Awards and Distinctions

Embedded Systems Group members rewarded through more than 50 awards and distinctions including:

• UCC Research Award: Best supervisor, 2023

• MIDAS Ireland Best Student Project Competition, for Quantum Computing and EDA, 2022

• IEEE BHI-BSN Best Paper Award competition (third prize), for "An implementation of an AI-assisted sonification algorithm for neonatal EEG seizure detection on an edge device", 2022

• ICE Reed and Mallick Medal in Urban Planning and Design, 2021

• Best Engineeing@UCC paper for congenital heart disease detection using PCG and ML, 2021

• Best Commercialisation Idea/Best Business (Neurobell project),  IGNITE and Bank of Ireland, 2020

• UCC President Award for Teaching and Learning, 2019

• Best Paper Award, IEEE, Irish Signals and Systems on sonification of EEG, 2018

• Collaboration Achievement Award at Irish Labs Awards 2018 (Brain Stethoscope Project)

• 2nd Prize at Bite Size Thesis competition as part of SFI Infant Centre Research Day, 2017

• 2nd Prize TechStars Awards, New York, 2017

• Irish Signals and Systems Best Poster Award, Killarney, 2017

• Irish Signals and Systems Second Prize in the Best Paper Competition, Killarney, 2017

• Google Anita Borg Award, 2016

• Irish Engineering Lab of the Year, 2016 

• one of the most downloaded papers in the history of IEEE Sensors journal - smart lights using zigbee (2016)

• 2nd best poster award, I2MTC, 2015 : smart bee hives

• 2nd prize MIDAS Ireland Design contest (undergraduate students), 2015 : smart bee hives

• 1st prize in the IEEE/IBM Smarter Planet Challenge 2014 with the project (2B) or !(2B): project co-supervised with Dr. Padraig Whelan(School of BEES) and Dr. Edward Lahiff(Food Business and Development) : smart bee hives

• 1st prize in the Irish Intervarsities Mathematics Contest 2014.

• 2nd prize in the ACM Irish Collegiate Programming Competition 2014.

• 2nd prize MIDAS Ireland -Third Level Project Competition, 2014. : ultra low power digital IC design

• 2nd prize in the IEEE/IBM Smarter Planet Challenge 2013 with the project U-Play. : smart toys (micro robots)

• 1st prize in the IEEE/IBM Smarter Planet Challenge 2011 with the project i-Care: improved health care for disadvantaged communities

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