The December 2022 INESC-ID newsletter is out!
The December 2022 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…
How and when viruses move: predicting the spread of COVID-19 using neural network models
A group of researchers, led by Arlindo Oliveira, has proposed a new method to compute the spatio-temporal dynamics of COVID-19 infections. In a paper published this week on ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems, four INESC-ID researchers (Mário Cardoso, André Cavalheiro, Alexandre Borges and…
INESC-ID takes part in the world’s largest consortium on Responsible AI
INESC-ID has been announced as one of the members of the world’s largest consortium on Responsible Artificial Intelligence (Responsible AI). Led by Unbabel — and including a set of ten other startups, eight research institutes (in Lisbon, Porto and Coimbra, amongst them INESC-ID, Instituto Superior…
Open call for six doctoral research fellowships
INESC-ID has an open call for six Research Grants for Doctoral Degrees in the scientific areas listed below, under the FCT Research Grant Regulation (RBI) and the Statute of the Scholarship Holder of Research (EBI). The impact of the research carried out at INESC-ID is…
INESC-ID researchers recognized in Stanford’s list of top 2% most-cited
Several INESC-ID researchers have been included in the comprehensive data sets comprising Stanford’s list of the World’s top 2% most-cited researchers in 2021 via Elsevier. Comprising two worldwide listings of 200,000 researchers (signalling those who were the most influential in 2021, as well as across…
Joaquim Jorge elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society
Joaquim Jorge — researcher at INESC-ID’s Graphics and Interaction Research Area and Professor of Computer Science at Instituto Superior Técnico — has been elected to the 2023-2025 Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS), a leadership position and honour conferred to some…
André Ribeiro and Alberto Rodrigues da Silva receive “Most Influential Paper” Award at QUATIC’22
André Ribeiro — former masters student in computer science and engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) — and Alberto Rodrigues da Silva — Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering at IST and researcher at INESC-ID — have received the “Most Influential Paper” Award…
Ana Teresa Freitas confirmed as a keynote speaker at ECCB2022
Ana Teresa Freitas — Information & Decision Support Systems (IDSS) researcher at INESC-ID and Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico — has been confirmed as a keynote speaker at the 21st European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB2022). Under the motto “Planetary Health and Biodiversity” and…
Open call for six doctoral research fellowships
INESC-ID is opening a call, starting on November 15 2022, for the attribution of six Research Grants for Doctoral Degrees in the scientific areas listed below, under the FCT Research Grant Regulation (RBI) and the Statute of the Scholarship Holder of Research (EBI). The impact…
INESC-ID awarded close to €1 million in FCT research funding
INESC-ID has been awarded shy of one million euros in FCT funding from the latest call for research projects, in a spread of Research, Development and Innovation corresponding to over a quarter of the successfully-funded projects across its two relevant evaluation panels. On 27 July…
Upcoming Events
Research data repositories and tools for human genomics data sharing

Inform the human research community of the status and availability of BioData.pt Local EGA and discuss its need and usability challenges.
The European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA) is a repository for all sequence and genotype experiment types, including case-control, population, and family studies. The EGA will serve as a permanent archive that will archive several levels of data, including the raw data (which could, for example, be re-analysed in the future by other algorithms) as well as the genotype calls provided by the submitters.
Responding to national regulations over human data sharing and other constraints, BioData.pt deploys and operates a Local EGA instance and tools that allow data discovery of genomic and phenoclinic data, following the GA4GH standard and international best practices.
This workshop aims at informing the human research community of the status and availability of BioData.pt Local EGA and discuss from several perspectives its need and usability challenges.
Further details and registration are available here.
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.