{"id":2128,"date":"2026-08-20T16:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2026-08-20T17:56:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:56:40","slug":"icsports-2026-best-student-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/blog\/2026\/08\/20\/icsports-2026-best-student-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd-Year Students Nominated for icSPORTS 2026 Best Student Paper!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>  <!-- Image --><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin:0px 0\">\n    <a href=\"http:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/sbe2\/2026\/icsports.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width:100%;border:4px solid #d99f53;margin-bottom:10px\" src=\"http:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/sbe2\/2026\/icsports.jpg\" alt=\"icSPORTS 2026 Best Student Paper Award Nomination\" \/><br \/>\n    <\/a>\n  <\/div>\n<p>  <!-- Main Announcement --><\/p>\n<div lang=\"en\" style=\"font-size:1.2em;line-height:1.9\">\n    We are proud to celebrate an outstanding research achievement by second-year <strong>Systems and Biomedical Engineering<\/strong> students, <strong>Fady Nasser<\/strong> and <strong>Ahmed Anan<\/strong>, under the supervision of <strong>Dr. Tamer Basha<\/strong>. Their research paper, <strong>\u201cThe Right Place at the Right Time: Reinforcement Learning for Tactical Positioning in Football\u201d<\/strong>, has been shortlisted as a <strong style=\"color:#d99f53\">candidate for the icSPORTS 2026 Best Student Paper Award<\/strong>, based on the reviewers\u2019 evaluation of the submitted work.\n  <\/div>\n<p>  <!-- About the Conference --><\/p>\n<div lang=\"en\" style=\"font-size:1.2em;line-height:1.9\">\n    <strong>icSPORTS \u2013 the International Conference on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support<\/strong> is an international multidisciplinary conference bringing together researchers, engineers, sports professionals, and industry to advance technology-driven innovation in sport. The conference spans areas including <strong>artificial intelligence and data in sports, sports medicine and rehabilitation technologies, biomechanics, performance analysis, and coaching support<\/strong>. The 2026 edition will be held on <strong>26\u201327 October 2026 in Angers, France<\/strong>.\n  <\/div>\n<p>  <!-- Congratulations --><\/p>\n<div lang=\"en\" style=\"font-size:1.2em;line-height:1.9;margin-top:20px\">\n  The <strong>Systems and Biomedical Engineering Department<\/strong> proudly celebrates this remarkable achievement and wishes the team continued success as their work competes for the <strong style=\"color:#d99f53\">icSPORTS 2026 Best Student Paper Award<\/strong>.\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!-- Conference Link --><\/p>\n<div lang=\"en\" style=\"font-size:1.1em;line-height:1.9;margin-top:20px\">\n    <strong>Learn more about icSPORTS 2026:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/icsports.scitevents.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n      International Conference on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support<br \/>\n    <\/a>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are proud to celebrate an outstanding research achievement by second-year Systems and Biomedical Engineering students, Fady Nasser and Ahmed Anan, under the supervision of Dr. Tamer Basha. Their research paper, \u201cThe Right Place at the Right Time: Reinforcement Learning for Tactical Positioning in Football\u201d, has been shortlisted as a candidate for the icSPORTS 2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,48,45,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-generalnews","category-homenews","category-studentnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136,"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbe.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}