Results of the RMBS Contest 2019

All students and professionals were included in the contest, even if they elicited not to participate. And everybody attending the conference was invited to judge both presentations and posters, regardless of whether the presenter or the judge were a student.

For the written competition, 53 papers were reviewed as part of the paper acceptance process. Three authors presented two papers each. Each paper was reviewed by two judges. 26 judges expressed their preferences in the written competition and they reviewed on average four papers, with a minimum of three and a maximum of seven papers. The written scores were normalized for each judge and the total score for each paper was the average of the normalized scores. After the scores were tallied up, the participants were divided into student and professional groups and the winners decided.

At the symposium, 43 presentations and 7 posters were judged (three students from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras were not present to discuss their posters, but they sent in their posters. However, they were not included in the poster competition as no one was there to discuss the poster).

Thirty five judges expressed their preferences in the presentation competition. Not all presentations were evaluated by the same judges and not all of them received the same number of votes, but each presentation was judged by at least nineteen judges. The scores were again normalized for each judge and the total score for each presentation was the average of the normalized scores. After the scores were tallied up, the participants were divided into student and professional groups and the winners decided.

Twenty seven judges expressed their preferences in the poster competition. Not all posters were evaluated by the same judges and not all of them received the same number of votes, but each poster was judged by at least twenty two judges. As for the presentations, the scores were normalized for each judge and the total score for each poster was the average of the normalized scores. After the scores were tallied up, the participants were divided into student and professional groups and the winners decided.

For the special awards, four judges were involved. Each judge subjectively selected and ranked up to five students as the possible winners of their special award.