Isabel Trancoso appointed IEEE Fellow Committee Chair 2024
Isabel Trancoso was appointed as the new Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow Committee Chair, following her experience as Committee Vice Chair in 2023.
The distinguished INESC ID researcher will now assume this prestigious leadership role at IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.
From January until December 31, 2024, she will lead the Committee which is responsible for making recommendations to the IEEE Board of Directors for nominees to be elevated to the grade of Fellow, a position that recognizes her singular career and unique research contributions.
“Last year I was already part of the Committee as Vice Chair, and it was a remarkable experience. It is surely a privilege to now assume the role of Chair and lead the Committee in the evaluation of around one thousand nominees”, shares the researcher.
Isabel Trancoso is an internationally renowned Human Language Technologies researcher from INESC-ID and a Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico. She was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2011, and to ISCA Fellow in 2014.
The IEEE Fellow Committee is currently composed of 52 members, including the Chair and Vice Chair, all IEEE Fellows representing the 10 IEEE Regions, 47 IEEE Societies/Technical Councils and various affiliations.
Election to the grade of IEEE Fellow is one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon IEEE members by the Institute in recognition of their technical, educational, and leadership achievements. Only a select few IEEE members earn this prestigious honor.
According to Isabel Trancoso, “this appointment is particularly challenging at this time, given the many changes that will be implemented to enhance the Fellow program’s technical diversity and DE&I, while maintaining the program’s integrity and fairness.”
More about the new 2024 IEEE Fellow Committee here.
Upcoming Events
NII International Internship Programme Presentation and Q&A by Emmanuel Planas
On April 30, Emmanuel Planas, the acting director of the Global Liaison Office (GLO) and responsible for the internationalisation program at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, Japan, will give a presentation to introduce the NII and its internship program to INESC-ID students and IST’s Master’s in Computer Science students.
Date & Time: April 30, 14h00
Where: Sala Polivalente, Técnico – Taguspark
“The NII International Internship Program is an exchange activity with students from institutions with which NII has concluded a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) agreement. This incentive program aims at giving interns the opportunity for professional and personal development by engaging in research activities under the guidance and supervision of NII researchers.
The NII Internship Program is open to Research Master’s and PhD students who are currently enrolled at one of the partner institutions that have signed an MOU agreement with NII.”
Educational Workshop on Responsible AI for Peace and Security (UNODA)
On June 6 and 7, The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) are offering a selected group of technical students the opportunity to join a 2-day educational workshop on Responsible AI for peace and security.
The third workshop in the series will be held in Porto Salvo, Portugal, in collaboration with GAIPS, INESC-ID, and Instituto Superior Técnico. The workshop is open to students affiliated with universities in Europe, Central and South America, the Middle East and Africa, Oceania, and Asia.
Date & Time: June 6 a 7
Where: IST – Tagus Park, Porto Salvo
Registration deadline: April 8
Summary: “As with the impacts of Artificial intelligence (AI) on people’s day-to-day lives, the impacts for international peace and security include wide-ranging and significant opportunities and challenges. AI can help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals, but its dual-use nature means that peaceful applications can also be misused for harmful purposes such as political disinformation, cyberattacks, terrorism, or military operations. Meanwhile, those researching and developing AI in the civilian sector remain too often unaware of the risks that the misuse of civilian AI technology may pose to international peace and security and unsure about the role they can play in addressing them. Against this background, UNODA and SIPRI launched, in 2023, a three-year educational initiative on Promoting Responsible Innovation in AI for Peace and Security. The initiative, which is supported by the Council of the European Union, aims to support greater engagement of the civilian AI community in mitigating the unintended consequences of civilian AI research and innovation for peace and security. As part of that initiative, SIPRI and UNODA are organising a series of capacity building workshops for STEM students (at PhD and Master levels). These workshops aim to provide the opportunity for up-and-coming AI practitioners to work together and with experts to learn about a) how peaceful AI research and innovation may generate risks for international peace and security; b) how they could help prevent or mitigate those risks through responsible research and innovation; c) how they could support the promotion of responsible AI for peace and security.”