2026 Cycle 1 IEEE SPS Chapter Initiative: SPS Tech

IEEE SPS Student Branch Chapter Universidade de Coimbra

16-17 June 2026

About the Initiative

Join us for the SPS Tech 2026, organised by the IEEE VTS & SPS Student Branch Chapter of the University of Coimbra and supported by the IEEE SPS Chapter Portugal. This two-day event at DEEC–FCTUC will feature talks from academia and industry on vehicular technology, 5G/6G communications, and modern signal processing. MSc and PhD students are invited to present posters and demos, share their work, and network with researchers and professionals. We look forward to welcoming you to Coimbra!

Registration

Registrations are now closed. Thank you to everyone who signed up!

Place

The event will take place at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (DEEC), University of Coimbra, Polo II.

📍 Room: T4.4

Location

Event Details

  • Oral Presentations: Each presentation should be approximately 4–5 minutes long. We highly encourage you to present in English.
  • Poster Session: Authors will be expected to present and defend their work. While we encourage presentations in English, the poster defense can be conducted in Portuguese.
  • Poster Printing: If you do not have your poster printed, please notify the organizing committee at least one week in advance so we can arrange the printing for you.
  • Evaluation: Oral presentations and posters will be evaluated by a jury panel composed of 3 members from the IEEE and DEEC.

Awards

🥇 Cedrico Alexandre Patriarca Louro
🥈 Denir Valencio de Campos
🥉 Aram El Heni

Program

Day 1 — 16 June 2026
14h15 Registration & Opening
14h30 Workshop How to Write a Scientific Paper Mohamed Amine Ben Helal
15h30 Coffee Break
15h50 Workshop How to Make an Oral Presentation Esmeralda Faria
17h00 Closing
Day 2 — 17 June 2026
09h00 Registration & Opening
09h15 Talk Henrique Gomes The Signal Processing Research Spectrum at Instituto de Telecomunicações
10h15 Oral Presentations
11h10 Coffee Break & Posters
11h30 Talk João Bimbo Making contact: Collision Localization in Robot Manipulators
12h10 Lunch
14h00 Talk João Bimbo Former Student
14h30 Oral Presentations (CoDEEC)
16h00 Coffee Break
16h30 Posters (CoDEEC)
17h30 Closing and Award Ceremony

Oral Presentations — Morning Session

Day 2 · 17 June 2026 · 10h15–11h10
10h15Ana João Rodrigues e Sousa
10h20Aram El Henl
10h25Guilherme Lins de Araújo
10h30João Pedro Mateus Simões
10h35José Manuel Paiva de Morais Santos Ferreira
10h40Kristjan Padovan Savic
10h45Marco Minchella
10h50Maria Inês Bento Neves
10h55Telmo Paes Barreto Junior
11h00Yasmine Ben Slim
11h05Youssef Jaziri

Organizers

IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) - Coimbra Student Branch Chapter

vtsucieee@gmail.com

Catarina Bispo — Chair

José Casca — Vice-Chair

Luís Pinto — Treasurer

Prof. Luís Cruz (IT-Coimbra)

lcruz@deec.uc.pt

Student Branch Universidade de Coimbra

ieee-sb@fct.uc.pt

Sponsors and Support

IEEE Logo SPS Portugal Logo SPS Logo DEEC Logo IEEE SB Logo IT Logo ISR Logo RAS SB Logo University of Coimbra Logo FCTUC

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