NEWS
2nd place in a Federated Learning Competition
Last week, LASIGE PhD students Susana Nunes, Ricardo Carvalho, Diogo Branco, Diogo Azevedo, and Pedro Cotovio, participated in the Winter School on Trustworthy AI at Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany, where they secured second place in the competition. The event lasted four days, from March 14 to 17, and featured teams from Germany, Macedonia, and Portugal. […]
LASIGE published @ IEEE VR 2023
The paper “The Design Space of the Auditory Representation of Objects and Their Behaviours in Virtual Reality for Blind People”, co-authored by LASIGE’s João Guerreiro and André Rodrigues (both integrated researchers) and Rodrigo Nogueira (MSc student) has been accepted to IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR 2023), a top-ranked venue […]
Sara Silva interviewed by the SPECIES Society
Sara Silva was the latest researcher interviewed for the SPECIES Society’s newsletter. The LASIGE’s integrated researcher spoke on how she discovered her now main area of research, Genetic Programming. She talked about her career path, inspirations and choices, and shared her perspective on the future of Machine Learning. Sara Silva is an associate editor of […]
Ana Luísa Respício @ C-DAYS MADEIRA
Ana Luísa Respício, LASIGE integrated member, was one of the invited speakers to the C-DAYS MADEIRA Conference, at the panel “Privacy and Justice”, held in Câmara de Lobos, on March 9, 2022. C-DAYS MADEIRA seeks to bring together guests from various areas, creating space for discussion and reflection on prevention and ways to mitigate the […]
Diogo Poças published in SIAM journal
LASIGE researcher Diogo Poças published joint work with Aris Filos-Ratsikas (University of Edinburgh), Yiannis Giannakopoulos (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen Nürnberg), Alexandros Hollender (University of Oxford) and Philip Lazos (Input Output) in the SIAM Journal on Computing (SCIMAGO Q1). The paper, entitled “On the Complexity of Equilibrium Computation in First-Price Auctions”, considers the problem of computing a (pure) […]
Best Paper Award in Human-Computer Interaction at HUCAPP 2023
LASIGE’s integrated member Teresa Chambel and MSc students Francisco Caldeira and João Lourenço won the Best Paper Award at the 7th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction Theory and Applications (HUCAPP 2023) for the paper “Happy or Sad, Smiling or Drawing: multimodal search and visualisation of movies based on emotions along time“. HUCAPP aims at becoming […]