Ana Paiva elected to Lisbon Academy of Sciences
Ana Paiva, senior researcher in Artificial Intelligence for People and Society at INESC-ID and full professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, has been elected a corresponding member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, joining the 8th Section – Information Sciences and Technologies. The official swearing-in ceremony…
AMALIA was officially launched and is now ready for open use
The AMALIA (Automatic Multimodal Language Assistant with Artificial Intelligence) was officially presented on 1 July at Técnico Innovation Center, a ceremony attended by INESC-ID, as part of the research team. The presentation was met with very positive feedback and a clear recognition of the work…
Making their way across the universe: two space missions to join ISTSat-1
After two years in orbit, the ISTSat-1 remains fully operational and is now expecting company. Two missions are being prepared by IST NanoSatLab, in which INESC-ID participates, and set to join the first Portuguese university nanosatellite, with one of them scheduled to fly as early…
Cláudia S. Constantino distinguished with SNMMI 2026 International Best Abstract Award for Portugal
During her participation in the Annual Congress of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) (SNMMI 2026), held in Los Angeles from 30 May and 2 June, Cláudia S. Constantino was distinguished with the SNMMI 2026 International Best Abstract Award for Portugal. Her…
INESC-ID joins PRECISE, a pan-European initiative to predict cancer vulnerabilities
INESC-ID is a partner in PRECISE, a new pan-European initiative to predict, rather than simply catalogue, cancer vulnerabilities, formally launched today with the publication of its scientific vision in a commentary in Nature Genetics. Cancer cells often depend on specific genes or pathways to survive,…
INESC-ID Advisory Board visit: a day of institutional dialogue and exchange
On 3 July, INESC-ID welcomed members of its Advisory Board for an on-site visit to the institute, the first since November 2022. The very hot summer day didn’t stop the Advisory Board members, most coming from across the Atlantic, from visiting INESC-ID’s headquarters at Alves…
Professor Luís Vidigal Award 2025 goes to Pedro Lobo
A month after winning the APDC award, Pedro Lobo, former INESC-ID master’s student, was honoured with the Professor Luís Vidigal Award! It recognises the innovative work developed during his master’s thesis “Supporting Raw Data Copies in the LLVM Intermediate Representation”, under supervision of Nuno Lopes,…
“Evaluating ML: When will we stop fooling ourselves?”, the second INESC-ID Distinguished Lecture
Following a successful first session, the second INESC-ID Distinguished Lecture was held last week, on 2 July, at Instituto Superior Técnico featuring Professor Ricardo Baeza-Yates from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and University of Chile. Entitled “Evaluating ML: When will we stop…
VEREFY project wins António Brandão de Vasconcelos Award at Lab2Market
VEREFY, a project developed by INESC-ID students, was awarded the António Brandão de Vasconcelos award during the Lab2Market at Técnico! Developed by PhD student Filipe Altoe, master’s student Sérgio Pinto and INESC-ID researcher Sofia Pinto, this AI model can antecipate which narratives have the potential…
Nuno Verdelho Trindade granted “Engenheiro Conselheiro” by Ordem dos Engenheiros
Nuno Verdelho Trindade, INESC-ID researcher in the Graphics and Interaction scientific area, was granted the professional distinction of “Engenheiro Conselheiro” by the Ordem dos Engenheiros (Portuguese Order of Engineers). “Engenheiro Conselheiro” is the highest professional qualification level granted by the Order, reserved for senior engineers…