ESTEVA-VIVANCO FAMILY PRIZE: BEST PHD THESIS ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Call 2019
- Juan Manuel Acevedo Valle
PhD Title: Sensorimotor Exploration: Constraint Awareness and Social Reinforcement in Early Vocal Development
Supervisors: Cecilio Angulo Bahón (UPC)
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Call 2018
- Emilia López Iñesta
PhD Title: Aprendizaje de similitudes entre pares de objetos mediante clasificación supervisada
Supervisors: Miguel Arevalillo Herráez (UV), Francisco Grimaldo Moreno (UV)
Call 2017
- Mohamed Abdel-Nasser
PhD Title: Development of advanced computer methods for breast cancer image interpretation through texture and temporal evolution analysis
Supervisors: Domenec Puig (URV) and Antonio Moreno (URV)
Call 2016
- Edgar Simó Serra
PhD Title: Understanding Human-Centric Images: From Geometry to Fashion
Supervisors: Francesc Moreno Noguer (UPC) and Carme Torras (IRI-UPC)
Call 2015
- Winner:
- Daniel Abril
PhD Title: Privacy protection methods for documents and risk evaluation for microdata
Supervisors: Vicenç Torra (IIIA-CSIC,Universitat de Skövde)
- Daniel Abril
- Accessits:
- Alessandra Tosi
PhD Title: Visualization and Interpretability in Probabilistic Dimensionality Reduction Models
Supervisors: Alfredo Vellido (UPC) - Ferran Torrent
PhD Title: Optimisation methods meet the smart grid. New methods for solving location and allocation problems under the smart grid paradigm
Supervisors: Beatriz López (UdG) - Luis Reyes Ortiz
PhD Title: Smartphone-based human activity recognition
Supervisors: Francesc Xavier Llanas i Davide Anguita (UPC)
- Alessandra Tosi
Call 2014
- Albert Samà Monsonís
PhD Title: Human movement analysis by means of accelerometers: Application to human gait and motor symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease
Supervisors:Francisco Javier Ruiz (UPC) i Nuria Agell (ESADE-URL)
Call 2013
- Sergio Martínez Lluís
PhD Title: Ontology Based Semantic Anonymisation of Microdata
Supervisors: Dra. Aïda Valls Mateu i Dr. David Sánchez Ruenes (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
Call 2012
- Álvaro García a Piquer
PhD Title: Facing-up Challenges of Multiobjective Clustering Based on Evolutionary Algorithms: Representations, Scalability and Retrieval Solutions
Supervisors: Dr. Albert Fornells i Dra. Elisabet Golobardes (Grup de Recerca en Sistemes Intel.ligents, ETSEEI La Salle – Universitat Ramon Llull)
PRIZE TO THE BEST BSC OR MSC THESIS ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Convocatòria 2018
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- Winner:
- Victor Campos
Títol: Learning to Skip State Updates in Recurrent Neural Networks
Director: Xavier Giró
- Victor Campos
- Accessit:
- Albert Prat Baucells
Títol: LTI ODE-valued neural networks. Adaptation of the BackPropagation algorithm
Directors: Manel Velasco and Cecilio Angulo - Salvador Medina Herrera
Títol: Bootstrapping for electronic health record anonymization with minimal supervision
Director: Jordi Turmo Borràs
- Albert Prat Baucells
- Winner:
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Call 2017
- Winner:
- Julia Camps Sereix
Títol: Applying deep-learning techniques to detect freezing of gait episodes in Parkinson’s disease patients
Director: Albert Sama and Mario Martín
- Julia Camps Sereix
- Accessit:
- Andres Flores Valle
Títol: Speech and Motion Recognition for a Robot Assistant in Dressing
Director: Aleksandar Jevtić and Cecilio Angulo Bahon - Andres Eduardo Ruiz Ramírez
Títol: Control of a hand prosthesis using mixed electromyography and pressure sensing
Director: Claudio Castellini and Cecilio Angulo Bahón
- Andres Flores Valle
Call 2016
- Winner:
- José Angel Casado Pérez
BSc Title: Un Buscador Intel·ligent de Viatges per a l’Argentina
Director: Miquel Sánchez(UPC)
- José Angel Casado Pérez
- Accessit:
- Alejandro Suárez Hernández
BSc Title: Integration of Task and Motion Planning for Robotics
Director: Carme Torras (IRI-UPC) i Guillem Alenyà (UPC).
- Alejandro Suárez Hernández
Call 2015
- Gerard Canal
MSc Title: Human Multi-Robot Interaction based on Gesture Recognition
Director: Cecilio Angulo (ESAII-UPC), Sergio Escalera (MAiA-UB)
Call 2014
- Albert Pumarola
BSc Title: Control de comportament d’un robot de servei per mitjà d’una arquitectura cognitiva (in Catalan)
Director: Cecilio Angulo (UPC)
Call 2013
- Winner:
- Ferran Mata
MSc Title: Obtaining general concepts that represent a set of objects using ontologies
Director: Aïda Valls (URV)
- Ferran Mata
- Accessit:
- Gerard Canal
BSc Title: Comportament de cerca d’objectes en una sala per a un robot de servei (in Catalan)
Director: Cecilio Angulo i Guillem Alenyà (UPC)
- Gerard Canal
Call 2012
- Winner:
- Toni Penya-Alba
MSc Title: Scalable decentralized supply chain formation through binarized belief propagation
Directors: Jesús Cerquides i Juan-Antonio Rodríguez Aguilar (IIIA-CSIC)
- Toni Penya-Alba
- Accessits:
- Adrià Ruiz
BSc Title: Classificació d’expressions facials en seqüències de vídeo (in Catalan)
Director: Xavier Binefa (UPF) - Carlos Vicient
MSc Title: Ontology-based Information Extraction
Directors: Antonio Moreno i David Sánchez (URV) - Francisco Cruz Mencía
MSc Title: Optimizing Performance for Coalition Structure Generation Problems in Multicore Systems
Director: Antonio Espinosa (UAB) - Javier Perez Soler
MSc Title: Implementación de benchmarking en el simulador submarino UWSIM (in Spanish)
Directors: Pedro José Sanz i Mario Prats (UJI)
- Adrià Ruiz
Call 2011
- Winner:
- Sergi Martínez
MSc Title: Privacy preserving in categorical microdata using semantic knowledge
Director: Aïda Valls i David Sánchez (URV)
- Sergi Martínez
Call 2010
- Winner:
- Miguel Ángel Bautista Martín
BSc Title: Diseño sublineal evolutivo de códigos correctores de errores (in Spanish)
Director: Sergio Escalera Guerrero i Xavier Baró Solé (UB)
- Miguel Ángel Bautista Martín
- Accessits:
- Josep Pijuan
MSc Title: A multicriteria decision aid approach for the management of biosolids generated at wastewater treatment
Director: Aïda Valls (URV) - Carlos Vicient
BSc Title: Extracció basada en ontologies d’informació de destinacions turístiques a partir de la Wikipedia (in Catalan)
Director: Antonio Moreno (URV)
- Josep Pijuan
Call 2009
- Winner:
- Joan Albert López Vallverdú
BSc Title: Background knowledge to improve induction of decision structures in Medicine
Director: David Riaño (URV)
- Joan Albert López Vallverdú
- Accessits:
- Víctor Muñoz
MSc Title: Robust Combinatorial Auctions for Resource Allocation
Director: Dídac Busquets (UdG) - Xavier Berjaga
MSc Title: Case-Based Diagnosis in the Principal Components Space. From Definition to Applications.
Director: Joaquim Meléndez (UdG)
- Víctor Muñoz
Call 2008
- Winner:
- Javier Murillo
MSc Title: Egalitarian Behaviour in Recurrent Multi-Unit Combinatorial Auctions for Dynamic Environments.
Director: Beatriz López i Dídac Busquets (UdG)
- Javier Murillo
- Accessit:
- José Miguel Millan Rosa
BSc Title: Agent-based execution of medical guidelines represented in the SDA* formalism
Director: Antonio Moreno (URV)
- José Miguel Millan Rosa
Call 2007
- Winner:
- Albert Gavarró.
BSc Title: Ninots, un entorn d’aprenentatge en matèria de sistemes multi-agent i mineria de dades (in Catalan)
Director: Aïda Valls (URV)
- Albert Gavarró.
- Accessit:
- Javier Murillo
BSc Title: Transport per carretera: estudi i solució mitjançant tècniques d’optimització (in Catalan)
Director: Beatriz López (UdG)
- Javier Murillo
Call 2006
- Winner:
- Victor Muñoz
BSc Title: Algorisme de distribució d’espectadors en grans premis de la Fórmula 1 (in Catalan)
Director: Pep Lluís de la Rosa (UdG)
- Victor Muñoz
- Accessit:
- Alexandre Viejo
BSc Title: Turist@. Agentes al servicio del turista mediante telefonía móvil (in Spanish)
Director: Antonio Moreno (URV)
- Alexandre Viejo
Call 2005
- Winner:
- Montserrat Batet
BSc Title: Turist@: sistema multiagent de recomenació d’activitats turístiques i d’oci (in Catalan)
Director: Aïda Valls (URV)
- Montserrat Batet
- Accessit:
- Laura Prieto
BSc Title: Sistema Multi-Agente para la construcción automática de ontologías (in Spanish)
Director: A. Moreno i A. Valls (URV)
- Laura Prieto
Call 2004
- Winner:
- Raquel Ros Espinoza
BSc Title: Analisis experimental de metaestrategias para agentes negociadores (in Spanish)
Director: Carles Sierra (IIIA-CSIC)
- Raquel Ros Espinoza
- Accesits:
- Maria Aguilar Palacios
BSc Title: Disseny i implementacio dels agents monitor, modelat de l’estudiant i adaptador al MAS-PLANG (in Catalan)
Director: Clara Ines Peña i Josep Lluis Marzo (UdG) - Alexandre Viejo
BSc Title: Estudio de la implementación de agentes en dispositivos móviles (in Spanish)
Director: A. Moreno i A. Valls (URV)
- Maria Aguilar Palacios
Call 2003
- Fco. Javier Raya
BSc/MSc Title: Construccion y Evaluacion de un filtrador anti-spam (in Spanish)
Director: Lluis Marquez (FIB-UPC)
PRIZE TO THE BEST DIFUSSION WORK ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Call 2018
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- Winner:
- Martí Sanchez.
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- Martí Sanchez.
- Accessit:
- Francisco Grimaldo Moreno, Emilia López Iñesta, Emilio Soria Olivas,
Daniel García Costa, Jesús Gimeno Sancho, Marcos Fernández Marín,
Lucía Teresa Hipólito Cubedo, Yolanda María Campos Jurado,
Juan José Medina Bonilla and Ramón Solaz Gil.
Synapsis. Synapsis UV-FPJ Android App. Conec Magazine (article)
- Francisco Grimaldo Moreno, Emilia López Iñesta, Emilio Soria Olivas,
- Winner:
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Call 2017
- Winner:
- Francisco Grimaldo Moreno, Emilia López Iñesta, Emilio Soria Olivas, Daniel García Costa, Juan José Garcés Iniesta i Eusebio Marqués Benítez. La falla immaterial.
- Accessit:
- Luis Espinosa Anke, Francesco Barbieri i Horacio Saggion. Emojis, un llenguatge no tan universal. Video: Emojis
Call 2015
- Winner:
- Edgar Simó (IRI-UPC). Neuroaesthetics in Fashion (Video)
- Accessit:
- Antonio López (CVC). Autonomous driving
Call 2012
- Monica Casabaya i Núria Agell (Esade, Universitat Ramon Llull)
Títol: Could a machine ever learn to appreciate the taste of chocolate?