{"id":50,"date":"2016-05-03T08:15:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T08:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mkiranyaz\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2017-10-03T10:34:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T07:34:08","slug":"recent-achievements-and-awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mkiranyaz\/recent-achievements-and-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Achievements and Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-61 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mkiranyaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/572\/2016\/05\/Awards2-5ea930-300x98.jpg\" alt=\"Awards2-5ea930\" width=\"297\" height=\"97\" srcset=\"https:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mkiranyaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/572\/2016\/05\/Awards2-5ea930-300x98.jpg 300w, https:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mkiranyaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/572\/2016\/05\/Awards2-5ea930-768x250.jpg 768w, https:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mkiranyaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/572\/2016\/05\/Awards2-5ea930.jpg 997w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 2017: My research team won the 1<sup>st<\/sup> place in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinc.org\/physionet-cinc-challenge-awards\/\">Physionet Challenge 2017<\/a> (a.k.a. AliveCor)\u00a0among 75 teams.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/physionet.org\/\">Physionet<\/a> is the grand forum of \u201cComputing in Cardiology\u201d which offers free access via the web to large and growing collections of recorded physiologic signals and related open-source software.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>September 2017: The Finnish science magazine Rajapinta (Interface) published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tut.fi\/rajapinta\/artikkelit\/2017\/3\/sydamen-rytmihairiot-paljastuvat--jo-ensimetreilla\">an interview<\/a> with me about my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/srep\/\"><em>Nature<\/em> &#8211; SREP<\/a> article,\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-017-09544-z\">Personalized Monitoring and Advance Warning System for Cardiac Arrhythmias<\/a>&#8220;. (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tut.fi\/en\/about-tut\/news-and-events\/X227115C2\">in English<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>August 2017: My article<\/strong>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0022460X16306204\"><em>Real-Time Vibration-Based Structural Damage Detection Using One-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Networks<\/em><\/a><strong><em>,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong>became the\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.journals.elsevier.com\/journal-of-sound-and-vibration\/most-downloaded-articles\"><strong>3<sup>rd<\/sup> most popular paper<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0of the <em>Journal of Sound and Vibration (Elsevier)<\/em> journal<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>July 2017: The <\/strong>PhD<strong> theses that I supervised, \u201cQuantum Cuts, A Quantum Mechanical Spectral Graph Partitioning Method for Salient Object Detection\u201d, won the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scandinavian_Conference_on_Image_Analysis\">Best Nordic <\/a>PhD\u00a0Thesis Award in SCIA 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>March 2017: Our\u00a0Journal of Sound and Vibration (Elsevier) article<\/strong>, <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0022460X16306204\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Real-Time Vibration-Based Structural Damage Detection Using One-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Networks<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong>became the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journals.elsevier.com\/journal-of-sound-and-vibration\/most-downloaded-articles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">5th most popular paper<\/a> of the journal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>January\u00a02017: Our\u00a0IEEE Transaction article, <a href=\"http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/7202837\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Real-Time Patient-Specific ECG Classification by 1D Convolutional Neural Networks<\/em><\/a>\u00a0became the <a href=\"http:\/\/campaign.r20.constantcontact.com\/render?m=1113477036106&amp;ca=90c30d09-eac9-4584-9215-ff9151928ef0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">5th most popular paper<\/a> of the year 2016 in <em>IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Engineering<\/em>. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>September 2016: My research team won\u00a0the 2nd place in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinc.org\/physionet-cinc-challenge-awards\/\">Physionet Challenge 2016<\/a>\u00a0among 48 teams. <a href=\"https:\/\/physionet.org\/\">Physionet<\/a> is the grand forum of \u201cComputing in Cardiology\u201d which offers free access via the web to large and growing collections of recorded physiologic signals and related open-source software.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>April 2015: We got the 3rd place in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaggle.com\/c\/inria-bci-challenge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IEEE Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Challenge@NER 2015<\/a> among 280 teams.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2010-2015: The article, &#8220;<em>Evolutionary Artificial Neural Networks by Multi-Dimensional Particle Swarm Optimization<\/em>&#8220;,\u00a0\u00a0is the 4th most cited paper in the Elsevier\u00a0Neural Networks journal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>September 2015: The paper, &#8220;<em>Visual Saliency by Extended Quantum Cuts<\/em>&#8220;, was nominated for the Best Paper Award in\u00a0Int. Conf. on Image Processing, (ICIP 2015).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>August 2014: The paper, &#8220;<em>Automatic Object Segmentation by Quantum Cuts<\/em>&#8220;, won the IBM Best Student Paper Award at Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2014).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>September 2013: The paper, &#8220;<em>QUANTUM MECHANICS IN COMPUTER VISION: AUTOMATIC OBJECT EXTRACTION<\/em>&#8220;, was nominated for the Best Paper Award in\u00a0Int. Conf. on Image Processing, (ICIP 2013).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2014: MUVIS systems ranked 2nd in MSR-Bing Image Retrieval Challenge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2013: MUVIS solution won the 3rd place in Competition on Counter Measures to 2D Face Spoofing Attacks\u00a0 at ICB 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>June 2013: The paper, &#8220;<em>Evolutionary Feature Synthesis by Multi-dimensional Particle Swarm Optimization<\/em>&#8221; won the Best Paper Award at \u00a0EUVIP.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>November 11, 2012: <a href=\"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/mkiranyaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/572\/2016\/05\/IMG_20150831_0001.jpg\">Alya Nickole Kiranyaz<\/a> was born.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; October 2017: My research team won the 1st place in\u00a0Physionet Challenge 2017 (a.k.a. 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