Student of the Master's Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering/Polytechnic of Leiria has been awarded the Best Master's Dissertation Award 2022 awarded by IEEE Portugal.
Tiago Oliveira, a student of the Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering at the Polytechnic of Leiria (2020-2022) has been awarded the IEEE Portugal Section - Outstanding MSc Thesis Award 2022, which distinguishes the best Master's dissertations in Portugal in the technical areas covered by the IEEE, during of the IEEE Portugal Engineering Day, which took place on the 25th at Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
The work entitled "Small Antennas for 5G and IoT" was developed as part of his master's thesis, in the Antennas and Propagation group of the Instituto de Telecomunicações of the Polytechnic of Leiria and was supervised by Rafael Caldeirinha (IT) and João Reis (IT). This distinction confirms the excellence of the work carried out, which at the time of defense deserved a final classification of 20 (out of 20) and already had 8 papers published in renowned journals and conferences.
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Currently, Tiago Oliveira is a Ph.D. student in the area of "Smart Radio Environments for 6G" at the Instituto de Telecomunicações (in partnership with the University of Vigo, Spain), with a Ph.D. scholarship recently awarded by the FCT.