INESC-ID has a new Board of Directors, for the biennium 2020-2021, composed by Inês Lynce (Chairman), João Paulo Carvalho, Jorge Fernandes, Rodrigo Rodrigues, and José Pimentel.
Remains in the coordination of the Scientific Council: Isabel Trancoso, Paolo Romano and Vasco Manquinho.
Researchers António Rito Silva and Duarte Oliveira were awarded the Best Student Paper Award at the 21st International Conference On Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2019) for their paper entitled ‘Social Media Aware Virtual Editions For The Book of Disquiet’.
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 the following categories:
PhD student: Naércio Magaia
Junior Researcher: Sergio Jimenez
Researcher: Ana Paiva
More info about the nominees can be seen here.
This event is simultaneously the wrap up of the institutional 20th anniversary.
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, since 1995, to the best Master’s thesis in the area of energy, developed by students from Portuguese universities.
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 presented by Raquel Oliveira at the conference, which took place between November 26th-29th, in Madrid, Spain.
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 opening funding of 4.4 million euros to develop innovative and market oriented solutions.
INESC-ID is a partner of the Smart Energy LAB. Together with EDP Comercial, Accenture, Instituto Superior Técnico, Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa, Universidade de Coimbra, INESC TEC, we expect to succeed in developing technology solutions and in designing products that support customer needs in areas such as mobility, storage, flexibility management or community energy management.
On November 20th, a kick-off workshop was held at EDP’s office, attended by members of the partners involved. The final result was the identification of a set of key issues around the theme of Energy. By January 2020, it is expected that a series of meetings will be set up by working groups to tackle each of these key issues.
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 Networks (EUSPN-2019) took place between the 4th and 7th of November in Coimbra.
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 Doctoral Fellowship Programme INPhINIT ”la Caixa” was created to attract researchers of any nationality who wish to pursue doctoral studies in Portugal or Spain.
There are four open positions with INESC-ID as host institution:
More information here.
