Category: Highlights

INESC-ID is delighted to welcome his 20 newest researchers, with fellowships from Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science (FCT) and recent research projects hiring. We are glad to welcome these young and dynamic researchers in the INESC-ID team! Meet some of our newest researchers.

SureThing is a project funded by FCT, the Portuguese national funding agency for science, research, and technology, running from 1st October 2018 to 30th September 2021. The main goal of the project is to allow for specific devices, incorporated in the provisioning of Internet of…

INESC-ID is one of the 10 European research institutions and companies that participate in the project EPEEC: European Programming Environment for Programming Productivity of Heterogeneous Supercomputers. This project, coordinated by Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputacion, runs from 1st October 2018 to 30th…

According to a Building Global Innovators’ ranking, which includes companies founded between 2013 and 2018, Heartgenetics and Petsys are at the top 25 Portuguese Scaleup. Unbabel, that has a close relationship with us, is also mentioned in the list. Read the complete article here and…

In recognition of the distinguished service and professional merit, the Scientific Council of INESC-ID has conferred the title of Emeritus Researcher to José Tribolet. The recognition took place at Amphitheater Abreu Faro, at Instituto Superior Técnico, on 13 January 2020.

INESC-ID has a new Board of Directors, for the biennium 2020-2021, composed by Inês Lynce (Chairman), João Paulo Carvalho, Jorge Fernandes, Rodrigo Rodrigues, and José Pimentel. Remains in the coordination of the Scientific Council: Isabel Trancoso, Paolo Romano and Vasco Manquinho.

Researchers António Rito Silva and Duarte Oliveira were awarded the Best Student Paper Award at the 21st International Conference On Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2019) for their paper entitled ‘Social Media Aware Virtual Editions For The Book of Disquiet’.

Our annual Christmas gathering took place yesterday at the Congress Center of Instituto Superior Técnico. Professor Arlindo Oliveira was our invited speaker for this special moment, with a lecture about the future of humanity. The INESC-ID 2019 awards were also presented in this event in…

We are truly proud to announce that Guilherme Paraíso, Junior Researcher from INESC-ID from the research line “Sustainable Energy Systems”, received REN 2nd Prize for his Master’s thesis entitled “Design of Control Strategies for Low Voltage DC Residential Grids”. The REN award is attributed every year,…

Our researchers Ana Paiva, Carlos Martinho, Maria José Ferreira, Raquel Oliveira, and Raul Paradeda won the best paper award at 11th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2019). The paper entitled “What makes a good robotic advisor? The role of assertiveness in human-robot interaction” was…