INESC-ID

Category: Highlights

  • Happy Holidays!

    Happy Holidays!

    We value even more the sense of belonging to the INESC-ID community in these challenging and pandemic times. And you are also part of our community!
Happy Holidays and the best for 2022!
  • New exploratory research projects at INESC-ID supported by FCT and CMU Portugal program

    New exploratory research projects at INESC-ID supported by FCT and CMU Portugal program

    The CMU Portugal Program supports the launch of Exploratory Research Projects (ERPs) on a regular basis, with the main objective of promoting Portugal’s international competitiveness and innovation capacity in Science and Technology (S&T) in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). In the 2021 call, from a total of six exploratory research projects supported by this international partnership, two of them will be coordinated by INESC-ID:

    -DIVINA: Detecting Injection Vulnerabilities In Node.js Applications, coordinated by José Fragoso dos Santos and with the participanting institution IT, with a total funding of 69 941,66€

    -DaNon: Supervised Deanonymization of Dark Web Traffic for Cybercrime Investigation , coordinated by Nuno Santos, within a consortia with INESCTEC and FCiências.ID, with a total funding of 62 514,30€

  • Research project ID-GAMING awarded by Erasmus+ Agency for Education and Training

    Research project ID-GAMING awarded by Erasmus+ Agency for Education and Training

    The ID-GAMING research project was awarded by the Erasmus+ National Agency Education and Training. The Inclusive E+ Awards ceremony will be on November 30th.
This Erasmus+ international project, which principal researcher at INESC-ID is Rui Prada, expects to increase the competences of persons with intellectual disabilities and related professionals and relatives in the implementation of serious games for improving cognitive functions.

For more information: https://id-gaming-project.eu/

For attending this special ceremony: https://www.erasmusmais.pt/equidade-e-inclusao-2021
  • Best Paper Award at the Human-Agent Interaction 2021

    Best Paper Award at the Human-Agent Interaction 2021

    The paper “Fitting the room: Social Motivation for Context-aware Agents” by Diogo Rato, Marta Couto and Rui Prada was awarded the Best Paper Award at the Human-Agent Interaction 2021.

  • Science and Technology 2021 week

    Science and Technology 2021 week

    Between November 25th and 26th 2021, INESC-ID will develop activities for primary and secondary schools within the scope of the Semana da Ciência & Tecnologia 2021 promoted by Ciência Viva. These activities aim to disseminate the area of Computational Biology, bring scientists closer to the participants, showing their day-to-day life and what is the impact of this area on medicine.

    Supported by the international project OLISSIPO, two of the activities of the Semana da Ciência & Tecnologia 2021 at INESC-ID will take place in person and one of them will take place virtually through the ZOOM platform.


    Agenda

    November 25th

    15:00 – 16:00 – Open Lab  “What is DNA? Let’s build an origami!”
    Target Audience: 1st and 2nd cycle of basic school students (In person, INESC-ID)

    16:30 – 17:30 – Open Lab “The impact of bioinformatics in medicine.”
    Target Audience: Secondary school students (In person, INESC-ID)

    Day 26 November

    14:30 – 15:15 – Lecture “Bioinformatics: computational and mathematical challenges in Biology and Medicine.” by Prof. Susana Vinga
    Target Audience: Secondary school students (Online, via ZOOM)

    The sessions for schools will be held in portuguese.

    Registration is free but required: https://forms.gle/xsRy7EP5iEb9tfvT7.

  • INESC Hub Winter Meeting’21

    INESC Hub Winter Meeting’21

    The INESC Brussels HUB will organise its Winter Meeting 2021 in Coimbra. You will be able to hear from and discuss directly with major EU stakeholders and the European Commission!

  • HeartGenetics recognised as the Digital Health Company of the Year – Portugal

    HeartGenetics recognised as the Digital Health Company of the Year – Portugal

    HeartGenetics was one of the winners of the “Global Health & Pharma’s Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Awards 2021”.

    HeartGenetics, an INESC-ID startup and member of the IST Spin-off Community, was recognised as the Digital Health Company of the Year -Portugal. The Portuguese startup was one of the winners of the “Global Health & Pharma’s Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Awards 2021”, delivered by the Global Health & Pharma (GHP).

    GHP hosts the Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Awards for a sixth consecutive year and honour the innovation, determination and outstanding levels of care demonstrated by those responsible for bringing to the sector new ideas and products that help the development of the sector.

    These awards are based on various criteria such as business performance, business growth, longevity and customer feedback.

    HeartGenetics aims to use genetic information to improve everyone’s health and well-being. Internationally recognised in the areas of molecular biology, genetics, information technology and artificial intelligence, the Digital Health Company is able to extract genetic data from a simple saliva sample and generate a report containing very useful and easy-to-read information.

    Source: Técnico

  • Interview with Ana Paiva – “90 Segundos de Ciência”

    Interview with Ana Paiva – “90 Segundos de Ciência”

    Ana Paiva in 90 Segundos de Ciência introducing the exploratory research project AGENTS, within CMU Portugal program. Ana is an INESCID researcher, coordinating the GAIPS lab and a full professor at Instituto Superior Técnico. At “90 segundos de ciência” she explains how the project is working to give robots the ability to generate humor and improve their interaction with humans.

    The project is supported through the CMU Portugal Program and combines competences of research teams from INESC-ID in the area of ​​Artificial Intelligence and Social Robotics, from ISCTE-IUL and from the Language Technologies Institute (LTI) at CMU.

    Ep. 1200 Ana Paiva – Projeto AGENTS quer ensinar robôs a expressar e a compreender o humor

  • Call for 3 PhD research scholarships

    Call for 3 PhD research scholarships

     

    Call for PhD Research Studentships

    INESC ID launched a call for 3 (three) PhD Research Grants under the FCT Research Grant Regulations (RBI) and the Research Grant Holder Statute (EBI).

    For more information visit the complete announcement:

    Portuguese version   |     English version

     

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  • INESC-ID researchers among the World’s Top 2% Scientists list

    INESC-ID researchers among the World’s Top 2% Scientists list

    The Stanford University recently released an update of the World’s Top 2% Scientists list, which includes more than 100,000 researchers. 124 Técnico researchers were included in the ranking of the world most influential researchers in their fields, which represents a substantial increase compared to 2020.

    The ranking covers 22 major fields and 176 subfields. The updated list published on 19th October used Scopus database until August 2021.

    Gil Marques, Arlindo Oliveira, Leonel Sousa, José Fernando Silva, Francisco C. Santos, Ana Paiva, Joaquim Jorge,  João Paulo Carvalho, Luís M. Correia are some of INESC-ID researchers in this world’s top 2% scientists list. The presence of INESC-ID researchers in the list of the most influential researchers in the world reflects the high quality of scientific production and the excellence of our researchers in multiple areas.

    Among INESC-ID researchers, an extense list of Técnico researchers can be seen here: https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/files/2021/11/lista-de-nomes_top-cientistas_2021.pdf

    Source: Técnico