5 New Pojects Approved at CMU Call 2019
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!
Upcoming Events
Educational Workshop on Responsible AI for Peace and Security (UNODA)
On June 6 and 7, The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) are offering a selected group of technical students the opportunity to join a 2-day educational workshop on Responsible AI for peace and security.
The third workshop in the series will be held in Porto Salvo, Portugal, in collaboration with GAIPS, INESC-ID, and Instituto Superior Técnico. The workshop is open to students affiliated with universities in Europe, Central and South America, the Middle East and Africa, Oceania, and Asia.
Date & Time: June 6 a 7
Where: IST – Tagus Park, Porto Salvo
Registration deadline: April 8
Summary: “As with the impacts of Artificial intelligence (AI) on people’s day-to-day lives, the impacts for international peace and security include wide-ranging and significant opportunities and challenges. AI can help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals, but its dual-use nature means that peaceful applications can also be misused for harmful purposes such as political disinformation, cyberattacks, terrorism, or military operations. Meanwhile, those researching and developing AI in the civilian sector remain too often unaware of the risks that the misuse of civilian AI technology may pose to international peace and security and unsure about the role they can play in addressing them. Against this background, UNODA and SIPRI launched, in 2023, a three-year educational initiative on Promoting Responsible Innovation in AI for Peace and Security. The initiative, which is supported by the Council of the European Union, aims to support greater engagement of the civilian AI community in mitigating the unintended consequences of civilian AI research and innovation for peace and security. As part of that initiative, SIPRI and UNODA are organising a series of capacity building workshops for STEM students (at PhD and Master levels). These workshops aim to provide the opportunity for up-and-coming AI practitioners to work together and with experts to learn about a) how peaceful AI research and innovation may generate risks for international peace and security; b) how they could help prevent or mitigate those risks through responsible research and innovation; c) how they could support the promotion of responsible AI for peace and security.”