RiverCure: a new paradigm in flood modelling and simulation
The second RiverCure workshop took place on 02 June 2022 at Instituto Superior Técnico, signaling the close of this four-year FCT-funded project that brought together INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico and Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente (APA). The workshop included an overview of the RiverCure project and…
Doctoral Symposium on Artificial Intelligence at EPIA’22
EPIA 2022 is currently inviting submissions to its Doctoral Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (AI), with a paper submission deadline of 15 June 2022. The EPIA Conference on AI is a well-established European conference in the field of AI. The 21st edition of the EPIA conference…
EV4EU launches today!
EV4EU launches today, 01 June 2022! With a duration of four years, EV4EU is funded by the European Union in 9-million euros through Horizon Europe, the new research and innovation programme for the period 2021-2027. Studies indicate that the massive use of electric vehicles will…
Francisco Melo completes his “Agregação” in Computer Science and Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
Francisco António Chaves Saraiva de Melo — INESC-ID researcher within the Artificial Intelligence for People and Society Research Area and Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Instituto Superior Técnico — has today successfully completed his Agregação in Computer Science and…
Filipa Correia receives best PhD thesis award in Robotics
Filipa Correia has been awarded the best national PhD thesis prize by the Portuguese Society for Robotics (Sociedade Portuguesa de Robótica) for her work “Group Intelligence in Social Robots”, supervised by Professor Ana Paiva and Professor Francisco Melo (INESC-ID researchers and professors at Instituto Superior…
Nuno Lopes receives research grants from Google and Woven Alpha
Nuno Lopes — researcher within the High Performance Computing Architectures and Systems Research Area at INESC-ID and Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico — has been awarded research grants from Google and Woven Alpha (a subsidiary of…
INESC-ID celebrates Técnico’s 111th birthday with an afternoon of technology outreach
Today — 23 May 2022 — Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) celebrates its 111th birthday while hosting Dia do Técnico, its annual Open Day. INESC-ID took part in Dia do Técnico by hosting games and activities on conservation biology, augmented reality and telecommunications with the collaboration…
INESC-ID researchers honoured with Universidade de Lisboa / Caixa Geral de Depósitos Scientific Awards
Three INESC-ID researchers have been honoured at this year’s Universidade de Lisboa / Caixa Geral de Depósitos Scientific Awards (Prémios Científicos Universidade de Lisboa / Caixa Geral de Depósitos). The awardees lists recognised Professor Leonel Augusto Pires Seabra de Sousa (Full Professor at the Department…
INESC-ID represented at Encontro Ciência ’22
INESC-ID researchers and their work were showcased at Encontro Ciência ’22, which took place at Centro de Congressos de Lisboa this week. On 16 May Professor Inês Lynce, INESC-ID researcher and Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, as well as co-director of the CMU Portugal…
NII International Internship Program (Tokyo) – Applications open until 20 May 2022
The International Internship Program at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, is back following limitations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The NII International Internship Program is an exchange activity with students from institutions with which NII has concluded a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) agreement,…