Two new keynotes announced for ISD 2023
Two new keynotes have been announced for ISD 2023: Professor Arlindo Oliveira (IST / University of Lisbon) and Professor Geert Poels (Ghent University). The 31st International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD 2023) provides a major forum for research and developments in the field of…
The May 2023 INESC-ID newsletter is out!
The May 2023 issue of NEWS-ID — the INESC-ID Newsletter — is out! You can read it here. Containing recent news from our researchers and their projects, open positions and some extra bits of content, our monthly newsletter is a great one-stop spot for great…
INESC-ID student Catarina Botelho wins “3 Minutos de Tese”
Catarina Botelho has been crowned winner of the first ever edition of 3 Minutos de Tese at the University of Lisbon. A PhD student in the INESC-ID Human Language Technologies (HLT) research area and Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Catarina won 1st place in yesterday’s live…
Ana Teresa Freitas receives 2023-2024 Fulbright Portugal Award
Ana Teresa Freitas has been named one of this year’s Fulbrighters by the Fulbright Portugal Program. A researcher in the Information and Decision Support Systems (IDSS) INESC-ID research area, as well as strategic coordinator of the Life and Health Technology thematic line, and Full Professor…
INESC-ID researchers @Gulbenkian: “Inteligência Artificial: Que Humanidade?”
INESC-ID researchers and Instituto Superior Técnico Professors Arlindo Oliveira and Isabel Trancoso will participate in a two-hour conference at the Gulbenkian Foundation on the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Taking place on 29 May 2023 at 5pm, Inteligência Artificial: Que Humanidade? (“Artificial Intelligence: What Humanity?”)…
Computational biology and the future of medicine: OLISSIPO collaborates with “Isto é Matemática”
OLISSIPO – Fostering Computational Biology Research and Innovation in Lisbon, an international Horizon 2020-funded project coordinated by INESC-ID, has recently collaborated in the production of the TV program Isto é Matemática (“This is Math”). In episode 6 of the currently running season of the program,…
INESC-ID researcher Luísa Coheur recognized with Excellence in Teaching Award
Luísa Coheur has been recognized with an Excellence in Teaching Award by the Pedagogical Council of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). An Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Professor Coheur is also a researcher within the Human Language Technologies (HLT) research area…
INESC-ID takes part in new Horizon Europe Project SYCLOPS
Eight leading European organizations join forces to bring together RISC-V and SYCL standards to demonstrate ground-breaking advances in scalability of extreme data analytics via fully-open AI acceleration. The wide-spread adoption of AI has resulted in a market for novel hardware accelerators that can efficiently process…
Two INESC-ID PhD students selected as “3 Minute Thesis” finalists
Two INESC-ID PhD students have been selected as part of the 12-strong group of finalist for the 3 Minutos de Tese (3 Minute Thesis) science communication competition. Catarina Botelho and Diogo Nunes — PhD students in the INESC-ID Human Language Technologies research area — will…
How to generate algorithms: Diogo Vaz featured in Público’s article series by PhD students
Diogo Vaz — a PhD student in the Distributed, Parallel and Secure Systems (DPSS) research area — has published a piece on his research work in the Portuguese newspaper Público (following Diogo Nunes’ recent piece in the same publication). As Diogo recounts, his “work intends…
Upcoming Events
OLISSIPO Summer School in Lisbon | Computational phylogenetics to analyse the evolution of cells and communities

We are happy to announce the OLISSIPO Summer School on Computational phylogenetics to analyse the evolution of cells and communities, which will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, at INESC-ID, between July 2-7, 2023.
Keynote speakers:
David Posada, University of Vigo (class)
João Alves, University of Vigo (hands-on)
Nadia El-Mabrouk, Université de Montréal (class)
Mattéo Delabre, Université de Montréal (hands-on)
Ran Libeskind-Hadas, Claremont McKenna College (class and hands-on)
Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University (class and hands-on)
See the preliminary agenda at: https://olissipo.inesc-id.pt/tree-tango-school
Registration is mandatory. You can register at: https://forms.gle/VsASFHW5E7MJvaCc9
The registration fee is 250€ for students and OLISSIPO members and 350€ for postdocs or other researchers (meals indicated at the schedule of the school are included, accommodation and flights are not). All details will be made available upon registration.
We will have slots for flash talks (3-10 min depending on the number of submissions) to present yourself and the work you have been developing in your research.
The 13th Lisbon Machine Learning School | LxMLS 2023

The Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School (LxMLS) takes place yearly at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). LxMLS 2023 will be a 6-day event (14-20 July, 2023), scheduled to take place as an in-person event.
The school covers a range of machine learning topics, from theory to practice, that are important in solving natural language processing problems arising in different application areas. It is organized jointly by Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), a leading Engineering and Science school in Portugal, the Instituto de Telecomunicações, the Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa (INESC-ID), the Lisbon ELLIS Unit for Learning and Intelligent Systems (LUMLIS), Unbabel, Zendesk, and IBM Research.
Check online for information about past editions: LxMLS 2011, LxMLS 2012, LxMLS 2013, LxMLS 2014, LxMLS 2015, LxMLS 2016, LxMLS 2017, LxMLS 2018, LxMLS 2019, LxMLS 2020, LxMLS 2021, LxMLS 2022 (you can also watch the videos of the lectures for 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2020).
31st International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD 2023)

The 31st International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD 2023) conference provides a forum for research and developments in the field of information systems. The theme of ISD 2023 is “Information systems development, organizational aspects and societal trends”. New trends in developing information systems emphasize the continuous collaboration between developers and operators in order to optimize the software delivery time. The conference promotes research on methodological and technological issues and how IS developers and operators are transforming organizations and society through information systems.
The ISD 2023 conference held this year also provides an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to promote their research, practical experience, and to discuss issues related to Information Systems through papers, posters, and journal-first paper presentations.
ISD 2023 will be hosted by Instituto Superior Técnico, in Lisbon, Portugal, on August 30–September 1, 2023.