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“Healthy Mind, PhD in Progress”: Supporting PhD Student Wellbeing at INESC-ID
Can research institutes excel without caring for the wellbeing of their people?
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INESC-ID at the INESC Brussels Hub Summer Meeting 2025
Last month, the BIP Meeting Centre, in Brussels, hosted the 2025 INESC Brussels Hub Summer Meeting, which brought together over 200 participants, including researchers, EU policymakers, and industry leaders. From June 25 to 26, the high-level policy and strategy forum, organised by INESC Brussels Hub, addressed Europe’s most pressing research and innovation policy changes, from strategic autonomy to the role of dual-use research in Europe’s future.
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INESC-ID PhD Student Awarded Best Student Paper Award at ISVLSI 2025
Sahar Moradi Cherati, one of our PhD Students in High-Performance Computing Architectures and Systems (HPCAS) was awarded the “Best Student Paper Award” during the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (Very-large-scale integration).
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Stepping up for Europe: INESC-ID at Encontro Ciência 2025
In a fractured, fast-changing world, Europe is facing urgent questions about security, sustainability and technological sovereignty. At Encontro Ciência 2025, Portugal’s largest annual science and technology gathering, we brought those questions into the room.
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A Year of Laps around the Earth: Celebrating ISTSat-1’s first anniversary in orbit
One year ago, Portugal launched its first university satellite into space, aboard the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Ariane 6 rocket, with the mission of testing its ability to detect aircraft in remote areas.
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A Walk in the Park: Last PhD Student Meetup before Summer Break
Summer is in full swing, bringing with it warm sunshine that lasts until 9 pm. On one such day, our PhD students held their final Meetup before the slower months of July and August.
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Isabel Trancoso elected to Lisbon Academy of Sciences
Isabel Trancoso, senior researcher at INESC-ID, founder of the Human Language Technologies area, and full professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, has been elected a corresponding member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences. She will join the Science Class, 8th Section – Information Sciences and Technologies. The official swearing-in ceremony will take place on July 3, ahead of the Academy’s annual celebrations on July 4.
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INESC-ID and CMU team up to advance Conversational AI
With the goal of launching a new research collaboration, for the development of Adaptive Conversational Engines, a research team led by Shinji Watanabe, Associate Professor at the Language Technologies Institute (CMU) traveled to Lisbon from June 15 to 18. This falls under the scope of the CMU Portugal supported project, “ACE-FM: Adaptive Conversational Engine powered by Foundation Models”, “which aims to enhance the capability of speech foundation models to understand long-form, multi-party conversations toward conversational AI. Besides, it supports the collaboration between CMU and PRR Mobilizing Agenda Accelerat.AI, led at INESC-ID by Human Language Technologies researcher Alberto Abad, Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (Técnico).”
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Rui Henriques honoured with Universidade de Lisboa/Caixa Geral de Depósitos Scientific Award 2025
The results for the Universidade de Lisboa/Caixa Geral de Depósitos Scientific Awards were recently announced, and INESC-ID’s Rui Henriques was among the awardees! The Information and Decision for Support Systems researcher, and Instituto Superior Técnico Professor, was recognised for his contributions in the field of Computer Science and Engineering, being one of 20 researchers awarded in their respective fields.
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