Closing the year, the INESC-ID Awards 2025 brought together researchers, students and staff to recognise three outstanding contributions to the institute’s scientific life and impact.

Hosted by the President of the Scientific Council, Rodrigo Rodrigues, the packed hybrid ceremony awarded Best INESC-ID Researcher to Luísa Coheur, Best Young Researcher to  Christof Torres and Best PhD Student to Pedro Orvalho.

The recipients gave short presentations of their work. Luísa gave an overview of research on transparent and inclusive machine translation evaluation, including efforts to adapt this work to translation niches such as sign language; Christof, speaking live from Berlin, discussed his ongoing research on fortifying decentralised financial systems, wallet privacy and cross-chain sandwiching; and Pedro, now a postdoctoral researcher at the Barcelona AI Research Institute, presented MENTOR, a semantic automated program repair framework for programming exercises designed for use in educational environments.

About the INESC-ID Awards:

Since 2009, the INESC-ID Awards are presented annually to honour researchers whose work has made a significant contribution to the scientific life and impact of the institute, helping nurture a culture of excellence and commitment within INESC-ID’s scientific community.

Winners are selected by an independent jury composed of world-renowned experts from the INESC-ID Advisory Board, ensuring a rigorous and external evaluation of the research conducted at the institute.

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