Monitoring PhD Student Progress
PhD Programme on Information and Communications Technology (DocTIC)
University of Vigo
Date: June 14, 2024
Place: Salón de actos – EE de Telecomunicación
Procedure of evaluation
Calendar
Program
June 14, 2024 (Friday)
| 9:00-9:15 |
Get your badge |
| 9:15-9:30 |
Opening Dr. Rebeca P. Diaz Redondo Head of the Telecommunication Engineering School Dr. Cristina López Bravo DocTIC coordinator |
| 9:30 - 9:45 |
PhD Mobility Grants to Balkans Dr. Edita de Lorenzo KA171-Balkans Coordinator |
| 9:45-11:15 |
Poster session 1 with spotlights Chairperson: Dr. Juan Manuel Santos Gago |
| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee |
| 11:15-12:15 |
Connectivity for a Sustainable Future: The Ubiquitous Transmitter for Green Communication Systems. Lecture by Dr. Paul Tasker Chairperson: Dr. Mónica Fernández Barciela |
| 12:15 -13:45 |
Poster session 2 with spotlights Chairperson: Dr. Miguel Rodríguez Pérez |
Invited speaker
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Dr. Paul Tasker
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| Lecture topic |
Connectivity for a Sustainable Future: The Ubiquitous Transmitter for Green Communication Systems. |
| Lecture summary | Connectivity has transformed modern society (heath, transport, commerce, security, etc.). Some estimates suggest that the Information Communication Technology (ICT) systems, providing this connectivity, could presently account for approximately 2% of CO 2 global emissions. Alarmingly, present trends project a rise to 23% by 2030. To address this concern, many scientific challenges need to be solved to ensure ICT systems while meeting our connectivity aspirations (offering the high data-rate (bandwidth) communication links required for the transmission of large volumes of data) and are also sustainable and address Net Zero requirements (provide improved high energy-efficiency performance). Critical in all these applications is the ubiquitous transmitter that therefore must be very efficient, very linear and operate at a high-power density. This presentation will review how, to date, this Transmitter Performance Challenge has been successfully addressed through both technology and architecture research and innovation. |
| Short Bio | Prof. Paul J Tasker has been working in the field of high frequency compound semiconductor microwave and millimetre wave devices and circuits > 40 years. In that time, he has been involved in their design, fabrication and characterization. After receiving his PhD in 1983 at Leeds University, he worked for six years as postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University with Lester Eastman involved in the design and development of high frequency transistors. In 1990 he moved to the IAF (Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics) in Freiburg Germany, to lead the development of millimetre wave GaAs pHEMT MMICs. He joined the School of Engineering at Cardiff University as Professor in the summer of 1995. While at Cardiff he has establish the Cardiff University Centre for High Frequency Engineering. The Centre’s research objective is to pioneer the development and application of RF I-V Waveform and Engineering Systems, with a particular focus to addressing the Power Amplifier PA design problem for wireless communication applications. He has contributed to > 400 journal and conference publications, workshop presentations, was a Distinguished Microwave Lecturer (2008-2011) and is now a Member of IEEE MTT Speakers Bureau. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, IET and the Learned Society of Wales. |
Session 1
| Name | Committee |
| Aguilar Pérez, Pablo | 4 |
| Álvarez Pérez, David | 3 |
| Beis Penedo, Carlos | 4 |
| Biliaminu, Karamot Kehinde | 1 |
| Busto Castiñeira, Andrea | 1 |
| Busto Castiñeira, Laura | 3 |
| Carvalhido Lomba, Emanuel António | 4 |
| Vahidpour, Vahid | 1 |
| García Santaclara, Pablo | 3 |
| Rodríguez Lois, Elena | 4 |
| Hari Chand, Abhishek | 4 |
| Martínez Luaña, Xavier | 3 |
| Morona Mínguez, Miguel | 3 |
| Vázquez Rodríguez, Álvaro | 1 |
Session 2
| Name | Committee |
| Airado Vilar, Nerea | 4 |
| González González, Jaime | 1 |
| Guamo Morocho, Andrea | 1 |
| Lugilde López, Adrián | 4 |
| Maouni, Seifeddine | 4 |
| Mostafa Hany, Mennat Allah | 1 |
| Muetunda, Faustino Paulo | 3 |
| Otero González, Iván | 4 |
| Ramírez Sánchez, José Manuel | 1 |
| Rivas Costa, Miguel | 1 |
| González Soto, Martín | 3 |
| Román Portabales, Antón | 3 |
| Salhi, Aissa | 3 |
| Silva Oliveira, Tiago Emanuel | 3 |
| Flores García, Fernando | 4 |
List of students unable to attend
An on-line session will be arranged with the committee to proceed with the evaluation
| Name | Committee |
| Carmona Parra, Jose Ángel | 1 |
| Conde Acereda, David | 1 |
| González Castro, Lorena | 1 |
| Costas Lago, Natalia | 1 |
| Platas Casais, José Manuel | 1 |
| Quisi Peralta, Diego | 1 |
| Bessa Almeida, Hugo Pedro | 3 |
| Farooq, Muneeb | 3 |
| Galán Mena, Jorge Andrés | 3 |
| Lestayo Martínez, Tomás | 3 |
| Rodríguez Ortiz, Miguel Angel | 3 |
| Barba Seara Óscar | 4 |
| Delgado Von Eitzen, Jaime Christian | 4 |
| Mayou, Omar | 4 |
| Tarek Tawfik, Hesham | 4 |
| Alves Sousa, Pedro | 4 |
Procedure for the Evaluation of the RESEARCH PLAN or ANNUAL DEFENCE
PhD Program on Information and Communications Technology of the University of Vigo
Academic year 2023-24
Approved by the Academic Committee (CAPD) on December 11, 2023
General Considerations:
- This activity is compulsory for all the students enrolled in the academic year.
- The working language is English.
- A rubric for evaluation is approved by the Academic Committee of the PhD program (CAPD). This rubric will be used for all students. Nevertheless, evaluation committees will take into consideration the actual dedication of the students: Full- time students, Part-time students, etc. This rubric is in Annex 1.
- This rubric will be completed by the Evaluation Committee, and by the advisor(s) of the thesis. In case of more than one advisor, all advisors must agree on a single rubric.
- The Evaluation Committee will propose a Score to the Academic Committee of the PhD Program. CAPD will be in charge of delivering the final score.
- Each student will be assigned to one of the evaluation committees. This assignment is made by the CAPD.
- There will be three Evaluation Committees:
Committee no 1
- María Soledad Torres
- Rebeca Díaz Redondo
- Manuel Caeiro Rodríguez
Committee no 3
- Eduardo Rodríguez Banga
- Pedro S. Rodríguez Hernández
- Ana Vazquez Alejos
Committee no 4
- Roberto López Valcarce
- Manuel Fernández Veiga
- Martín López Nores
Evaluation procedure and calendar:
- All students must prepare a poster. The pdf file of the poster must be uploaded to the Moovi server by 14:00 (CET) of June 3, 2024, Monday. Your file should be named as Poster_2024_Name_FamilyNames.pdf. DocTIC will be in charge of the printing of the poster for those students who will attend the session.
- Those students unable to attend the workshop will let the DocTIC coordinator know by answering the corresponding survey in Moovi by June 3, 2024, Monday, explaining the reason for his/her absence. Upon acceptance, one member of the corresponding evaluation committee will contact the student in order to set up an appointment for on-line evaluation. The students will receive the instructions about how the evaluation will be conducted. These students do not have to send the slide.
- The advisors must upload one rubric by June 3, 2024, Monday to the Moovi server. A positive evaluation by the advisor is required to continue the evaluation procedure. The file should be named as Rubric_2024_Name_FamilyNames.pdf.
- Students attending the evaluation day must upload to the Moovi server one slide of the poster presentation (just 1 page in landscape orientation) by 14:00 (CET) of June 10, 2024, Monday.
- The evaluation by the committees will take place during the poster sessions of the workshop (June 14, 2024, Friday).
- The evaluation committees will deliver the score by June 24, 2024, Monday. Those students who fail will be granted with a two-week period to correct the observed deficiencies.
Instructions for the preparation of the material
POSTER LAYOUT
- Poster orientation should be portrait (vertical).
- Poster size should be A0 (841 mm x 1189 mm).
- The title should be ideally in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, 72 pt. font. Author, Thesis Advisor(s) and affiliation should be in 42 pt. font
- Use colour for highlighting and to make your poster attractive.
- Use pictures, diagrams, figures, etc., rather than only text wherever possible.
- Minimum font size for all text: 24 pt.
- Sections to be included:
- Motivation of the work
- Thesis Objectives
- Research Plan
- Results & Discussions (if available yet)
- Next Year Planning
- References
POSTER SPOTLIGHT PRESENTATION
At the beginning of each Poster session, the students will have the opportunity to show 1 (ONE) slide in landscape orientation MAXIMUM to focus attention on the topic of their poster. Please note that this slide is not meant to cover the whole research, BUT ONLY HIGHLIGHT THE MAJOR GOALS OF THE THESIS WORK.
This slide (in a pdf file) must be uploaded to the Moovi server.
Evaluation procedure with rubric:
| Date | Agent | Task |
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| June 3, Monday | Students | Uploading the poster describing the research plan to Moovi |
| June 3, Monday | Supervisors | Upload evaluation (rubric) to Moovi |
| June 3, Monday | Students | Notice of no attendance to the poster session |
| June 10, Monday | Students attending the poster session | Upload of the slide |
| June 14, Friday | All | Poster session |
| June 24, Monday | Committees | Delivery of evaluation (rubrics) |