LASIGE

LASIGE is a research unit at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, in the field of Computer Science and Engineering. LASIGE gathers experts from several areas of the computing field, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, concurrency, distributed computing, embedded and cyber-physical systems, human-centred computing, information systems, information retrieval, security and privacy, software validation and verification, theory of computing, with an emphasis on computational complexity, and applied computing to life and medical sciences. LASIGE’s activities are organised around seven lines of excellence supported by key quality indicators.

Cyber‐Physical Systems

The LASIGE research line Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) investigates the functional, human, trustworthiness and timing aspects of cyber-physical systems. This research line focuses on system solutions for offline verification and online monitoring of security- and safety-critical embedded real-time systems, mechanisms for efficient and adaptive interactions among entities in specific scenarios, protocols for autonomous driving scenarios, and visual analytics techniques and tools for exploring heterogeneous datasets from cyber-physical and smart systems, making them more transparent to end-users.

Data and Systems Intelligence

The research line on Data and Systems Intelligence (DSI) strives to devise innovative solutions for large‐scale data problems and complex systems. DSI intersects areas of recent high visibility and impact, such as machine learning and data mining, but also the general fields of artificial intelligence. This highly multidisciplinary research line aims at advancing research and knowledge in the recent flagship application and research domain of data science, web science, and network science.

Dependable and Secure Decentralized Systems

Dependable and Secure Decentralized Systems (DS2) investigates models, protocols and architectures that are suitable for applications with strong dependability requirements, namely applications that need to remain operational despite accidental faults or malicious attacks. The solutions being developed cover a diverse set of objectives, enforcing the prevention, detection and tolerance of failures. The kind of environments that are being contemplated include cloud deployments, highly dynamic and geographically distributed networks, mobile distributed computing, web systems and applications, smart grids and other critical infrastructures.

Health and Biomedical Informatics

LASIGE presents a longstanding record of research contributions in the area of Health & Biomedical Informatics (HBI), by providing innovative solutions for processing biological and medical data, and for supporting the discovery of new biomedical insights. This research line aims to encompass all the scientific work in LASIGE where informatics plays a fundamental role in creating new knowledge in life and health sciences.

Inclusive Human-Computer Interaction

LASIGE presents a longstanding record of research contributions in the area of accessible computing, in assessing, designing, and developing technologies for people with different abilities. The Inclusive Human-Computer Interaction (IHCI) research line gathers all the contributions that seek to evaluate or design interfaces for people with disabilities, older adults, or people suffering from situational impairments.

Reliable Software Systems

Reliable Software Systems (RSS) focuses on modelling techniques and formal analysis approaches to software system structure and behaviour. It aims at enhancing the software engineering practice and particularly the quality of the software.
Its activity ranges from developing theoretical models, languages and techniques to the development of tools that can be used in the real-world software development process, with a clear impact on the workflow of developers and the industry in general. RSS centers its attention on the verification and validation of software, increasing the confidence of developers in their code, especially in complex and error-prone scenarios, such as concurrent and distributed programs.

Theory of Computing

Theory of Computing (ToC) is dedicated to the foundational, theoretical study of computation: What is a computer? What is computation and where does it manifest? What are the capabilities and limitations of different kinds of computers? The method we use to study this question is the mathematical method: we use precise mathematical definitions to model various systems where computation (or a computation-like phenomenon) occurs, and then we use rigorous, deductive reasoning (i.e., mathematical proofs) to understand the behavior and properties of such systems.

RECENT

NEWS

LASIGE Talks’ 2025 edition

09/07/2025

The 13th and final LASIGE Talks edition of the 2025 academic year took place on June 25, highlighting the high-quality and diverse research carried out within the LASIGE research unit. The event has served as a valuable platform for sharing distinguished work conducted by LASIGE members. This edition featured a distinguished paper presentation, a year-in-review […]

Diogo F. Soares and Sara C. Madeira publish Pattern Recognition Journal

08/07/2025

Diogo F. Soares and Sara C. Madeira, LASIGE Integrated Researchers, published the paper “TriHSPAM: Triclustering heterogeneous longitudinal clinical data using sequential patterns” in Pattern Recognition Journal, a top-ranked journal in Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition. The paper is co-authored by Rui Henriques from INESC-ID and Instituto Superior Técnico. This research introduces TriHSPAM, a novel triclustering algorithm specifically designed […]

João Carvalho receives DoCEIS2025’s Best Paper Award

07/07/2025

The paper “Deep Learning Models for GNSS-denied Target Navigation”, co-authored by João Pedro Carvalho, LASIGE integrated, member among others, received the Best Paper Award at the 16th Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems (DoCEIS 2025), held in Portugal from 2 to 4 July 2025. This work tackles the problem of target navigation in […]

RECENT

TALKS

Distinguished Lecture: Meredith R. Morris

15/07/2025

5th LASIGE Forum

10/07/2025

Reading Club: Meet our Advisory Board – Meredith R. Morris

08/07/2025

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ONGOING

PROJECTS

HfPT

Health from Portugal

Accelerat.ai

Multi-lingual Conversational AI with Modern Contact Centers

HOFGA

The Hardness of Finding Good Algorithms

CIBERLAB

CIBERLAB - Laboratório para Ensaios de Cibersegurança para o Setor Elétrico

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Projects

PUBLICATIONS

Members

RECENT

PUBLICATIONS

Diogo F. Soares, Rui Henriques, Sara C. Madeira. TriHSPAM: Triclustering heterogeneous longitudinal clinical data using sequential patterns. Pattern Recognition, 167, Elsevier BV, 2025 [Biblios]

Simon Pommerencke Melgaard, Rasmus Lund Jensen, Pedro Miguel Ferreira, Kamilla Heimar Andersen, Nuno Dionisio, Vinicius Vielmo Cogo, Per Kvols Heiselberg. Fault detection in AHU: A walkthrough for implementation in a Danish educational building. Energy and Buildings, 342, Elsevier BV, 2025 [Biblios]

Catarina Gamboa, Abigail Reese, Alcides Fonseca, Jonathan Aldrich. Usability Barriers for Liquid Types. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, 9(PLDI):1911-1936, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2025 [Biblios]

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SOFTWARE &

TOOLS

ParTypes

ParTypes is a toolchain for validating and synthesising message-based programs for Message Passing Interface (MPI) programs. The general aim is to...

Play JBT – Mobile Application for the Tropical Botanical Garden of Lisbon

Mobile application (Android and iOS), which acts mainly as a helping guide for visitors of the Lisbon Tropical Botanical Garden. This...

DNA Privacy Detector

The DNA privacy detector is a method that systematically detects privacy-sensitive DNA segments coming directly from an input stream, using as...

RT-PSS

Real-Time Proactive Secret Sharing Library for RTAI is an implementation of the Shamir’s secret sharing scheme and Herzberg’s proactive secret sharing...

DOL

DOL is a Dependent Object-oriented Language featuring dependent types, mutable objects and class-based inheritance with subtyping. The DOL compiler is responsible...

ProPi

ProPi is a tool to statically verify whether message passing programs are free from deadlocks. The tool takes as input a...

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About LASIGE

LASIGE is a research and development unit at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, in the field of Computer Science and Engineering.

LASIGE has approximately 250 collaborators, including researchers holding a doctoral degree, PhD and MSc students and other junior researchers, project managers, and a team of system administrators. The current Director is Prof. Alysson Bessani.