TEHRAN (Iran News) –Six winners were awarded during the closing ceremony of the 3rd KANS (Knowledge Application and Notion for Society) scientific competition at Pardis Technology Park on May 12.

The 3rd round of KANS scientific competition, held concurrently with International Innovation and Technology Exhibition (INOTEX 2023) at Tehran’s Pardis Technology Park from May 9 to May 12, came to an end with the awarding ceremony of KANS winners.

The final day of 3rd round of KANS, held by the Mustafa^(PBUH) Science and Technology Foundation (MSTF), began with a speech from Said Hossein Rafeie, Head of the secretariat of KANS scientific competition. He explained the details of the competition to the audience.

Rafiei introduced the 6 fields of competition, the limitation of the competition, the sections of the competition, and the screening process.

He announced that “2 fields are newly added in this round of the competition: ‘Electronics & Robotics’ and ‘Agriculture & Food Industry’.”

“Moreover, a special section is added for an outstanding researcher under 30 years of age: ‘Future Star’,” he continued.

“In this round of the competition, we received 881 videos received from 22 countries,” he said.

According to Rafei, “each video was evaluated by at least 3 evaluators. Finally, 20 nominates were selected for the final round of the competition, out of which 6 winners were selected.”

Next, the winner in each field of the competition gave a speech about their achievement to the audience.

Head of the 3rd KANS Scientific Competition, Saeid Sohrabpour, delivered a speech during the closing ceremony, pointing to the mission of KANS undertaken by the MSTF.

CEO of the MSTF, Mahdi Saffarinia; Seyed Ali Omrani, Executive Director of the MSTF; Hajebrahimi, a member of the board at MSTF; Hasan Zohour, member of Mustafa^(PBUH) Prize scientific committee; and Saeid Sohrabpour awarded the winners at the ceremony.

The winner in the field of “ICT & AI” was Siti Fauziah Toha from Malaysia for “A Bio Inspired AI-Based Obstacle Avoidance and Geospatial Route Prediction Assistive Travelling for Visually Impaired Community.”

Iman Saleh from Qatar was the winner of “Agriculture & Food Industry” field for her scientific achievement “Effects of active phytochemicals of Prosopis juliflora as anti-spoiling agents of postharvest fruits.”

In the field of “Electronics & Robotics,” Azam Karami from Iran won for “Automatic Fault Detection in Power Transmission Lines.”

Another Malaysian winner of the 3rd round of KANS was Nur Faeza Abu Kassim. She was the winner of “Energy, Water & Environment” field for her scientific achievement “BioGel Moz: Green Biopolymer Hydrogel Beads as Frontier Product for Combating Dengue.”

Sina Mozaffari-Jovin from Iran was the winner in the field of “Health & Med-Tech” for “GMP production and preclinical evaluation of the immunogenicity of the mRNA-lipid nanoparticle vaccine candidate Iribovax against SARS-CoV-2 in nonhuman primates in Iran.”

“The Future Star” was a young Azerbaijani PhD student, Nadir Atayev, who won for his achievement “Electronics, telecommunication and aerospace hardware problems with advanced research in optical communication subsystem of both ground and in-orbit nanosatellite.”

The winners received their awards, took group pictures, and left the stage to rapturous applause of the audience.