The Técnico Innovation Centre powered by Fidelidade (TIC) hosted over 100 students who attended the 11th edition of Instituto Superior Técnico’s (IST) PhD Open Days. During October 27 and 28, the main stage was occupied by sessions and debates, and the halls filled with the voices of students who came to share their research.

This gathering, organised by the Técnico Doctoral School, brought together students from all areas of IST to connect with each other and with the many invited experts. Whether during talks or within the posters exhibited along the open space of TIC, INESC-ID’s presence did not go unnoticed.

Among the several posters, all developed by PhD students from different IST areas, our very own students Luís Crespo, Miguel Graça, André Augusto, Carolina Carreira, João Guerreiro, Pedro P. Santos, and Vaibhav Arora had the opportunity to showcase their research and exchange ideas with fellow participants. On the second day the spotlight was on the ones who braved into the stage to present, in a short amount of time, the story of their research and the work completed so far. Miguel Graça, PhD student from the High-Performance Computer Architectures and Systems scientific area, presented his current research “Endeavor: Efficient GPU-Based PairHMM for Detection of DNA Variants” as well as a previous work “Distributed Transformer Neural Network for High Order Epistasis Detection”.

One of the Invited Talks, focused on “PhDs in Society”, featured the Coordinator of the Técnico Doctoral School and INESC-ID researcher Leonel Sousa who participated and moderated the interventions of Leonor Beleza, President of the Champalimaud Foundation, and Maria Mota, CEO of the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM). Further along the afternoon, our Sustainable Power Systems scientific coordinator, Pedro Carvalho participated in the debate “Clean Energies and Sustainability”.

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