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LASIGE research published in ACM Computing Surveys
Matilde Pós-de-Mina Pato, LASIGE’s researcher and PhD student, published the paper “Survey on Recommender Systems for Biomedical Items in Life and Health Sciences” in ACM Computing Surveys journal, a high-ranked journal in the field of Computer Science (h-index of 190, Scimago Q1), in December 2023. The paper was co-authored by LASIGE’s integrated researchers Márcia Barros […]
LASIGE PhD students intern at Sony AI
LASIGE’s PhD students Pedro Giesteira Cotovio and Susana Nunes have embarked on a six-month internship at Sony AI’s Barcelona Office, starting in January 2024. They have joined a team aimed at various breakthroughs in AI research, including the application of AI in the scientific domain. Their work examines the application of ontologies for pre-training graph […]
Vasco Vasconcelos @ Kyoto University
LASIGE’s member Vasco Vasconcelos spent his sabbatical in Japan as a guest at Kyoto University, where he was hosted by Professor Atsushi Igarashi. His visit was from November to December 2023. During his visit, the researcher engaged with various computer science groups and presented his recent work on the FreeST programming language, which he and […]
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
The United Nations identified a significant gender gap that persisted throughout the years at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines all over the world. Even though women have made tremendous progress toward increasing their participation in higher education, they are still under-represented in these fields. So did you know? Women are […]
Andreia Sofia Teixeira keynote’s talk at WWCS 2024
LASIGE’s integrated member, Andreia Sofia Teixeira was given a keynote talk “Connected Minds: Navigating the Complexity of Mental Health through the Lens of Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Network Science”, at the Winter Workshop on Complex Systems (WWCS), held in Spain, on January 21-26, 2024. This talk delved into the imperative task of unraveling the […]
Distinguished Paper Award @ POPL 2024
The paper “Parametric Subtyping for Structural Parametric Polymorphism” co-authored by LASIGE’s integrated researcher Andreia Mordido and recently presented at the 51st ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2024) was selected for a Distinguished Paper Award. The Program Committee awards the distinction of Distinguished Papers to those papers that are deemed important for a […]