{"id":6303,"date":"2026-04-13T09:26:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/?p=6303"},"modified":"2026-04-13T09:26:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:26:39","slug":"masc-students-win-best-paper-award-at-international-ieee-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/2026\/masc-students-win-best-paper-award-at-international-ieee-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"MASc Students Win Best Paper Award at International IEEE Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-7xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-7xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 60%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        MASc Students Win Best Paper Award at International IEEE Symposium\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n                    <div class=\"cu-textmedia-bgimg flex-1 rounded-xl bg-no-repeat bg-cover \" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2026\/04\/Image-768x432.jpeg); background-position: 50% 50%; transform: scale(1);\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alec Cotton<\/strong> and <strong>Kade MacWilliams<\/strong>, MASc students in the Department, have been awarded <strong>Best Conference Paper<\/strong> at the IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications 2026, held in Montevideo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their award-winning paper, <em>\u201cStep-Wise Feature Selection for Surgical Gesture Recognition,\u201d<\/em> was co-authored with <strong>James R. Green<\/strong>, <strong>Ahmed Nasr<\/strong>, <strong>Georges Azzie<\/strong>, and <strong>Carlos Rossa<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This prestigious recognition highlights the team\u2019s innovative contributions to medical measurement technologies and surgical data analysis. Their work advances the development of intelligent systems for recognizing surgical gestures, with potential applications in improving training, assessment, and outcomes in healthcare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please join us in congratulating Alec and Kade, along with their co-authors, on this outstanding international achievement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2026\/04\/Image-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"Congratulations\" class=\"wp-image-6304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2026\/04\/Image-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2026\/04\/Image-512x288.jpeg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2026\/04\/Image-320x180.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2026\/04\/Image-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2026\/04\/Image-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/195\/2026\/04\/Image-2048x1152.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alec Cotton and Kade MacWilliams, MASc students in the Department, have been awarded Best Conference Paper at the IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications 2026, held in Montevideo. Their award-winning paper, \u201cStep-Wise Feature Selection for Surgical Gesture Recognition,\u201d was co-authored with James R. Green, Ahmed Nasr, Georges Azzie, and Carlos Rossa. This prestigious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":6304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6305,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303\/revisions\/6305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}