Student Paper Award

ISITA 2018 Student Paper Award will be given to several outstanding papers authored by students. Papers eligible for the award should satisfy:

  • The first author is a student of an educational institute at the time of submission. 
  • The first author is the presenter. 

The criterion for the award includes both content and presentation. The award committee decides the award winners with the help of ISITA 2018 Technical Program Committee. The award winners will be announced in the symposium banquet.

Award Winners

Ferdinand Blomqvist, Department of Mathematics and System Analysis, Aalto University (Finland)

On Quotient Metrics and Decoding Problems

Mahesh Babu Vaddi, Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science

Reduced Dimensional Optimal Vector Linear Index Codes for Index Coding Problems with Symmetric Neighboring and Consecutive Side-information
(Co-authored with B. Sundar Rajan)

Mohammad Nur Hasan, School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)

An Efficient Strategy for Applying Compute-and-Forward to the MARC
(Co-authored with Brian M. Kurkoski)

Koutaro Okada, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba

A Construction of the (4, n)-Threshold Visual Cryptography Scheme Using a 3-Design
(Co-authored with Hiroki Koga)