Isabel Trancoso appointed IEEE Fellow Committee Vice Chair
Isabel Trancoso has been appointed IEEE Fellow Committee Vice Chair, a prestigious leadership role that recognizes a singular career and unique research contributions. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit…
ID-GAMING: Making a difference for persons with intellectual disabilities
A group of six institutions, across the social solidarity and information and communication technologies (ICT) sectors, have partnered up to improve the quality of life of persons with intellectual disabilities through “serious games”. Preliminary results are in — and they are promising. From 01 November…
“Vencer o Adamastor” awarded to Gonçalo Correia
The inaugural Vencer o Adamastor Prize, worth €20,000, has been awarded to the machine learning researcher Gonçalo Correia. A senior researcher at Priberam Labs and Instituto de Telecomunicações — where he is working on the development of neural network models — and an Instituto Superior…
INESC Lisboa 2022 Christmas celebration: a great road ahead
The 2022 INESC Lisboa Christmas Celebration took place on 14 December at Instituto Superior Técnico’s Grand Auditorium. Featuring talks by Professor Arlindo Oliveira, President of INESC, and Professor Leonel Sousa, President of INESC Lisboa, as well as an intervention by Emeritus Professor José Tribolet (founder…
The December 2022 INESC-ID newsletter is out!
The December 2022 issue of NEWS-ID — the INESC-ID Newsletter — is out! You can read it here. Containing recent news from our researchers and their projects, open positions and some extra bits of content, our monthly newsletter is a great one-stop spot for great…
Accelerat.ai: a new consortium to accelerate digital transformation in Portugal
INESC-ID has joined a wide ranging set of partners in Accelerat.ai — a new consortium whose goal is to accelerate the digital transformation of the public and private sectors in Portugal. Representing an investment of 34.5 million euros supported by the Portuguese Recovery and Resilience…
How and when viruses move: predicting the spread of COVID-19 using neural network models
A group of researchers, led by Arlindo Oliveira, has proposed a new method to compute the spatio-temporal dynamics of COVID-19 infections. In a paper published this week on ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems, four INESC-ID researchers (Mário Cardoso, André Cavalheiro, Alexandre Borges and…
INESC-ID takes part in the world’s largest consortium on Responsible AI
INESC-ID has been announced as one of the members of the world’s largest consortium on Responsible Artificial Intelligence (Responsible AI). Led by Unbabel — and including a set of ten other startups, eight research institutes (in Lisbon, Porto and Coimbra, amongst them INESC-ID, Instituto Superior…
Girls in Artificial Intelligence: a video series of young talent in AI
Girls in AI, a new video series of young talent in Artificial Intelligence, has been launched and is now fully online. Isabel Trancoso — INESC-ID researcher in the Human Language Technologies Research Area and Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) — has, together with…
Diogo Nunes awarded “Best Clinical Scientific Article” Prize
Diogo Nunes has been awarded the “Best Clinical Scientific Article” Prize by Associação Portuguesa para o Estudo da Dor (the Portuguese Association for the Study of Pain). An Early Stage Researcher at the Human Language Technologies Research Area, Nunes was awarded his best paper prize…