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CMU Portugal welcomes 11 new Dual Degree Ph.D. Students
The CMU Portugal Program is proud to welcome eleven (11) new students to its Dual Degree Ph.D. Programs. Funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), the new Ph.D. candidates will start their 5-year journey in September 2021, they will spend up to 2 years at CMU and up to 3 years at a Portuguese University.
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CMU Portugal Large Scale projects Video
Have you already seen the Video of CMU Portugal Large Scale Collaborative Projects? If not, we are proud to share it here! This footage summarizes the research initiatives that are being supported under the Program, led by twelve (12) outstanding Portuguese ICT Companies partnering with Portuguese universities and research institutions, and research groups at Carnegie Mellon University. This video is a short overview of the strong collaboration networks that are built under the CMU Portugal partnership putting technology at the service of all. Individual videos of each project are also available on the CMU Portugal YouTube channel. Hope you enjoy it!
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José Fonseca de Moura Doctor Honoris Causa Ceremony
The CMU Portugal Director at CMU will be awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by Universidade de Lisboa in recognition of his academic, scientific and professional outstanding contributions, worldwide and with a strong impact in Portugal and IST, in signal processing and data science. Moura leads the CMU Portugal Program since its beginning in 2006. The Doctor Honoris Causa ceremony will take place at Instituto Superior Técnico, on 13th September 2021, at 2:30 p.m. and will be streamed live here.
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Remote enters the exclusive list of six Unicorn Companies with Portuguese DNA
The CMU Portugal Affiliated company Remote, a HR platform designed to help businesses build and manage remote teams around the world, has raised $150 million in a series B round of funding at a valuation of more than $1 billion. With this new round of investment, the company now joins the list of six Unicorn companies with Portuguese DNA which includes Farfetch, Feedzai, Outsystems and Talkdesk, all of them part of CMU Portugal industrial Affiliated partners list but also Mambu, a startup founded under the CMU Portugal Program that became in the beginning of 2021 a german based Unicorn company.
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CMU Portugal Co-Director Inês Lynce is now a Full Professor at Técnico
On a Ceremony held on July 14th at Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, the CMU Portugal National Co-Director was appointed as one of the seven (7) Institution new Full Professors. Congratulations Inês Lynce!
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Manuela Veloso ranked among the 10 most Influential Women in Engineering.
The internationally renowned AI researcher was ranked in the top 10 of the 35 women on the Academic Influence list, including astronauts, founders, and CEOs of well-known technology and researchers from around the world. Manuela Veloso is internationally renowned for her work in artificial intelligence and is one of the world’s top computer scientists and roboticists. The Portuguese researcher has been strongly involved with the Program since it was launched in 2006.
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11th edition of the Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School (LxMLS 2021)
The 11th edition of the Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School (LxMLS 2021) took place on July 7- 15th. The Summer School had a record number of 774 applications, 245 registered attendees (39% female) from 24 countries, 17 speakers, and 23 monitors. Similar to last year, this edition was also held online. LxMLS 2021results from a partnership between Técnico, INESC ID, IT, LUMILIS, Unbabel, Priberam, Carnegie Mellon Portugal and sponsored by Google and Cleverly.
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CMU Portugal paper wins the 10 Year Most Influential Paper Award
A research paper published in 2011 under the scope of CMU Portugal project INTERFACES has been awarded this year’s edition of the 10 Year Most Influential Paper Award.
The research was led by Luís Caires, CMU Portugal Scientific Director and Faculty member at Nova Lincs/ FCT-UNL, and Frank Pfenning, CMU School of Computer Science, as a key component of Bernardo Toninho’s Dual Degree Ph.D. in Computer Science. INTERFACES targeted the development of new techniques and tools for enforcing security, integrity, and correctness requirements on distributed extensible web-based applications by introducing novel, semantically rich notions of interface description languages, based on advanced type systems and logic.
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CMU Portugal researchers distinguished with ACM Paper Award
A team of researchers from Universidade de Lisboa and Carnegie Mellon University will be awarded an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the upcoming ESTEC/FSE 2021 Conference. The collaboration was established via Vasco Manquinho's participation in the CMU Portugal Visiting Faculty Program in 2019, where he worked with Ruben Martins, CMU Portugal faculty at CMU’s Computer Science Department. Other team members include David Garlan (CMU and also CMU Portugal faculty member).
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Min Hun Lee is CMU Portugal most recent Dual degree Ph.D. student
Congratulations to Min Hun Lee, our Dual degree Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at ISR-Lisboa and CMU for sucessfully defending his Ph.D. Thesis! Thesis title: "Interactive Hybrid Intelligence Systems for Human-AI/Robot Collaboration: Improving the Practices of Physical Stroke Rehabilitation". Supervisors: Alexandre Bernardino at ISR Lisboa/ Instituto Superior Técnico and Dan Siewiorek ECE Department at Carnegie Mellon University.
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CMU Portugal 2021 Doctoral Symposium
The first session of the 2021 CMU Portugal Doctoral Symposium will take place on September 15th at Pavilhão do Conhecimento in Lisbon. The Program will host several sessions between September and December, addressed to all dual-degree and Affiliated Ph.D. Programs candidates and all Ph.D. candidates conducting their doctoral thesis under a CMU Portugal research project.
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