Student & Young Professional Paper Competition Winners

Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 EMBC Student Paper & Young Professional Paper Competitions!

1st Place

Name: Martina Bianco
Affiliation: University of Pisa, Italy
Paper Title: Heartbeat Dynamics is an Output of a Non-Chaotic Dynamical System driven by Physiological Noise

2nd Place

Name: Mohammad Atwany
Affiliation: University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Paper Title: Domain-Specific Progressive Channel Dropout: Single-Source Domain Generalization for Vessel Segmentation in X-ray Coronary Angiography

3rd Place

Name: Ding Ma
Affiliation: Nagoya University, Japan
Paper Title: Improving Electrolaryngeal Speech Enhancement via a Representation Learning Method Based on Integrated Text and Speech Representations

1st Place

Name: Francesca Marturano
Affiliation: Massachusetts general hospital, United States
Paper Title: Biocompatibility Analysis of Thin-Film Titanium and Gold Coatings on Parylene-Insulated Glass Wires for MRI-Compatible Implantable Leads

2nd Place

Name: Davide Borra
Affiliation: University of Bologna, Italy
Paper Title: Automatically revealing multi-domain EEG signatures related to motor imagery using a fully-interpretable convolutional neural network

3rd Place

Name: Alessia Noccaro
Affiliation: Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Paper Title: Characterization of electrotactile stimulation intensity to exploit the funneling illusion

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