TRAKE Funding Award 2021
In February 2021 Prof. Ing. Simon Fabri was awarded funds for the project “CONAI”, and Prof. Ing. Kenneth Camilleri was awarded funds for the project “BrainCon”, as part of the project TRAKE.
MCST FUSION R&I Technology Award 2021
In January 2021 Dr. Ing. Marvin Bugeja (as a co-investigator) was awarded funds for the project Sit_Diab - Smart Insole Technology for the Salvage of the Diabetic Foot, by the MCST FUSION R&I Technology Development Programme.
TAKEOFF Funding Award 2019
In September 2019, Dr Ing. Marvin Bugeja, as part of a small team headed by the podiatrist Dr Alfred Gatt, was one of two team awardees of the TAKEOFF Seed Fund Award (TOSFA) in the Proof of Concept category, for the project named iFoot. The project is investigating several novel ideas to assess foot pressure and temperature, and provide active offloading of certain foot areas through the use of a smart insole.
MCST Commercialisation Voucher Programme (CVP)
MCST Technology Development Programme (TDP)
In June 2019, Dr Tracey Camilleri was awarded the MCST Technology Development Programme (TDP) for the project entitled Eye based Control (EyeCon).
TAKEOFF funding Award 2014 After several years of research in brain-computer interfacing, the recent work of a group of researchers from the department in collaboration with others from the Centre for Biomedical Cybernetics led to real-time brain-controlled music player which received widespread international interest and recognition. The group, made up of Rosanne Zerafa, Tracey Camilleri, Owen Falzon and Kenneth Camilleri, was awarded seed funding from the TAKEOFF Seed Fund in June 2014 to develop a product prototype of this brain-controlled device with the objective of making brain control more accessible.
Premju Propjeta’ Intelletwali Għall-Inizjattiva Teknoloġika
In December 2019, Prof. Simon Fabri, together with the rest of the SPEECHIE project team, was awarded the ”Premju Propjeta’ Intelletwali Għall-Inizjattiva Teknoloġika” from the Ministry of the Economy, Investment and Small Business.
MELECON 2020 Student Paper Contest
Mr Mark Cauchi, supervised by Dr Kenneth Scerri, has been awarded third place in the IEEE R8 Student Paper Contest, at the 20th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELECON), in June 2020.
MGPEI Final Year Project Presentations 2020
In February 2020, Andre Tabone and Caroline Debattista participated in the MGPEI Final Year Project Presentations Electrical Engineering & ICT Students with their dissertations entitled Automated Page Turner for Musicians (supervised by Dr. Bonnici and Dr. Cristina) and Automation Enforcement on Priority Lanes (supervised by Dr. Scerri and Dr. Bonnici). Mr Tabone was awarded first place, while Ms Debattista was awarded second place.
DocEng 2019 Best Paper Award
Matthias Miller, Dr Alexandra Bonnici and Dr Mennatallah El-Assady were awarded the DocEng 2019 best paper award for their paper entitled “Augmenting Music Sheets with Harmonic Fingerprints”. DocEng 2017 Best Paper Award Mark Borg and Kenneth Camilleri were awarded the DocEng 2017 best paper award for their paper entitled “Towards a Transcription System of Sign Language Video Resources via Motion Trajectory Factorisation”. Malta Innovation Awards 2016 & WIPO IP Enterprise trophy EyeControl, a project by Dr Tracey Camilleri, Mr Nathaniel Barbara and Prof. Kenneth Camilleri were awarded the first prize for scientific innovation. EyeControl focusses on the use of eye movements recorded through electrooculography (EOG) to provide the possibility for a subject with limited mobility to communicate or control his environment. Instead of using standard keyboards, remote controllers or touch screens, these individuals can use their eye movements as an alternative control interface. EyeControl thus helps to provide these individuals with more independence and a better quality of life. This project also received the WIPO IP Enterprise trophy from the World Intellectual Property Organization. Malta Innovation Awards 2014 In February 2014, the Department of Systems and Control Engineering was awarded second place for Scientific Innovation at the Malta Innovation Awards 2013. The Department participated with the ‘Brain-Controlled Music Player’, an M.Sc. by Research project developed by Ing. Rosanne Zerafa under the supervision of Dr. Tracey Camilleri and co-supervisor Dr. Owen Falzon, led by Prof. Kenneth Camilleri. The Malta Innovation Awards is held by the Ministry for the Economy, Investment and Small Business with the aim to recognize the effort and work by individuals or companies which took a step further in their work and created a unique, feasible product or concept. Finalist at Campus Party Europe Project Forum The department’s project on mobile robotics was selected as one of 20 projects for presentation in the final session of the Campus Party Europe Project Forum held in Madrid in April 2010. This activity was organized by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation and supported by the European Commission. International Conference on Neural Computation 2009 best student paper Ing. Marvin Bugeja was awarded the best student paper prize in the 2009 International Conference on Neural Computation held in Portugal last October. The paper, co-authored with Prof. Simon Fabri, is entitled “A novel dual adaptive neurocontroller based on the unscented transform for mobile robots”. It reports some of the latest design and theoretical developments from Marvin’s doctoral studies. International Conference on Advanced Engineering, Computing and Applications in Science 2009 best paper The paper entitled “Dual-adaptive computer control of a mobile robot based on the unscented transform” by Ing. Marvin Bugeja and Prof. Simon Fabri was awarded one of the best paper prizes in the 2009 International Conference on Advanced Engineering, Computing and Applications in Science. The conference was held in Malta in October 2009. This paper reports novel experimental results on mobile robot control.
National STEM Awards 2021
Dr Alexandra Bonnici was awarded the Women in STEM award.
IEEE outstanding branch counselor award 2009
Prof. Simon Fabri was awarded the 2009 Outstanding Branch Counselor Award from the IEEE. This award recognizes Prof. Fabri’s contributions as counselor of the IEEE Malta Student Branch from 2003 until 2008.
