ICT thesis contest 2019
ICT thesis contest 2019 will take place on the 18th of June in TalTech Mektory
June 18, agenda
The competition takes place for the seventh time, including all the School of IT specialities.
ICT thesis competition scholarship fund is 4300€. The scholarship fund is co-financed by Study IT in Estonia Programme. Each category winner is awarded with a scholarship of 500€ (exception is the BSc* level software category). The special prize is 200€ for BSc* and 300€ for MSc. In addition, Cybernetica-named scholarship worth of 500€, Swedbank-named scholarship worth of 500€, Scoro-named scholarship worth of 300€ and Eesti Energia-named scholarships worth of 200€ (Bachelor's studies) and 300€ (Master's studies) will be granted.
*BSc category also includes theses of applied higher education studies.
- acknowledge thesis writers for their academic accomplishments;
- introduce the process of thesis defence;
- involve as many students as possible in the audience, to give them a possibility to gather inspiration for writing their own thesis;
- introduce the themes and level of students’ theses to companies;
- give good opportunities for companies and students to meet and discuss potential collaboration possibilities.
BSc software category | ||
Charlie Chris Karniol | Helisämplite klassifitseerimine konvolutsiooniliste närvivõrkudega, supervisor Senior Research Scientist Tanel Alumäe | Best thesis |
Marko Johani Belzetski | Creating an Application Interprocess Communication Mechanisms Module for an Android Security Training, supervisor Elar Lang | Best thesis |
Jorma Rebane | 3D kraana virtuaalse füüsikalise mudeli loomine Unreal Engine keskkonnas, supervisors Professor Eduard Petlenkov and Research Scientist Aleksei Tepljakov | Special prize |
Charlie Chris Karniol | Helisämplite klassifitseerimine konvolutsiooniliste närvivõrkudega, supervisor Senior Research Scientist Tanel Alumäe | AS Eesti Energia scholarship |
BSc hardware and systems category | ||
Kristjan Soodla | Lühiajalise kestusega raadiosignaali suuna määramine pseudo-dopplerilise raadiopeilingaatoriga, supervisor Senior Lecturer Ivo Müürsepp | Best thesis |
Vjatšeslav Tšetšnev | Short-Term Load Forecasting Using Artificial Neural Network, supervisors Professor Eduard Petlenkov and Software Developer Margarita Spitšakova | Special prize |
MSc software category | ||
Marjana Voronina | Automated Camera Motion Control for Rhythmic Gymnastics Using Deep Learning, supervisor Associate Professor Kristina Vassiljeva | Best thesis |
Aleksei Netšunajev | Sentence Writing Test for Parkinson’s Disease Modeling: Comparing Predictive Ability of Classifiers, supervisors Senior Research Scientist Sven Nõmm, Aaro Toomela, Kadri Medijainen | Special prize |
Gregor Johannson | Technical Prerequisites for Enabling Third-Party Applications on the New Estonian ID-Card, Associate Professor Juhan-Peep Ernits | AS Swedbank scholarship |
Siim Kaspar Uustalu | Automated Detection and Sentiment Analysis of Registered Entity Mentions in Estonian Language News Media, supervisors Senior Research Scientist Tanel Alumäe and Karl Märka | OÜ Scoro Software scholarship |
Gregor Johannson | Technical Prerequisites for Enabling Third-Party Applications on the New Estonian ID-Card, Associate Professor Juhan-Peep Ernits | AS Eesti Energia scholarship |
MSc software category |
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MSc hardware and systems category |
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MSc information society category |
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BSc software category |
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BSc hardware and systems category |
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The period for submitting applications has ended!
- May 21st - June 14th – period for submitting formal application and thesis*;
- no later than June 17th - organizers announce who has qualified (or not qualified) to the final stage;
- June 17th – submit defense speech slideshow digitally to iktkonkurss@taltech.ee;
- June 18th – ICT thesis contest (final stage).
- Documents (application and thesis) should be submitted via TalTech Development Fund’s web form (application can be submitted starting from May 21st).
- The documents must be in pdf format and named as follows: “first name_last name_thesis/presentation”.
For further details see the terms of participation here!
* An application is deemed to be accepted if the thesis has received a recommendation to participate in the competition from the defense committee (see the terms of participation, clause 4); a personal deadline for submitting an application is notified by email.
In case of questions related to the competition please contact the organizers via email: iktkonkurss@taltech.ee
Partners
The competition is organized by the TalTech School of Information Technologies with Information Technology Foundation for Education's Study IT in Estonia programme.