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!
