AWARDS
Young Engineers Best Paper Prizes
During RADAR'09, the young engineers prizes have awarded the best papers presented by scientific or engineer aged below 35 years. 210 papers were presented during the posters and oral sessions of the conference, whose 72 candidates fullfilling the criteria of selection for these prizes.
Five young engineers have been nominated:
Chin Yuan
Chong, SONDRA, France, for her paper entitled
"MIMO Radar Detection under non Gaussian Clutter",
Anna
Dzvonkovskaya, University of Hamburg, Germany, for her paper entitled
"Tsunami detection using HF radar WERA :a simulation approach."
Beatriz
Gallardo-Hernando, Technical university of Madrid, Spain, for her paper entitled
"Mitigation of Wind Turbine Clutter in C-band Weathers Radar for different rainfall rates”.
Julien
Lafaix, Thales Systèmes Aéroportés, France, for his paper entitled
"A new change detection algorithm for SAR images".
My-Linh
Truong-Loï, ONERA, France, for her paper entitled
"Compact polarimetry mode at low frequency for vegetation applications".
Among these five nominated, the three first prizes are
| Prize |
Amount |
To |
| 1st Prize |
1000€ - ONERA |
Anna
Dzvonkovskaya |
| 2nd Prize |
750€ - SEE |
Beatriz
Gallardo-Hernando |
| 3rd Prize |
500€ - Generous donation of Dr. William Melvin
|
My-Linh
Truong-Loï |
The selection committee, presided by Professor Hugh Griffiths is happy for this female representativity that can be seen on the pictures below.
See you in France again in 2014!
Awards Rules
Awards are presented during RADAR'09 in order to recognize the most significant scientific contributions in various Radar technical areas presented by Young Engineers. Prizes and awards are funded by sponsors and by the SEE, as detailed above. Rules for establishing and awarding the prizes are proposed by the Awards Committee and approved by the Organizing Committee.
1. Young Engineers Prizes
1.1 The Award is presented during the closing session of RADAR'09. The prizes will be delivered to the Awarded attending this closing session. If an Awarded is not present, the prize will be delivered to the next best paper.
1.2 Conference prizes are awarded to Young Engineers who submit the most outstanding paper in the opinion of RADAR'09 TPC.
1.3 The Young Engineers Prizes is considered an international award. Members of the TPC, excluding the Conference Chairman and Conference Secretary, shall be eligible provided they are not party to the decision making.
1.4 Eligible candidates must be aged 35 or younger at date of award; be the first author of a paper accepted for inclusion in the programme of RADAR09 conference and published in volume of conference proceedings; be the presenter of the paper during the conference in either an oral or a poster session. The number of authors of the paper(s) considered for the prize should not exceed 4.
1.5 Selection shall be based entirely on the material submission-abstracts, full paper and presentation.
1.6 Criteria for selection shall be the same as those used by the reviewers-originality, value and method.
1.7 Papers already presented at other Conferences shall not be eligible unless substantially revised before re-presentation.
1.8 The value of the Conference Prizes can be found in Table above.
1.9 A certificate will be presented to each prize winner.
1.10 Selection:
i. At submission, authors cross the box Awards in order to indicate their participation to compete;
ii. After reviewing process, the TPC shall provide a list of those papers, which have been awarded high referees marks. The committee shall then prepare a short-list of a maximum of 15 papers possible papers. Full papers of this short-list shall be distributed to all Technical Programme and Steering Committee members (StC) as soon as possible.
iii. At its first meeting at the Conference, the TPC of RADAR'09 will consider the short listed papers and select not more than 7 papers for further review. This list should be given to the StC and arrangements made for some members to attend the presentation of each paper. Any outstanding presentation not on the final list, which arises during the week, can be considered. The final recommendation will usually be made by the TPC of RADAR'09 to the StC, but if necessary the decision can be made with the members of both Committees present.
iv. If two papers are deemed to be so good that no decision can be reached as to which is the better, the Prize shall be shared between the two.
1.11 The “Young Engineers Prizes” are funded by either a sponsor or the SEE and shall exist as long as this funding is provided.
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