5 New Pojects Approved at CMU Call 2019

INESC-ID had just recently approved 5 research projets under the FCT Call for the Carnegie Mellon Portugal program, under a total of 7 research projets that will be funded under this call. These 5 exploratory research projects where submitted in 2019 and will be supported with a total fund of around 300k€.
Nuno Nunes, co-director of CMU Portugal Program, says: “we hope that these projects could serve to explore ideas born from needs identified by the scientific community, in a bottom-up way, that may in the future be a foundation to larger ones.”
In the words of Rodrigo Rodrigues, co-director of CMU Portugal Program: “it is expected that the impact of these exploratory projects goes beyond publishing articles and other metrics. We hope that that above all, these projects lead to the construction of systems to respond to real problems”
The selected projects are listed below.
AGENTS: Automatic generation of humor for social robots
Principal Researcher in Portugal: Ana Paiva
Institutions involved: Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa; ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa; Language Technologies Institute – Carnegie Mellon University
PassCert: Exploring the Impact of Formal Verification on the Adoption of Password Security Software
Principal Researcher in Portugal: João Fernando Ferreira
Institutions involved: Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa; Inesc Tec – Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Tecnologia e Ciência; Department of Computer Science – Carnegie Mellon University
PRIVADIA: Privacy in speaker diarization: Detecting “who spoke when” privately
Principal Researcher in Portugal: Isabel Trancoso
Institutions involved: Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa; Language Technologies Institute – Carnegie Mellon University
SECURITYAWARE: Fine-grained approach to detect and patch vulnerabilities
Principal Researcher in Portugal: Rui Maranhão
Institutions involved: Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa ; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering – Carnegie Mellon University
SyNAPSE: Synthetizing Network Accelerators using Programmable Switching Equipment
Principal Researcher in Portugal: Luís Pedrosa
Institutions involved: Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa; FCiências.ID – Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências; Department of Computer Science – Carnegie Mellon University
INESC-ID is looking forward to work in these projects!
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