Category: Highlights

Our annual Christmas gathering took place yesterday at the Congress Center of Instituto Superior Técnico. Professor Arlindo Oliveira was our invited speaker for this special moment, with a lecture about the future of humanity. The INESC-ID 2019 awards were also presented in this event in…

We are truly proud to announce that Guilherme Paraíso, Junior Researcher from INESC-ID from the research line “Sustainable Energy Systems”, received REN 2nd Prize for his Master’s thesis entitled “Design of Control Strategies for Low Voltage DC Residential Grids”. The REN award is attributed every year,…

Our researchers Ana Paiva, Carlos Martinho, Maria José Ferreira, Raquel Oliveira, and Raul Paradeda won the best paper award at 11th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2019). The paper entitled “What makes a good robotic advisor? The role of assertiveness in human-robot interaction” was…

The Smart Energy LAB was created on October 18th, awarded with the FCT label of CoLAB and a funding of 2.2 million euros for the creation of new highly qualified and innovation-oriented jobs. With the initial investment of EDP Comercial, the project will have an…

INESC-ID’s researchers António Grilo and Sérgio Sabino have won the prize for the Best Paper Award at EUSPN’2019 conference, with the paper “NSGA-II based Joint Topology and Routing Optimization of Mesh Networks with Flying Access Points”.The 10th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive…

In the November 2019 edition, ‘Perspetivas’ media wrote about INESC-ID. This article is an opportunity to know more about INESC-ID and the research work developed at the institute over the past 20 years of history. The editorial is available to read here.

The 1st Seminar on Video Game Teaching ( 1º SEVj – Seminário sobre Ensino de Videojogos ) took place on September 13 at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Coimbra. The event was organized by the Portuguese Society of Video…

Filipa Correia, our researcher from our group GAIPS, receives interdisciplinary research award at 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2019), which took place in New Delhi, India. Our researcher Mojgan Hashemian was a representative at RO-MAN 2019 inauguration ceremony. Congratulations!!!

The radio show ’90 Segundos de Ciência’ interviewed Rodrigo Rodrigues, a researcher at INESC-ID, professor at Instituto Superior Técnico and one of the CMU Portugal National Directors, to learn more about his research on cloud computing and distributed computing systems. This research has the potential…

Perf Servs’s team, composed by Rui Maranhão and Daniel Fortunato, awarded 2nd place at 2019 Qiskit Camp Europe, organized by IBM. The event took place at Zurich in September. The distinguished team developed a solution that allows doing benchmarking of Qiskit framework, the framework of…