation in Space-Division Multiplexing-Based Elastic Optical Networks" in the Thesis and Dissertation Competition of the 38th Edition of the Brazilian Computer Network Symposium and Distributed Systems (SBRC 2020).
PhD student Ademar Takeo Akabane, supervised by prof. Leandro Aparecido Villas (IC-Unicamp) and coordinated by prof. Edmundo Roberto Mauro Madeira (IC-Unicamp), received the “Honorable Mention” award for his doctoral dissertation entitled “Collaborative and Infrastructure-less Vehicular Traffic Rerouting for Intelligent Transportation Systems” in the Thesis and Dissertations Competition at the 38th Edition of the Brazilian Symposium of Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC 2020).
Students Gabriel Oliveira and Rafael Padilha together with co-authors André Dorte, Luis Cereda, Luiz Miyazaki, Mauricio Lopes and professor Zanoni Dias received the award Best Paper Award No. Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics http://bsb.sbc.org.br/2020/ (BSB 2020) for the article entitled “COVID-19 X-ray Image Diagnostic with Deep Neural Networks”.
The student Gabriel Moraes Barros, guided by the professor. Esther Luna Colombini received the Best Dissertation Award (First place) in the SBC Robotics Thesis and Dissertation Contest (CTDR / 2020) for the work entitled “Reinforcement and Imitation Learning Applied to Autonomous Aerial Robot Control”.
The student Hudson Martins Silva Bruno, guided by professor. Esther Luna Colombini received the Second Best Dissertation Award (Second place) at the SBC Robotics Thesis and Dissertation Contest (CTDR / 2020) for the work entitled “LIFT-SLAM: a deep-learning feature-based visual SLAM method“.
The student Alceu Emanuel Bissoto, addressing the teacher. Sandra Ávila, received the award for best master's dissertation in the WTD of SIBGRAPI 2020 for the dissertation entitled “Improving skin lesion analysis with generative adversarial networks”
The student Antônio Carlos Guimarães Junior guided by Profs. Diego F. Aranha and Edson Borin, received the award for best master's dissertation in the Thesis and Dissertation Competition in Information Security and Computer Systems (CTDSeg) of the XX Brazilian Symposium on Information Security and Computer Systems (SBSeg2020) for the work entitled “Secure and efficient software implementation of QC-MDPC code-based cryptography”, developed in his master's degree.
Master student Daniel Apolinário, guided by prof. Breno França, received the “Best Article” award at the SBCARS 2020 event (Brazilian Symposium on Components, Architecture, and Software Reuse) for the article entitled “Towards a method for monitoring the coupling evolution of microservice-based architectures”.
Former doctoral student Flávia Pisani, supervised by prof. Edson Borin, received the “Honorable Mention” award in the Thesis and Dissertation Competition in Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (WSCAD-CTD) - 2020
The student Isaías Felzmann, guided by prof. Lucas Wanner received the “Best Master's degree” award in the Thesis and Dissertation Competition in Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (WSCAD-CTD) - 2020
The authors Vanderson Rosario (PhD - UNICAMP), Edson Borin (professor - UNICAMP), Anderson Faustino (UEM) and André Felipe Zanella (UEM) received the “Honorable Mention to the Article” award at the Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems (WSCAD) -2020) for the article entitled “Performance Prediction with Graph Neural Networks”
PhD student Felipe Forero won first place at the VI Latin American Doctoral Thesis Contest promoted by CLEI (Centro Latinoamericano de Estudios en Informática) - 2020. The student held his doctorate co-tutored with Universidad de Los Andes and UNICAMP . He was guided by Prof. Nestor M. Peña (University of Los Andes - Colombia) and co-supervised by Prof. Nelson LS da Fonseca (IC-UNICAMP).
Doctoral students Oscar Ciceri and Carlos Astudillo and professor Nelson Fonseca, student advisor, received the “Best Paper” award for the article entitled “DBA Algorithm for Cooperative Resource Sharing among EPON Customers” at SAC - ANS & PLC - Symposium of the IEEE International Conference on Communications, granted by Transmission, Access, and Optical Systems (TAOS) Technical Committee
PhD student Samuel Botter Martins, supervised by prof. Alexandre Xavier Falcão received the “best student paper award” for the article entitled “BRADESC: Brain Anomaly Detection based on Registration Errors and Supervoxel Classification” at the 7th International Conference on Bioimaging (BIOIMAGING / BIOSTEC) 2020
2019
Doctoral student Rodrigo Augusto Cardoso da Silva, together with his advisor, Prof. Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca, received the Google Latin America Research Awards in 2019, in the Internet of Things category for their work entitled “Reduction of service latency by the employment of unmanned aerial vehicles as fire nodes”.
Former doctoral student Helder May Nunes da Silva Oliveira, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca received the 2nd (second) place in the V Latin American Doctoral Thesis Competition "Protection in Elastic Optical Networks with Spatial Multiplexing” at the XLV LATIN AMERICAN COMPUTER CONFERENCE (CLEI 2019).
PhD student Rafael Kendy Arakaki, supervised by prof. Fábio Usberti, received the 'Best Student Presentation' award for the article entitled “A branch-and-cut algorithm and valid inequalities for the covering Chinese postman problem” presented at ASOR-DORS-MODSIM 2019.
Student Yusseli Lizeth Méndez Mendoza and professor M. Cecília C. Baranauskas received the “honorable mention” award for the full article “TangiTime: Designing a (Socio) enactive Experience for Deep Time in an Educational Exhibit” at the 2019th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computer Systems (IHC XNUMX),
The authors José Valderlei da Silva (doctoral student), M. Cecília C. Baranauskas (professor), Eliana Moreira (doctoral student), Luã Marcelo Muriana (doctoral student), Andressa Santos (master student) received the “ honorable mention ”for the full article“ Reclaiming Human Space at IoT: Contributions of the Socially Aware Design ”at the 2019th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computer Systems (IHC XNUMX),
The student Antônio Carlos Guimarães, supervised by professors Diego Aranha and Edson Borin during his master's degree, received the award for best master's dissertation in the Thesis and Dissertations Contest of the Symposium on High Performance Computer Systems 2019
Student Antônio Carlos Guimarães and professor Edson Borin, together with authors Murilo Guidetti Andrietta and Charles Rodamilans received the “best paper” award from the 2019 Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems (WSCAD) for the article entitled “Evaluation of file for processing high-performance seismic data in the computational cloud ”.
Former doctoral student Allan da Silva Pinto, advisor by prof. Anderson de Resende Rocha and co-supervisor for prod. Hélio Pedrini, received the “CAPES Thesis Award 2019” from the Computer Science area.
Students Ana Clara Zoppi Serpa (Graduation), Hayato Fujji (Doctorate), Giuliano Sider (Graduation) and Félix Rodrigues (ex-Doctorate) together with professors Ricardo Dahab and Julio López received the “Best Short Article” award at the SBSEG- 2019 for the article “A Secure White Box Implementation of AES Against First Order DCA”
Students Matheus Ferraroni Sanches, Welligton Viana Lobato Junior and professors Fábio Luiz Usberti and Leandro Aparecido Villas (student advisor) received the “Second place in the Roberto Diéguez Galvão Award, for best article in English” at the LI Brazilian Symposium on Operational Research (SBPO 2019) for the article: “GENETIC ALGORITHM FOR THE MAXIMUM COVERAGE LOCATION PROBLEM APPLIED TO MEDICAL EMERGENCY”
The student Natanael Ramos, guided by prof. Cid Carvalho de Souza and Pedro Jussieu de Rezende, received the 2nd prize in the Master's Dissertation Contest of the LI Brazilian Symposium on Operational Research
(SBPO2019) held in Limeira, SP, from 02 to 06 September 2019.
The IC Team, led by student Natanael Ramos and composed by student Raí Caetano de Jesus and teachers Cid Carvalho de Souza, Fábio Usberti and Pedro Jussieu de Rezende obtained 4th place (out of a total of 15 teams from different countries) in the 1st Workshop on Open Problems and Hard Instance Challenges of the Symposium on Computational Geometry 2019 held in Portland, USA, from June 18 to 21, 2019.
The student José Ramon Trindade Pires, guided by prof. Anderson de Rezende Rocha and coordinated by prof. Jacques Wainer, received the “Best Doctoral Thesis” award for the thesis entitled “Image Analysis Techniques for Detecting Diabetic Retinopathy” in the Thesis and Dissertation Contest (CTD 2019) of the SBC Congress
(CSBC 2019).
The student Marcos Roberto e Souza, guided by prof. Hélio Pedrini, received the “Best Master's Dissertation” award for the dissertation entitled “Digital Video Stabilization: Algorithms and Evaluation” in the Thesis and Dissertations Contest (CTD 2019) of the SBC Congress (CSBC 2019).
The student Alceu Emanuel Bissoto and profa. Sandra Avila (advisor) received the “Best Paper Award” for the work entitled “(De) Constructing Bias on Skin Lesion Datasets”, at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) conference, at ISIC Skin Image Analysis Workshop, in June / 2019 .
The student Diego Oliveira Rodrigues, guided by prof. Leandro Villas, received the “Honorable Mention” award for his dissertation entitled “SMAFramework: Framework for the Integration of Urban Data Aware of the Space-Time Correlation” in the Thesis and Dissertation Competition in the 37th edition of the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems ( SBRC).
The student Helder Oliveira, guided by prof. Nelson Fonseca, received the “Best Thesis” award for his thesis entitled “Protection in Elastic Optical Networks with Spatial Multiplexing” in the Thesis and Dissertation Competition at the 37th edition of the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC).
2018
Student Wellington Lobato Junior, along with Joahannes Costa (IC / UNICAMP), Denis Rosário (UFPA), Eduardo Cerqueira (UFPA) and Leandro Villas (IC / UNICAMP - advisor) received the award for best article at the “IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM 2018) ”by the article“ Comparative Analysis of DSRC and VLC for Video Dissemination in Platoon of Vehicles ”.
Student Alceu Emanuel Bissoto and professor Sandra Eliza Fontes de Avila (advisor) received the “Google Latin America Research Awards” (LARA) with the project entitled “Improving Skin Cancer Classification with Generative Adversarial Networks”.
The student Marcus Botacin received the award for “Best Master's dissertation from July 2016 to June 2018” at the SBSeg 2018 event. His dissertation had the theme “Hardware-Assisted Malware Analysis” and his advisors were Paulo de Geus (UNICAMP - Brazil) and André Grégio (UFPR - Brazil).
The student Felipe Alves da Louza, obtained an honorable mention from the CAPES Thesis Award 2018 in the area of Computer Science for the thesis “Engineering Augmented Suffix Sorting Algorithm” defended in 2017, under the guidance of Guilherme Pimentel Telles and Coorientation by Simon Gog.
Students Isaias Bittencourt Felzmann and Matheus M. Susin together with professors Liana Duenha, Rodolfo Azevedo and Lucas Wanner, received the award for best article at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2018) for the article ADeLe: Rapid Architectural Simulation for Approximate Hardware.
Students Alceu Bissoto (IC) and Michel Fornacialli (FEEC), together with professors Eduardo Valle (FEEC) and Sandra Eliza Fontes de Avila (advisor), received the “Best Poster Award” (2nd place) for the work entitled “Generating High Quality Synthetic Skin Lesions for Boosting Automated Screening ”, at the International Educational Symposium of the Melanoma World Society.
Former students Daniel Moreira, Mauricio Perez and Daniel Moraes, together with researcher Vanessa Testoni (Samsung) and professors Sandra Eliza Fontes de Avila, Eduardo Valle (FEEC), Siome Goldenstein and Anderson Rocha, received the “Inventores UNICAMP” award , in the Licensed Technology category (Samsung company), for the patent “Multimodal and real-time method for sensitive media content filtering”.
The student Felipe Alves da Louza, supervised by professors Guilherme Pimentel Telles and Simon Gog was awarded as the third best thesis at the CSBC 2018 Awards, for the work entitled “Engineering augmented suffix sorting algorithms”.
Students Oscar Ciceri and Carlos A. Astudillo together with prof. Nelson LS da Fonseca (advisor), received the “Best Paper Microsoft Award” for the work entitled “Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation with Multi-ONU Customer Support for Ethernet Passive Optical Networks” at the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications.
The student Allan Souza, together with profs. Leandro Villas (advisor), Leonardo Botega and Islene Calciolari Garcia received "Honorable Mention" for the work entitled "This is Safer Here: Improving Mobility and Security on Urban Roads" at the Brazilian Computer Network Symposium 2018 (36th edition).
2017
Doctor Alysson B. Prado, supervised by Professor M. Cecilia C. Baranauskas (co-author), obtained an honorable mention for a complete article at the XVI Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computer Systems (IHC 2017) with the theme “Blending theories towards understanding and designing socio-technical scenarios ”(full article; 51 accepted from 157 submitted).
Students Eliana Moreira, Marleny Carbajal and Bruna Panaggio, received an honorable mention in the Design Competition of the XVI Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computer Systems (IHC 2017) for the article Tan2Talk: Using Tangible Interface to Work Alternative and Augmentative Communication via Playful ”( finalist of 45 papers).
Dr. Rafael Auler, supervised by prof. Edson Borin, took second place in the Doctoral Thesis Competition of the XVIII Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems (WSCAD) 2017.
PhD student Rafael Sousa, along with professors Fernando Pereira, Marcio Pereira and Guido Araújo (advisor) received the award for best scientific article in the 2017 edition of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD) for the article “ Data Coherence Analysis and Optimization for Heterogeneous Computing ”.
The student Marcelo Palma Salas, guided by prof. Paulo Lício de Geus, participated in the “Fifth Cyberdrill Applied Learning for Emergency Response Teams (ALERT)”, sponsored by Kaspersky, at the Americas Cybersecurity Regional Symposium, held in Montevideo from August 26 to 28, 2017 and the team that participated was classified in first place among the 10 participating teams.
Student Allan Mariano de Souza, supervised by professor Leandro A. Villas, was awarded the best dissertation at the CSBC 2017 Awards, for the work entitled “Vehicle Congestion Control using Intelligent Transport System”.
Student Daniel Henriques Moreira, supervised by professors Anderson Rocha and Siome Goldstein was awarded the best thesis at the CSBC 2017 Awards, for the work entitled “Sensitive-Video Analysis”.
The student Lucas de Oliveira, guided by prof. Cid Carvalho de Suza and Cooriented by prof. Tallys Yunes was awarded the second place prize in the Latin American Doctoral Thesis Contest for CLEI for the work entitled “The problem of traveling referees: complexity, modeling and algorithms”.
Former students Ewerton Silva, Tiago Carvalho and Anselmo Ferreira, and prof. Anderson Rocha (supervisor) were awarded the “Best Paper” award from the Elsevier Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI) for the work entitled “Going deeper into copy-move forgery detection: Exploring image telltales via multi-scale analysis and voting processes ”.
The student Allan Souza, together with profs. Leandro Villas (advisor) and Leonardo Botega received “Honorable Mention” for the work entitled “GTE: A Scalable Traffic Management System based on Opportunistic Sharing” at the Brazilian Computer Network Symposium (35th edition).
Students Frances Santos, Diego Rodrigues and teachers Leandro A. Villas (advisor), Thiago Silva (UTFPR) and Antonio Loureiro (UFMG) received the “Best Paper” award for the work entitled “Context-aware Vehicle Routes: Outline and Analysis Using Official and User Sensed Data on Crimes ”in the Network and Services Management and Operation Workshop (22nd edition)
2016
PhD student Carlos Alberto Astudillo Trujillo, supervised by Professor Nelson Luis S. da Fonseca, received the award for best dissertation in the CTB / SBC, SBC, 2016.
PhD student Armando Faz, supervised by professor Julio López, received “Honorable Mention” for the article “Speeding up the Elliptic Curve Cryptography on the P-384 Curve” at the SBSeg 2016 event.
Doctoral student Pedro Alves, supervised by Professor Diego F. Aranha received “Honorable Mention” for the article “A Framework for Searching Encrypted Databases” at the SBSeg 2016 event.
PhD student João Moreira, supervised by Professor Sandro Rigo received the “George Cox Award for Best Complete Article” for the work “Go With the FLOW: Fine-Grained Control-Flow Integrity for the Kernel” at the SBSeg 2016 event.
PhD student Carlos Eduardo de Andrade, supervised by professor Flavio Keidi Miyazawa and co-supervised by prof. Maurício Guilherme de Carvalho Resende obtained an Honorable Mention from the Capes Thesis Award 2016 in the field of COMPUTER SCIENCE for the thesis “Evolutionary Algorithms for some Problems in Telecommunications”, defended in 2015.
The gifted student, Thiago Vallin Spina, supervised by Prof. Alexandre Falcão, had his PhD Thesis contemplated with the 1st. place in the SIBGRAPI 2016 Thesis and Dissertation Contest: Conference on Patterns, Graphics, and Images. The title of the work is “Interactive Segmentation of Objects in Images and Videos using Graphs and Fuzzy Models of Content Knowledge”.
Student Luciano Jerez Chaves, guided by professors Edmundo Roberto Mauro Madeira and Islene Calciolari Garcia, received the “Best tool” award at the “SBRC 2016 Tools Salon” event for the work “OFSwitch13: Enabling the use of OpenFlow 1.3 in our 3 ”
Student Celso Augusto Raposo Lisboa Brennand, supervised by professor Leando Aparecido Villas received the “Best Paper Awards” for the work “FOX: A Traffic Management System of Computer-Based Vehicles FOG” at the event “ISCC 2016 - The twenty first” IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications ”
The student Hilder Vitor Lima Pereira, guided by prof. Diego Aranha was awarded the Google Search Scholarship for Latin America
The student José Ramón Trindade Pires, guided by prof. Anderson de Rezende Rocha was awarded the Google Research Scholarship for Latin America.
The student Rafael Lopes Gomes, supervised by professors Edmundo Madeira and Luis F. Bittencourt had his work “Mechanisms for management of SLA for Virtual Software Defined Networks based on QoS Classes II” ranked second in the Latin American Doctorate Thesis Competition of CLEI
Student Atílio Gomes Luiz, supervised by professor Cristiane Neme Campos, received the “Best Article” award at the “First Computer Theory Meeting - Satellite Event of the Brazilian Computer Society Congress” for the work “Some Families of 0-rotatable graceful caterpillars ”.
Student Alexandre Braga, supervised by professor Ricardo Dahab, received the Best Student Paper Award at the event “ICSSA - The 2nd International Conference on Software Security and Assurance” for his work “Towards a Methodology for the Development of Secure Cryptographic Software”. [Published 23/09/2016]
Student Paulo Rauber, supervised by professors Alexandre Falcão and Pedro Rezende of Unicamp, and professors Alexandru Telea and Jos Roerdink, from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, received an honorable mention at the 18th EG / VGTC Comference on Visualization (EuroVis 2016) for his work “Visualizing time-dependent data using dynamic t-sne”. [Published 14/06/2016]
The Master's thesis “Survival in Optical Networks” by Helder May Nunes da Silva Oliveira was ranked in the top 10 of CTD / SBC. [Published 28/03/2016]
2015
Master student Jheyne Ortiz received the award for the third best work for the article “Constant Time Implementation of Discrete Gaussian Sampling”, carried out under the supervision of Profs. Ricardo Dahab and Diego Aranha, at the XV Brazilian Symposium on Information Security and Computer Systems (SBSeg), held in Florianópolis, SC from 9 to 12 November 2015
The student Hilder Vitor Lima Pereira, guided by prof. Diego Aranha was awarded the Google Search Scholarship for Latin America
The work entitled “Towards the Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Automatic Power Meter Readings”, developed within the scope of the master's research of student José Rodrigues Torres Neto, under the guidance of Prof. Leandro Villas and with the participation of postdoctoral student Roberto Sadao Yokoyama and researchers Azzedine Boukerche, Daniel Ludovico Guidoni and Rodolfo Ipólito Meneguette, received the Best Paper Award at the 15th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology.
The student Davi Colli Tozoni, supervised by professors Cid Carvalho de Souza and Pedro Jussieu de Rezende, received the award for Best Dissertation in the XXII Latin American Thesis Contest of Maestría CLEI-2015. [Published on 31/08 // 2015]
Student Priscila Tiemi Maeda Saito, supervised by professors Alexandre Xavier Falcão and Pedro Jussieu de Rezende, obtained the prize for best Doctoral Thesis in the SIBGRAPI-2015 Thesis and Dissertation competition with the work “Active Learning with Interactive Response Time and its Applications to the Diagnosis of Parasites ”. [Published 31/08 // 2015]
The student Lehilton Lelis Chaves Pedrosa, supervised by Professor Flávio Keidi Miyazawa, won 1st place in the SBC Thesis and Dissertation Competition in the Doctorate category. [Published on 13/08 // 2015]
The student Tiago José de Carvalho, supervised by professors Anderson de Rezende Rocha and Hélio Pedrini, obtained 2nd place in the SBC Thesis and Dissertation Competition in the Doctorate category. [Published on 13/08 // 2015]
PhD student Elaine Cristina Saito Hayashi received the Best Poster Award at HCI International 2015. The work is the result of her doctoral research and is published in the Conference Proceedings. [Published on 13/08 // 2015]
2014
Doctoral student Lara Schibelsky Godoy Piccolo and Professor Dr. Maria Cecília Calani Baranauskas received the IHC 2014 Best Paper Award (Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computer Systems), held last week in Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná. Title: “Energy Consumption Awareness in the Workplace: Technical Artefacts and Practices” Authors: Lara Piccolo, Cecília Baranauskas, Miriam Fernandez, Harith Alani and Anna de Liddo. [Published 10/11/2014]
The work entitled “Esteno: An Approach to Visual Detection of Bankers”, authored by Victor Furuse Martins, André Ricardo Abed Grégio, Vitor Monte Afonso and Paulo Lício de Geus, was awarded an honorable mention in the Workshop on Scientific Initiation and Graduation of the XIV Brazilian Symposium on Information Security and Computer Systems (November / 2014). [Published 10/11/2014]
The doctoral thesis entitled “Malware Behavior”, authored by André Ricardo Abed Grégio, under the guidance of Mario Jino and Paulo Lício de Geus, was awarded an honorable mention in the Thesis and Dissertation Contest of the XIV Brazilian Symposium on Information Security and Computational Systems (November / 2014). [Published 10/11/2014]
The PhD work “Illumination Inconsistency Sleuthing for Exposing Fauxtography and Uncovering Composition Telltales in Digital Images” by Tiago José de Carvalho, supervised by Prof. Dr. Anderson de Rezende Rocha and coordinated by Prof. Dr. Hélio Pedrini, received the award for best doctoral thesis and the work “Real-Time Human Action Recognition Based on Motion Shapes” by student Thierry Moreira, supervised by Prof. Dr. Helio Pedrini was awarded second place in the master category at WTD-SIBGRAPI 2014. [Published on 27/10/2014]
The article by Juliana De Santi and Prof. Dr. Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca, “Energy-Aware De-allocation of Lightpaths in WDM Networks,” IEEE Globecom 2014, received the Best Paper Award from the Transmission, Access, and Optical Systems Technical Committee. [Published 16/10/2014]
Leonardo Augusto Guimarães Garcia, former master's student and supervised by Prof. Dr. Rodolfo Jardim de Azevedo, received the award for best master's degree and João Henrique Stange Hoffmam, former undergraduate student and supervised by Prof. Dr. Edson Borin, received the award for best scientific initiation at WSCAD-SSC, symposium in the area of Computer Architecture. [Published 13/10/2014]
The student José Ramon Trindade Pires, supervised by Prof. Anderson de Rezende Rocha, obtained the 3rd place in the Thesis and Dissertation Contest, with the dissertation "Diabetic retinopathy image quality assessment, detection, screening and referral", granted by the Brazilian Computer Society.
IC students were awarded on Facebook São Paulo Hackathon on May 3, 2014.
IC masters Mirella da Silva and Gilvan Vieira took first place in the competition and will participate in the Hackathon Finals in Menlo Park, California in November. The project developed by them aimed to use information from the Facebook profile for travel planning.
Students Vitor Machado (Computer Science, IC), Maurício Bertanha (Computer Science, IC), Gabrielle Dias (Information Systems, PUC-Campinas) and David Aparício (Computer Engineering, IC) received an honorable mention for the project that used Facebook as a tool to find missing people.
The Facebook Hackathon is a programming competition where each team must create and develop a product (or prototype) within 24 hours. The works are then judged by the criteria of originality, evolution during the competition and presentation. In all, 20 teams participated in the hackathon, including students from ITA and USP.
The dissertation of former IC master student Tiago Pedroso da Cruz de Andrade, entitled “Integration of Wireless Sensor Networks with Radio-on-Fiber technology”, was awarded the second place in the XXI Latin American Thesis Contest of Maestría (CLTM) promoted by CLEI 2014.
2013
Former doctoral student Rodrigo Minetto received the award for Best PhD Thesis in the Workshop of Theses and Dissertations, with the thesis Text Recognition and 2D / 3D Object Tracking, at SIBGRAPI 2013 - Conf. on Graphics, Patterns and Images, Arequipa, Peru, 2013. Supervisors: Jorge Stolfi, Neucimar J. Leite, Nicolas Thome, Matthieu Cord.
IC Postdoctoral participant Jefersson Alex dos Santos received the Second Best PhD Thesis in the Workshop of Theses and Dissertations award, with the thesis Semi-automatic Classification of Remote Sensing Images, at SIBGRAPI 2013 - Conf. on Graphics, Patterns and Images, Arequipa, Peru, 2013. Supervisors: Ricardo Torres, Alexandre Falcao, Philippe-Henri Gosselin, Sylvie Philipp-Foliguet
PhD student Marcelo Palma received the “Richard E Merwin Scholarship”, relating to April 2013. The IEEE Computer Society offers 12 scholarships annually. In this first of two 2013 “cycles”, the student ran with 46 candidates.
The dissertation entitled “Mapping of Virtual Networks on Network Substrates” by the student Gustavo Prado Alkmim doctoral student at IC supervised by prof. Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca was awarded third place in the 2013 CLEI Master's Dissertation Contest.
The student Gustavo Prado Alkmim, supervised by Prof. Nelson Luis S. da Fonseca, obtained the 3rd place in the Thesis and Dissertations Competition of 2013, with the dissertation "Mapping of Virtual Networks in Network Substrate", granted by the Brazilian Computer Society.
Former student Daniel CG Pedronette, supervised by Prof. Ricardo da Silva Torres, won 3rd place in the 2013 Thesis and Dissertation Competition, with the thesis “Exploiting Contextual Information for Image Re-Ranking and Rank Aggregation”, granted by the Brazilian Computer Society.
Two IC students were members of a group that won the HACKATON 2013 marathon promoted by FACEBOOK in Brazil; the competition aimed to develop a product in 24 hours. The winning students were: Eduardo Henrique de Pontes Ellery [Master's] advising from Prof. Dr. Ricardo Dahab and Gabriel Dietrich Cavalcante [PhD] supervising Prof. Dr. Paulo Lício de Geus. Both received the mention and congratulations from the University's rectory.
2012
The students below and their respective papers had their papers accepted for presentation in the technical program of the XXVI SBC Thesis and Dissertation Contest (CTD 2013) and publication in the SBC Congress Proceedings (CSBC) and were also classified among the 6 ( six) best doctoral theses or among the 10 (ten) best master's theses completed in 2012 in the country; are they:
Gustavo Rodrigues Galvão Master student of prof. Zanoni Dias with his Master's dissertation: “An Audit Tool for Genome Rearrangement Algorithms”; Daniel Carlos Guimarães Pedronette ex-doctoral student of prof. Ricardo da Silva Torres with the thesis: “Exploiting Contextual Information for Image Re-Ranking and Rank Aggregation in Image Retrieval Tasks” and Gustavo Prado Alkmim doctoral student supervising prof. Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca with his master's dissertation: “Mapping Virtual Networks in Network Substrates”.
Supervisor Giovani Chiachia, doctoral student of professors Alexandre Xavier Falcão and Anderson de Rezende Rocha, took first place at MOBIO face recognition competition at Intl. Conference on Biometrics (ICB), prestigious international conference in Biometrics due to the algorithm developed in partnership with Univ. from Harvard.
Doctoral student Joana Esther Gonzales Malaverri supervised by Profª. Drª. Cláudia Bauzer Medeiros won the award for the 3rd best article in SBC's GeoInfo (XIII Brazilian Symposium on Geoinformatics), in Campos do Jordão, with the article Data Quality in Agriculture Applications.
On 10/11/2012 at the Latin American Regional Programming Marathon, held in Londrina (PR), the IC team “Os Cartolas” won the second overall place, solving eight of the ten problems of the race. The team is made up of Marcelo Galvão Póvoa, Thiago Cavalcante and Douglas Oliveira Santos, and coached by Murilo Adriano Vasconcelos, both with a Master's degree. With this achievement, the team won a spot in the World Final of the International Collegiate Programming Competition (ACM-ICPC), which will be held in Saint Petersburg in June 2013.
Former doctoral student Roberto Alves Gallo Filho and master student Henrique de Medeiros Kawakami finished in the Intel Global Challenge 2012 competition held in UC-Berkeley, with the Start-Up WebProtection “SurfDog” (www.surfdog-wp.com) ranked among the top 8 global teams, being the only pure computer science team.
Former doctoral student Diego de Freitas Aranha who was supervised by Prof. Dr. Julio César Lópes Hernández; won first place in the Ph.D. Thesis and Dissertation Competition, from SBSeg 2012 (Brazilian Symposium on Information Security and Computer Systems 2012.
The award for best article at WSCAD-SSC- 2012 with the title: “Optimizing Simulation in Multiprocessor Platforms using Dynamic-Compiled Simulation” went to the authors: Maxiwell Salvador Garcia (doctoral student), Prof. Dr. Rodolfo Jardim de Azevedo and Prof. Dr.Sandro Rigo both from IC. Also the article “Exploring Dynamic Program Behavior with Frames and Phases” by the authors Divino Lucas César Soares (Master's student), Prof. Dr. Guido Costa Souza Araújo, Prof. Dr. Edson Borin won second place in the same event.
Master student of IC Mariana Piquet Dias supervised by Prof. Dr. Nelson Luís Saldanha da Fonseca received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (IEEE Globecom) 2012
IC PhD student Thiago Vallin Spina, supervised by Prof. Dr. Alexandre Xavier Falcão, received an award at the Human Activity and Vision Summer School 2012, for his poster “Segmentation and Body Pose Estimation of Toddlers At Risk of Autism Using Clouds” being among the 3 best of the event.
PhD student Amanda Savio Nascimento e Silva, and her advisor Cecília Mary Fischer Rubira won the UOL Research Scholarship, with the project “A Framework based on Software Product Lines for Fault Tolerance in Service Oriented Systems” - April -2011 to March-2012, in the 2012 edition.
The XXV Sibgrapi Best Student Paper Award went to Master student Filipe Costa, under the guidance of Prof. Anderson de Rezende Rocha with the article Open Set Source Camera Attribution.
At the same event, the student Jurandy Gomes de Almeida Junior was elected with the best doctoral thesis under the guidance of Prof. Ricardo da Silva Torres and co-supervision of Prof. Neucimar Jerônimo Leite is the second best doctoral thesis for Daniel Carlos Guimarães Pedronette under the guidance of Prof. Ricardo da Silva Torres.
Former IC master student Marcelo Castilho Couto, who was supervised by Prof. Dr. Cid Carvalho de Souza and Co-Supervisor of Prof. Dr. Pedro Jussieu de Rezende, won the 1st. Place in the 34th competition. National Congress of Applied and Computational Mathematics (CNMAC 2012).
Diego de Freitas Aranha's doctoral thesis supervised by Prof. Dr. Julio César López Hernández entitled "Efficient Implementation in Software of Elliptical Curves and Bilinear Pairing", won second place in the Thesis and Dissertation Contest of SBC - Brazilian Computer Society, in 2012.
IC PhD students, Roberto Pereira and Samuel Bastos Buchdid, together with their advisor Profª. Drª. Maria Cecília Calani Baranauskas received the award with the article: “Keeping Values in Mind: Artifacts for a Value-Oriented and Culturally Informed Design at ICEIS 2012 Best Student Paper Award” as the best article in the Human-Computer Interaction area ”.
IC's Doctorate and Master's students group won the 1st HACKATON 2012 marathon promoted by FACEBOOK in Brazil; the competition aimed to develop a product in 24 hours. The winning students are: Carlos Eduardo de Andrade [Doctorate] advising from Prof. Dr. Flávio Keidi Miyazawa, Miguel Francisco Alves de Mattos Gaiowski [Master] supervising Prof. Dr. Cid Carvalho de Souza, both members of the Optimization and Combinatorics Laboratory, Gabriel Dietrich Cavalcante [PhD] member of the Systems Administration Laboratory and advising Prof. Dr. Paulo Lício de Geus and Thiago Valverde also majoring in Computer Engineering from IC.
IC doctoral student Thiago Augusto Lopes Genez, together with his supervisor, Prof. Dr. Edmundo Roberto Mauro Madeira from IC and Prof. Dr. Luiz Fernando Bittencourt, ex-doctoral student at IC and currently a postdoc at this Institute and who was supervised by Prof. Edmundo, received the Best paper award from SBRC 2012 for the article "Discretization of Time in the Use of Linear Programming for the Problem of Scheduling Workflows in Multiple Cloud Providers".
2011
Students Matheus Silva Mota, João Sávio Ceregatti Longo of the Master's course and Daniel Cintra Cugler of the Doctorate course received the GEOINFO 2011 Best paper award for the article “Using linked data to extract geo-knowledge”. All are students of IC and supervised by Profª. Drª. Claudia Bauzer Medeiros.
IC doctoral student Otavio Augusto Bizetto Penatti supervising Prof. Dr. Ricardo da Silva Torres received the “Best Paper Award” from CIARP 2011 in Chile.
The IC doctoral student, Fernanda Alcântara Andaló, supervised by Prof. Dr. Siome Klein Goldenstein received the “best poster award” for the article “Accurate 3D Footwear Impression Recovery From Photographs.” at the 4th International Conference on Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention (ICDP 2011).
IC graduate students André Constantino da Silva, Caroline Castello Letízio, Ricardo Edgard Caceffo, Ariel Vargas and Profª. Drª. Heloísa Vieira da Rocha, supervisor of all, received first place in “Student Design Competition in the Evaluation Track” Graduate at IHC + CLIHC 2011 Joint Conference on 28/10/2011 with the work - “Evaluation of Usability and Accessibility of the Virtual Environment TelEduc Learning Center: bringing 'learning' to everyone ”.
The article “Robust hybrid mechanisms for scheduling of grid tasks”. Written by IC master student Rafael Lima Curi together with professors Daniel Macêdo Batista and Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca, who, according to his supervisor, received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Latin-America Conference on communications 2011.
The dissertation of the student Tiago José de Carvalho was chosen as the best in the area of Image Processing at Sibgrapi 2011. Tiago developed his master's degree under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Siome Klein Goldenstein, together with the research group with professors Jacques Wainer and Anderson de Rezende Rocha for the problem of recognizing anomalies from retinal images. Tiago is currently a PhD student at IC under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Anderson de Rezende Rocha.
The thesis of the former doctoral student of IC, André Costa Drummond, entitled “Traffic Aggregation in Optical Networks with Multiplexing by Wavelengths”, was awarded the second place in the CTD of SBC 2011. André was advised by Prof. Dr. Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca from IC.
The PhD student at IC Roberto Pereira advising from Profª. Drª. Maria Cecília Calani Barnauskas received the Best Paper Award for the article: Pereira, R., Miranda, LC de, Baranauskas, MCC, Piccolo, LSG, Almeida, LD and Reis, JC, Interaction Design of Social Software: Clarifying Requirements through a Culturally Aware Artifact. in International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2011), pp.310-315. 2011. This Conference is sponsored by the IEEE and the articles are indexed by the IEEE Xplore.
Gustavo P. Alkmim, Daniel M. Batista, Nelson LS da Fonseca “Mapping Virtual Networks in Network Substrates”. Award of the 5 (2%) best articles of the XXIX Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC 2011).
Mariana Piquet Dias and Nelson Luís Saldanha da Fonseca, "WiMAX Band Scheduler for Integrated EPON-WiMAX Networks". Award for best article in the I Workshop on Broadband Access Networks (SBRC 2011 - WRA)
2010
The article “Making Interactive Systems More Flexible: An Approach Based On Users' Participation and Norms”, written by former doctoral student Vânia Paula de Almeida Neris and Profª. Drª. Maria Cecília Calani Baranauskas received 1st place in the prize for best articles at the IX Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computer Systems - IHC'10.
The article “Universal Design Principles Combined with Web Accessibility Guidelines: A Case Study”, by doctoral student Leonelo Dell Anhol Almeida and Profª Drª. Maria Cecília Calani Baranauskas received 2nd place in the prize for best articles at the IX Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computer Systems - IHC'10.
At the IX Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computer Systems - IHC'10, in the evaluation competition, in the postgraduate category, the team composed of doctoral students Heiko Horst Hornung, Leonelo Dell Anhol Almeida and Vagner Figueredo de Santana, all oriented by Profª. Drª. Maria Cecília Calani Baranauskas, received the 2nd prize. Place.
The article “Heuristics for the Problem of Unlimited Non-Guillotined 2D Backpack” presented by IC doctoral student Thiago Alves de Queiroz at the XXXVI Latin American Computer Conference - CLEI'2010 was one of the 3 best articles of the event. Thiago Alves de Queiroz is supervised by Prof. Dr. Flávio Keidi Miyazawa and Yoshiko Wakabayashi.
PhD student Conrado Porto Lopes Gouvêa, supervised by Prof. Dr. Julio César López Hernández, won the 1st. Place in the thesis and dissertation contest, master's category, from SBSeg 2010, Brazilian Symposium on Information Security and Computer Systems.
Former IC doctoral student Leonardo Barbosa e Oliveira, who was supervised by Prof. Dr. Ricardo Dahab, won 1st place in the doctorate category in the thesis and dissertation contest of the Brazilian Symposium of Information Security and Computer Systems, in 2010.
IC Doctoral student Diego Zuquim Guimarães Garcia received the award for best article “Using Contract and Ontology for Privacy Protection in Service-Oriented Architecture” at the IEEE International Conference on Digital Information Management, Thunder Bay, Canada.
Honorable mention award: We certify that Thiago Vallin Spina and Alexandre Xavier Falcão received an Honorable Mention for the Best Student Paper award at the SIBGRAPI 2010 - 23rd Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images, held in Gramado, Brazil, from August 30th to September 3rd, 2010, for the paper entitled “Intelligent Understanding of User Input Applied to Arc-Weight Estimation for Graph-Based Foreground Segmentation.”
IC won two more 1st and 2nd place prizes in the SIBGRAPI 2010 Thesis and Dissertation Contest (Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images), in Gramado, RS. The awarded works were the doctoral theses of Anderson de Rezende Rocha and Paulo André Vechiatto de Miranda:
1st Place: Anderson de Rezende Rocha and Siome Klein Goldenstein - Classifiers and machine learning techniques for Image Processing and Computer Vision (Unicamp).
2nd Place: Paulo André Vechiatto de Miranda and Alexandre Xavier Falcão - Synergistic Delineation and Recognition of Objects in Images with Applications in Medicine (Unicamp).
2009
Former PhD student at IC, Alberto Alexandre Assis Miranda, supervised by Prof. Dr. Claudio Leonardo Lucchesi, obtained the third place in the Thesis and Dissertations Contest of SBC - Sociedade Brasileira de Computação.
Honorable Mention in the CAPES Award for Doctoral Theses (2009 edition) in the area of Computer Science for the work of Felipe Paulo Guazzi Bergo, supervised by Prof. Dr. Alexandre Xavier Falcão.
Doctoral student Roberto Romani and his supervisor Profª. Drª. Maria Cecília Calani Baranauskas receives the “Best Paper in the Area of New Research Issues on the Web” award, from the International Conference * IADIS WWW / Internet 2009 *.
The Scientific Initiation work of the student of the Master's course of IC Rafael Auler, supervised by Prof. Dr. Paulo Cesar Centoducatte won the award for best scientific initiation at SBAC-PAD 2009 under the title Support for ARM Architecture Description using ADL ArchC.
Prof. Dr. João Paulo Papa ex-student of IC who was supervised by Prof. Dr. Alexandre Xavier Falcão and who is currently a professor at UNESP-Bauru received the award for best doctoral thesis at the Workshop of Thesis and Dissertations of the XXII SIBGRAPI: Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing, 2009.
Best Paper Award - Best article of the ICoFCS 2009 conference under the title “Automated Malware Invariant Generation” given to the PhD student in Computer Science Rachid Rebiha, supervised by Prof. Dr. Arnaldo Vieira Moura.
Felipe Bergo's Doctoral Thesis, supervised by Prof. Alexandre Xavier Falcão, took 1st place in the SBC Thesis and Dissertation Contest, in 2009.
Leonardo Oliveira's Doctoral Thesis, supervised by Prof. Ricardo Dahab, came in 3rd place in the SBC Thesis and Dissertation Contest, in 2009.
André Cire's Master's Dissertation, supervised by Profs. Arnaldo Vieira Moura and Cid Carvalho de Souza, won 2nd place in the Latin American Tesis de Maestría Contest (CLTM) of the Latin American Center for Studies in Informatics (CLEI), in 2009.
Ricardo Caceffo and Pedro Almeida, supervised by Professors Rodolfo Jardim de Azevedo and Heloísa Vieira da Rocha, won second place in the Tablet PC Accessibility category at Imagine Cup 2009, Cairo, Egypt.
2008
Honorable Mention in the CAPES Award for Doctoral Theses (2008 edition) in the area of Computer Science for the work of Luciano Digiampietri, supervised by João Setúbal and Cláudia Bauzer Medeiros.
“Brazil Women in Technology Awards 2008” award for students Carla Geovana do Nascimento Macário (doctorate) and Karina Mochetti de Magalhães (master's degree).
Fernanda Alcântara Andaló's Master's Dissertation, supervised by prof. Ricardo Torres and Alexandre Falcão, took first place in the SIBGRAPI 2008 Thesis and Dissertations Workshop.
The Doctoral Thesis of Ricardo Ribeiro dos Santos, supervised by prof. Rodolfo Azevedo and Guido Araújo, received an honorable mention in the doctoral thesis contest of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing, 2008 edition.
Jaudete Daltio's Master's Dissertation, supervised by Profª. Drª Cláudia Bauzer Medeiros took 1st place in the Master's Dissertation contest of the Brazilian Computer Society, 2008 edition.
The Doctoral Thesis of Luciano Digiampietri, supervised by Professors Cláudia Bauzer Medeiros and João Setubal took 3rd place in the Doctoral Thesis contest of the Brazilian Computer Society, 2008 edition.
2007
The Doctoral Thesis of Eduardo Cândido Xavier, supervised by Prof. Dr. Flávio Keidi Miyazawa came in 3rd place in the Doctoral Thesis contest of the Brazilian Computer Society, 2007 edition.
The Master's Dissertation of Daniel Macêdo Batista, supervised by prof. Nelson Fonseca, came in second place in the CLEI / UNESCO 2007 Thesis contest.
The article “RAWVec A Method for Watermarking Vector Maps” by Douglas Marques, Karina Magalhães and Ricardo Dahab received the award for best article from SBSeg 2007.
Third place in the Dorgival Brandão Júnior Award for Software Quality and Productivity, promoted by the Ministry of Science and Technology. RCCS - Software Component Sharing Network. Kleber Bacili, Ricardo Anido, Marcílio Oliveira.
2006
CAPES Thesis Award 2006 - First CAPES Doctoral Thesis Contest for theses defended in 2005. Student: Nahri Moreano. Advisor: Guido Araujo
Third place in the SBIE-SBC'2006 doctoral thesis contest defended in 2005. Student: Janne Oeiras. Advisor: Heloisa V. Rocha
First place in the SBC'2006 doctoral thesis contest defended in 2005. Student: Nahri Moreano Supervisor: Guido Araujo
2005
Honorable Mention, LANOMS'05 article “Policy-based Grooming in Optical Networks”, IEEE. Verdi, Fabio Luciano; Carvalho, C.; Madeira, ERM; Magalhães, Maurício.
Third place in the SBC'2006 doctoral thesis contest defended in 2005. Student: Michele Lima
Supervisors: Nelson Fonseca and José Geromel.
Petrobras Technology Award Production category in 2005. Master's thesis work by student Romulo A. Pereira. Supervisors: Arnaldo V. Moura and Cid C. de Souza.
Honorable Mention for article in WPerformance 2005. Authors: André Drummond (student), Nelson LS da Fonseca (advisor) and M. Devetsikiotis. Title: “An Assessment of Measurement-Based Passband Estimators”.
First place in the SBC'2005 doctoral thesis contest defended in 2004. Student Ricardo Torres. Supervisors: Cláudia Medeiros and Alexandre Falcão.
Second place in the SBC'2005 master's thesis contest defended in 2004. Student Evandro Cesar Bracht. Advisor: Flávio Miyazawa.
Third place in the SBC'2005 masters dissertation contest defended in 2004. Student João Piazza. Advisor: João Setubal.
2004
Winning thesis of the Doctoral Thesis Contest at the XV Brazilian Symposium on Informatics in Education, SBIE / SBC, in 2004. Student Marcos Augusto Francisco Borges. Advisor: Maria Cecilia Calani Baranauskas
First place in the CLEI-UNESCO Master's Thesis Contest, 2004. Student Gustavo Bittencourt Figueiredo. Advisor: Nelson Fonseca.
Julio Salek Aude Award for best article in SBAC-PAD'2004.
Authors: Sandro Rigo (doctoral student), Guido Araujo (advisor), Marcus Bartholomeu (doctoral student) and Rodolfo Azevedo (advisor).
First Prize in the CLEI / UNESCO'2004 master's thesis contest. Master's Category, 2003 Student: Eduardo Cândido Xavier; Advisor: Flavio Keidi Miyazawa.
2003
Honorable Mention for article in SBRC'03. Authors: Rodrigo Pedatella (student), Edmundo Madeira (advisor), Mauricio Ferreira Magalhães.
Best article, SCOPES'03 (7th International Workshop on Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems)
Authors: Desiree Ottoni, Guilherme Ottoni, Guido Araujo and Rainer Leupers.
Second place in the SBC'2003 Thesis and Dissertation Contest. Master's Category, 2003. Student: Guilherme Ottoni;
Advisor: Guido Araújo.
First place in the SBC Thesis and Dissertation Contest
Doctorate Category, 2003. Student: Zanoni Dias; Advisor: João Meidanis.
Second place at SBIE 2003 - XIV Brazilian Symposium on Informatics in Education.
Master's Category, 2003. Student: Ricardo Luis Lachi. Advisor: Heloísa Vieira da Rocha.
Third place in the SBC Thesis and Dissertation Contest
Doctorate Category, 2003. Student: Nalvo Franco de Almeida Jr .; Advisor: João Setubal.
2002
Best complete article at SBIE 2002 - XIII Brazilian Symposium on Informatics in Education.
Title: Use of interface agents to assist formative assessment in the TelEduc environment. Authors: Ricardo Luis Lachi (student), Heloísa Vieira da Rocha (advisor).
Honorable Mention for the article in the XX SBRC 2002, Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks. Authors: FM Pereira (student), NLS Fonseca (advisor) and DS Arantes.
Third place in the IX CLEI-UNESCO 2002 Master's Thesis Contest. Student Hana Karina Salles Rubinsztejn. Supervisor Nelson Fonseca.
Honorable Mention for the article in SBRC'02. Authors: Fabio L. Verdi (student) and Edmundo RM Madeira (advisor), SBC and LARC.
2001
Second place in the CLEI / UNESCO Masters Thesis Contest, 2001. Student: Roberto Silveira Silva Filho. Advisor: Jacques Wainer.
Best article award at IHC2001. Student: Juliana Pereira Salles. Advisor: Maria Cecilia Calani Baranauskas.
First place in the CLEI / UNESCO Masters Thesis Contest, 2001. Student: Tallys Yunes; Supervisors: Arnaldo Moura and Cid C. Souza.
First place in the SBC'2001 Thesis and Dissertation Contest. Master's Category, 2001. Student: Alessandro S. Garcia; Advisor: Cecília Rubira.
Third place in the SBC'2001 Thesis and Dissertation Contest Master's Degree. Student: Cândida Nunes da Silva; Advisor: Ricardo Dahab.
2000
Second place in the CLEI / UNESCO Masters Thesis Contest, 2000. Student: César Augusto Viana Neto; Advisor: Nelson Fonseca.
1999
Third place in the SBC Thesis and Dissertation Competition, 1999. Master's Category. Student: Roberto A. Façanha; Advisor: Nelson Fonseca.
Third place in the CLEI / UNESCO Master Thesis Contest, 1999. Student: Roberto A. Façanha; Advisor: Nelson Fonseca.
1998
Third place in the 1998st Ibero-American Contest of Artificial Intelligence Theses and Dissertations, XNUMX. Coordinating Committee of Ibero-American Artificial Intelligence Societies. Mastering Student. Advisor Jacques Wainer.
Second place in the CLEI / UNESCO Masters Thesis Contest, 1998. Student: Marcelo Jesus Ferreira; Advisor: Nelson Fonseca.
First place in the SBC'1998 Thesis and Dissertation Contest. Master Category. Student: Guilherme Pimentel Telles; Advisor: João Meidanis.
1997
First place in the SBC'1997 Thesis and Dissertation Contest. Master Category. Student: Alexandre de Melo Rezende; Advisor: Jacques Wainer.
First place in the SBC'1997 Thesis and Dissertation Contest. Doctorate Category. Student: Marcelo Henriques de Carvalho. Advisor: Cláudio L. Lucchesi.
1996
First prize in the SBRC'96 Master's Works Contest. Student: Nuccio MS Zuquello. Advisor: Edmundo Madeira.