06-01-2020

Sahid Mumtaz wins the IEEE GLOBECOM 2019 Best Journal Article Award

Sahid Mumtaz, from the Mobile Systems group of IT in Aveiro, has won the 2019 Best Journal Article Award in the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) for his paper “When Mobile Crowd Sensing meets UAV: Energy-Efficient Task Assignment and Route Planning”. The event was held in Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA, from 9-13 December.

With the increasing popularity of unmanned aerial vehicles ...

02-01-2020

Boosting crosswalk awareness with backscatter and vehicular networks

Under the MobiWise project, two research groups (Radio Systems and Network Architectures and Protocols) from IT in Aveiro, joined forces in order to boost crosswalk awareness. The initial goal was to develop a sensor without battery that would increase the safety of citizens, pedestrians and drivers in the crosswalks. A sensor, placed near the crosswalk entrance, would detect when someone wants ...

01-01-2020

PhD hosted by IT wins the 2018 IBM Scientific Award

Having recently concluded his PhD at Instituto Superior Técnico hosted by IT, Afonso Teodoro was the winner of the 29th edition of the IBM Scientific Award. Afonso was distinguished for his work “Mixture Models for Inverse Imaging Problems – Going Beyond Denoising in a Plug-and-Play Fashion”, developed under the supervision of Mário Figueiredo (IT/IST).

In his work, Afonso Teodoro aims to ...

19-12-2019

Several IT researchers distinguished at URSI's Portuguese Committee 13th Congress

Once again the research developed at IT received great recognition in another edition of the URSI's Portuguese Committee Congress, sponsored by ANACOM. In this 13th edition, the ANACOM URSI Award distinguished the work " ISTSat-1 - The First Portuguese University CubeSat”, which, according to the jury, was recognized for its “excellent quality, scientific rigor, clarity and ...