XoveTIC

Awards

In this edition, seven prizes will be awarded to those works best valued for their quality, excellence and originality.

The prizes to be awarded, with their chairs or funding entities are:

  • R Chair Award: “To the most relevant in the field of security, understood in a broad sense, both cybersecurity in information and communications technologies and security issues applied to other areas”.
  • Aldaba Chair Award – WIB (Women, ICT & Business): “To the most relevant leadership as first author by a woman”.
  • ITG– ARQA Award: “To the most relevant work in quantum technologies”.
  • CPEIG Award: “To the best work in which the first author is a student or a person with a degree in Computer Engineering”.
  • ICT Cluster Award: “To the best poster”.
  • ICT Cluster Award: “To the best oral communication”.
  • CITIC Foundation Award: “To the most relevant in basic or theoretical research”.
  • NTT Data Chair Award: “To the most relevant in the field of diversity, social economy and promotion of equality”.
  • Ilustre Colegio Provincial de Abogados de A Coruña – ICACOR Award: “To the most relevant work in the ethical-legal field”

XoveTIC 2025

R Chair Award

R Chair Award: “To the most relevant in the field of security, understood in a broad sense, both cybersecurity in information and communications technologies and security issues applied to other areas”.

To: Daniel Feito Pin and José Losada, for their work “Developing an Open Source Tool for Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) Attacks on the MQTT Protocol”.

Award presented by: Alfredo Ramos, R and MASMOVIL director.

NTT DATA Chair Award

NTT Data Chair Award: “To the most relevant in the field of diversity, social economy and promotion of equality”.

To: Diego Cordero Contreras, Rubén Grande, Vanesa Herrera, Mario Jiménez and Javier Albusac, for their work “VR-ADAPT: A Virtual Reality Environment for Skill Development in New Wheelchair Users with Spinal Cord Injuries”.

Award presented by: Luis María Hervella Nieto, Director of the Chair NTT DATA at Universidade da Coruña.

ALDABA - WIB Chair Award

Aldaba – WIB (Women, ICT & Business) Chair Award: “To the most relevant leadership as first author by a woman”.

To: Anabel Díaz-Labrador, Ángel Delgado, Héctor J.Pérez Iglesias, Óscar Fontenla Romero and Jose Luis Calvo Rolle, for their work “Quadruped robot control using immersive interfaces in emergency contexts”.

Award presented by: Virginia Mato Abad, director of the Chair ALDABA-WIB at Universidade da Coruña.

ICACOR Award

Ilustre Colexio Provincial de Avogados de A Coruña – ICACOR Award: “To the most relevant work in the ethical-legal field”.

To: Vera Iglesias Losada por her work “Algoritmos verdes: impacto ambiental, marco jurídico y ético en la inteligencia artificial”.

Award presented by: Digna Braña Iglesia, Director of the School of Legal Practice and Coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Access to the Legal Profession and Court Representation.

ITG - ARQA Award

ITG– ARQA Award: “To the most relevant work in quantum technologies”.

To: Fernando Alonso and Álvaro Leitao Rodríguez for their work “Quantum Machine Learning for Financial Applications”.

Award presented by: Mateo Alonso, researcher in the Quantum Team at ITG and a predoctoral researcher.

CPEIG Award

CPEIG Award: “To the best work in which the first author is a student or a person with a degree in Computer Engineering”.

To: Xoel Penas, Javier Taibo, Jose A. Iglesias-Guitian and Emilio J. Padrón for their work “Immersive Visualization of Home Renovations for Accessibility Using Virtual Reality”.

Award presented by: Fernando Suárez Lorenzo, president of CPEIG.

 

ICT Cluster Award to the best poster

ICT Cluster Award: “To the best poster”

To: Paula de Santos Dorrego, Jorge Rivadulla Brey, Javier Andrade Garda and Víctor Carneiro Diaz for their work “HATHOR – Accessible Automation and Interaction in a Hydroponic Garden for People with Disabilities”.

Award presented by: Andrés Sastre, Project Director at Clúster TIC.

ICT Cluster Award to the best oral communication

ICT Cluster Award: “To the best oral communication”

To: María Bugallo Porto and Domingo Morales González for their work “Methodological Advances in Robust Small Area Estimation”.

Award presented by: Andrés Sastre, Project Director at Clúster TIC.

CITIC Foundation Award

CITIC Foundation Award: “To the most relevant in basic or theoretical research”.

To: Fernando Mondragón Sampedro and Diego Álvarez Estévez for their work “Quantum and classical kernels applied to classification of unbalanced datasets”.

Award presented by: Antonio Rojo Álvarez, Managing Director of the CITIC Galicia Foundation, and Juan Ignacio Borrego Vázquez, Member of the CITIC Foundation Board.

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