INESC-ID Awards 2025: celebrating research excellence and the people who make it
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…
1st place in ULisboa redeSAÚDE Award goes to Catarina Botelho
Former INESC-ID PhD student and researcher in Human Language Technologies (HLT), Catarina Botelho, was awarded first place in the category “Health Systems / Entrepreneurship / Digital Transition” of the ULisboa RedeSAÚDE awards 2025. The goal of the Awards is to motivate the interest of PhD…
Maria Ponte distinguished with Honorable Mention at the CRAI Forum 2025
Maria Ponte, INESC-ID master’s student was distinguished with an Honorable Mention of the SPARK Award on November 25, during the 2025 edition of the Center for Responsible AI Forum 2025 (CRAI 2025), in Lisbon. The awards were supported by Feedzai and aimed to recognise impactful…
INESC-ID student Lucian Popescu received “La Caixa” Foundation Doctoral INPhINIT fellowship
Lucian Popescu, PhD student in High-Performance Computing Architectures and Systems (HPCAS), and advised by Nuno Lopes, researcher in the same area, received the “La Caixa” Foundation Doctoral INPhINIT fellowship. The exclusive fellowship is attributed to international students who wish to pursue doctoral studies in Portugal…
Rubén Solera-Ureña recognised as Outstanding PC Member for ECAI 2025
INESC-ID researcher, Rubén Solera-Ureña, from the Human Language Technologies scientific area, has recently been elected Outstanding Program Committee (PC) Member for the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) 2025. This election recognises his vital contributions to the reviewing process, contributing to the research community and…
Paula Carvalho, Danielle Caled and Mário Silva win “Best Portuguese Internet Research” Award 2025 by the Internet Society
The paper “The Thin Line Between Conspiracy Theories and Opinion: Why Humans and AI Struggle to Differentiate Them”, developed by INESC-ID, has recently won the “Best Portuguese Internet Research” Award of the Internet Society. The paper is authored by Paula Carvalho, now at Universidade de…
INESC-ID Researchers among Stanford Elsevier’s World’s Top 2% Most Influential Scientists in 2024
Stanford has released the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists List 2025, which feature 20 INESC-ID researchers, among the most cited scientists in the world. This annual recognition comprises two lists naming top scientists, doctors, engineers, and mathematicians, among 200 thousand people, one referring to the 2024…
Joaquim Jorge Elected 2027 IEEE Computer Society President
INESC-ID researcher Joaquim Jorge, from the Graphics and Interaction scientific area, has been elected President of the IEEE Computer Society for 2027, after serving on the Society’s Board of Governors and leading multiple initiatives in the field of computing. A long-time contributor to the IEEE…
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). Sahar’s work “MSDF-Based Hardware Accelerators for Energy-Efficient Neural Networks in Edge Computing…
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….