Positions: 15

Research Grant (BII)

  • BII|2026/855 - Project SWATE

    Type of position: Research Grant (BII)
    Duration: 3 months
    Deadline to apply: 2026-02-26
    Description

    ONE (1) Research Grant for students enrolled in BSc in Computer Science or related areas, with the reference number BII|2026/855 under the scope of the Project SWATE: Socially-Aware AI for Teamwork Enhancement and Training– Refª LISBOA2030-FEDER-00777100 funded by operation nº 16594, Balcão dos Fundos, FEDER and FCT, is available under the following conditions:

     

    OBJECTIVES | FUNCTIONS 

    One of the goals of the SWATE project is the development of a markerless environment capable of capturing low-level data traces and translating them into multimodal quantitative data for teamwork assessment. The grant holder will develop and implement a tracking system using webcams in a room in the lab, as a test bed for the algorithms that track individuals in real-time. The grantee will explore different technologies for creating a calibrated 3D environment, tracking skeletons, deal with jittering and multi-person tracking overtime.


    Contact email: bolsas@inesc-id.pt

  • BII|2025/852 - Project GRID (I3IA003016) – UID/50021/2025

    Type of position: Research Grant (BII)
    Duration: 6 months
    Deadline to apply: 2026-02-26
    Description

    ONE (1) research grant for students that are enrolled in a BSc or MSc program with reference number BII|2025/687 under the scope of the project GRID (I3IA003016) – UID/50021/2025 funded by INESC-ID, is available under the following conditions:

     

    OBJECTIVES | FUNCTIONS 

    Candidates should demonstrate: 

    - Interest and experience in IT systems administration and development of parallel processing solutions, information systems, computer networks, cluster and cloud computing;

    - Strong programming and operating systems background;

    - Experience with development, deployment, and management of high-performance distributed and parallel computing clusters; 

    - Proficiency in distributed storage systems, operating systems, and network administration;

    - Software management skills (maintenance, packaging, deployment);

    - Experience with distributed filesystems and schedulers; 

    - Good communication skills, as user support activities will be part of their responsibilities; 

    - Proficiency in both spoken and written for both Portuguese and English; 

     

    Additional requirements: 

    - Candidates must not have any pending/failed courses;

    - Relevant practical experience is valued;

     

    # Work Plan 

    - IT infrastructure administration tasks (related to the competencies described above)

    - IT infrastructure maintenance tasks (related to the competencies described above)

    - IT infrastructure development tasks (related to the competencies described above)

    - Study and development of IT management solutions 


    Contact email: bolsas@inesc-id.pt

Research Grant (BI)

  • BI|2026/857- Project CARMA-Results – Refª 101168355

    Type of position: Research Grant (BI)
    Duration: 8 months
    Deadline to apply: 2026-02-27
    Description

    ONE (1) research grant for students with MSc degree with reference number BI|2026/857 under the scope of the Project CARMA-Results – Refª 101168355 funded by European Commission – Program Horizon Europe, is now available under the following conditions:

    OBJECTIVES | FUNCTIONS 

    Develop a foresight study with the members of the project consortium. This includes developing and running the foresight session and formalizing results to capture envisioned scenarios and future use of Human-Robot teamwork for the domain of search and rescue robots. The work and its results will be reported in a scientific paper.


    Contact email: bolsas@inesc-id.pt

  • BI|2026/853 -Project RESSONANCE

    Type of position: Research Grant (BI)
    Duration: 9 months
    Deadline to apply: 2026-02-27
    Description

    ONE (1) research grant for students with MSc degree with reference number BI|2026/853 under the scope of the Project RESSONANCE Refª LISBOA2030-FEDER-00789400, funded by operation 16713, Balcão dos Fundos, FEDER and FCT, is now available under the following conditions:

    OBJECTIVES | FUNCTIONS 

    The scholarship holder is expected to carry out research and development activities integrated in the RESSONANCE project, namely the design, development and implementation of PHYLOViZ 3.0, a web-based platform for phylogenetic data analysis, visualization and comparison, supported by semantic web-based data models and algorithms scalable to large scale phylogenetic data analyses.

    The main tasks include:

    •             Research and design of semantic data models for phylogenetic and genomic data;

    •             Definition and implementation of ontologies and RDF/OWL-based representations;

    •             Development of semantic web services and APIs;

    •             Implementation of a web-based interactive application for phylogenetic analysis and visualization, possibly reusing existing components;

    •             Integration of tools and algorithms, both existing and developed in the scope of this project; 

    •             Integration with public biomedical and bioinformatics databases;

    •             Experimental evaluation, performance and scalability testing;

    •             Documentation and dissemination of results;

    •             Public release of the software under open-source license.


    Contact email: bolsas@inesc-id.pt

  • BI|2026/844-Project SHIFT2DC

    Type of position: Research Grant (BI)
    Duration: 6 months
    Deadline to apply: 2026-02-27
    Description

    ONE (1) research grant for students with MSc degree with reference number BI|2026/844 under the scope of the Project SHIFT2DC -  Refª101136131 funded by European Commission - Program HORIZON EUROPE, is now available under the following conditions:

    OBJECTIVES | FUNCTIONS 

    i.Development of backend and front-end applications leveraging the existing IT infrastructure.

    ii. Keep track of the real-world deployments and analyse user interaction data with the deployed platforms.

    iii. Assist the research team in the production of reports and research papers. 


    Contact email: bolsas@inesc-id.pt

  • BI|2026/856 - CRAI

    Type of position: Research Grant (BI)
    Duration: 3 months
    Deadline to apply: 2026-02-26
    Description

    ONE (1) research grant for students with BSc degree with reference number BI|2026/856 under the scope of the Project Center for Responsible AI – Refª C628696807-00454142 funded by by Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP) https://recuperarportugal.gov.pt/ and Next Generation EU European Funds, is available under the following conditions:

    OBJECTIVES | FUNCTIONS 

    The grantee will run an experiment to study the capabilities of Agents, build with Large Language Models, in a collaborative a hidden profiles task. The scenario places 3 people in collaboration with an Agent in a group chat with the task of identifying and solving a problem with a airplane malfunction. The grantee will run all sessions, collect and analyze the data, and write a scientific report. 


    Contact email: bolsas@inesc-id.pt

  • BI|2026/854 - Project WSMART ROUTE+ - refª 2022.04180.PTDC

    Type of position: Research Grant (BI)
    Duration: 5 months
    Deadline to apply: 2026-02-26
    Description

    The purpose is to continue the research on Machine Learning methods applied to optimization techniques, in particular for the veicule routing problem. The idea is also to explore LLM use in optimization problems. This project is with Portuguese companies, it is necessary to speak and write Portuguese and English fluently.


    Contact email: bolsas@inesc-id.pt

  • BI|2026/851-Project GREENCHIPS

    Type of position: Research Grant (BI)
    Duration: 6 months
    Deadline to apply: 2026-02-24
    Description

    ONE (1) research grants for students with MSc degree with reference number BI|2026/850, project GREENCHIPS - Refª 101123309 - 2022-SKILLS-03, funded by European Commission - Program HORIZON EUROPE, is now available under the following conditions:

    OBJECTIVES | FUNCTIONS 

    Design of a Low Dropout voltage regulator, in CMOS technology, without external capacitance. Schematic and layout design:

    - Schematic design of the capless LDO 

    - Stability analysis of the capless LDO 

    - Layout design of the capless LDO 

    - Parasitic extraction and pos-layout simulation


    Contact email: bolsas@inesc-id.pt

  • BI|2026/850 - Project GREENCHIPS

    Type of position: Research Grant (BI)
    Duration: 6 months
    Deadline to apply: 2026-02-24
    Description

    ONE (1) research grants for students with MSc degree with reference number BI|2026/850, project GREENCHIPS - Refª 101123309 - 2022-SKILLS-03, funded by European Commission - Program HORIZON EUROPE, is now available under the following conditions:

    OBJECTIVES | FUNCTIONS 

    Create a Local Area Network in which laboratory equipment has fixed IP addresses - Use SCPI (Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments) commands accepted by each laboratory device to allow remote configuration via PYVISA - Use the appropriate hardware setup and a PYVISA script to perform typical characterization tests for analog and mixed circuits 

    - Create a tutorial to disseminate the automation process for the obtained characterization Test


    Contact email: bolsas@inesc-id.pt

  • BI|2026/846-Project SEQURED - Refª 101168112

    Type of position: Research Grant (BI)
    Duration: 3 months
    Deadline to apply: 2026-02-19
    Description

    ONE (1) research grants for students with MSc degree with reference number BI|2026/846 , Project SEQURED - Refª 101168112, funded by European Commission - Program HORIZON EUROPE (European Defence Fund), is now available under the following conditions:

    OBJECTIVES | FUNCTIONS 

    The European SEQURED project aims to strengthen European defense systems against quantum-era threats by designing a resilient and practical post-quantum cryptographic suite integrated into existing infrastructures. In support to the SEQURED project, the scholarship focuses on the development of a toolchain for the automated generation of crypto accelerators based on CGRAs.


    Contact email: bolsas@inesc-id.pt

  • BI|2026/845-Project SEQURED - Refª 101168112

    Type of position: Research Grant (BI)
    Duration: 3 months
    Deadline to apply: 2026-02-19
    Description

    ONE (1) research grants for students for students enrolled in a MSc degree with reference number BI|2026/845, project SEQURED -  Refª 101168112, funded by European Commission - Program HORIZON EUROPE (European Defence Fund), is now available under the following conditions:

    OBJECTIVES | FUNCTIONS 

    The European SEQURED project aims to strengthen European defense systems against quantum-era threats by designing a resilient and practical post-quantum cryptographic suite integrated into existing infrastructures. In support to the SEQURED project, the scholarship focuses on the development of a crypto-agility hardware accelerator based on the RISC-V Vector Extension (RVV), existing RISC-V vector cryptographic extensions, and custom instructions optimized for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms.


    Contact email: bolsas@inesc-id.pt

  • BI|2026/848-Project ORQESTRA - Refª 101224573

    Type of position: Research Grant (BI)
    Duration: 3 months
    Deadline to apply: 2026-02-19
    Description

    ONE (1) research grants for students with BSc degree with reference number BI|2026/848 , project ORQESTRA - Refª 101224573, funded by European Commission - Program HORIZON EUROPE, is now available under the following conditions:

    OBJECTIVES | FUNCTIONS 

    The European ORQESTRA project aims to enable the practical and certifiable deployment of post-quantum cryptography by delivering formally verified, efficient, and cost-effective software and shared hardware accelerators that bridge the gap between the high computational demands of PQC algorithms and real-world cryptographic systems. In support of this goal, this MSc scholarship focuses on the design and implementation of a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) on the RISC-V architecture, built on top of a CVA6 core and leveraging the COVE security framework, to provide a secure and programmable execution platform for quantum-resistant cryptographic services.


    Contact email: bolsas@inesc-id.pt

  • BI|2026/849-Project CHORYS - Refª 101189551

    Type of position: Research Grant (BI)
    Duration: months
    Deadline to apply: 2026-02-19
    Description

    ONE (1) research grants for students with BSc degree with reference number BI|2026/849 , project CHORYS - Refª 101189551, funded by European Commission - Program HORIZON EUROPE, is now available under the following conditions:

    OBJECTIVES | FUNCTIONS 

    The CHORYS project team at INESC-ID is working on the development of specific components for the OpenSSD-V platform, focusing on hardware/software co-design and circuit synthesis for ASIC/FPGA. The objective of this scholarship is the design and implementation of an Error Correction Code (ECC) hardware accelerator component, based on Low Density Parity Codes (LPDC), capable of exploiting co-designed approaches to improve system reliability and throughput, while simultaneously minimizing I/O latency and resource usage.


    Contact email: bolsas@inesc-id.pt

  • BI|2026/847-Project DARE SGA 1-Results - Refª 101202459

    Type of position: Research Grant (BI)
    Duration: 3 months
    Deadline to apply: 2026-02-19
    Description

    ONE (1) research grants for students with BSc degree with reference number BI|2026/847 , project DARE SGA 1-Results - Refª 101202459, funded by European Commission - Program HORIZON EUROPE, is now available under the following conditions:

    OBJECTIVES | FUNCTIONS 

    The DARE project team at INESC-ID is developing an accelerated multi-core computing system, composed of processors and accelerators, based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture. The objective of this scholarship is the design and implementation of a vectorial processing unit capable of exploiting massive data-level parallelism to provide substantial performance boosts to the applications being considered in this project.


    Contact email: bolsas@inesc-id.pt

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