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

Improving the detection of unseen cyberattacks in industrial systems

04/09/2026

LASIGE’s PhD student Allan da S. Espindola and integrated members António Casimiro and Pedro M. Ferreira in collaboration with Altair O. Santin and Eduardo K. Viegas from the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (PUCPR), Brazil, was published in the top 10% journal *Future Generation Computer Systems*. The paper entitled “Enhancing Intrusion Detection Generalization via Diversity-Driven […]

Vasco Vasconcelos Serves as Program Chair at INForum 2026

02/09/2026

Vasco Vasconcelos, an integrated researcher at LASIGE, is the Program Chair for INForum 2026 – Simpósio de Informática, alongside Ana Alonso, and the event will be held on September 3–4 in Setubal. The 16th edition of the annual national symposium brought together researchers, students, and industry professionals for a two-day lunch-to-lunch event covering various areas […]

LASIGE receives a Google gift to study AI literacy for children with disabilities

31/08/2026

Tiago Guerreiro, LASIGE integrated member and current Director, received an unrestricted research gift from Google to support his work on AI literacy for children with visual impairments. Tiago Guerreiro’s research focuses on the co-creation of inclusive educational tools and methods that teach children with visual impairments the foundational principles of data science and machine learning. […]

RECENT

TALKS

LASIGE Welcome Day 2026

07/10/2026

LASIGE Talks: David Gonçalves and Afonso Simões

23/09/2026

LASIGE TALKS: Sofia Conceição and Daniel Reis

09/09/2026

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ONGOING

PROJECTS

QUICK-DNA

QUantum Innovation for Computational Knowledge in DNA

SMaRtChain

Fast and Energy-efficient Distributed Consensus for Blockchains

VAPrevention

Randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation of a person-centred digital intervention to prevent diabetes in high-risk adults

HOFGA

The Hardness of Finding Good Algorithms

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Projects

PUBLICATIONS

Members

RECENT

PUBLICATIONS

Nuno M. Rodrigues, Vanessa F. Fonseca, Renato Mamede, Susanne E. Tanner, Bernardo Duarte, Sara Silva. Integrating elemental and total reflection X-ray spectral fingerprints with machine learning for advanced seafood traceability. Food Control, Elsevier BV, 2026 [Biblios]

Nuno Fachada, João P. Matos-Carvalho, Carlos M. Fernandes. A catch-all discrete distribution: Short description and main properties. Examples and Counterexamples, 8, Elsevier BV, 2025 [Biblios]

Guglielmo Faggioli, Laura Menotti, Stefano Marchesin, Isotta Trescato, Lara Ahmad, Helena Aidos, Anca Loredana Alungulese, Riccardo Bellazzi, Roberto Bergamaschi, Giovanni Birolo, Pietro Bosoni, Maria Fernanda Cabrera-Umpiérrez, Paola Cavalla, Adriano Chió, Arianna Dagliati, Mamede de Carvalho, Piero Fariselli, José Manuel García Dominguez, Sergio González Martínez, Marta Gromicho, Alessandro Guazzo, Aleksandar Jovanović, Borko Kostić, Enrico Longato, Sara C. Madeira, Umberto Manera, José Luis Muñoz Blanco, Eleonora Tavazzi, Erica Tavazzi, Elena Trasobares Iglesias, Vladimir Urošević, Martina Vettoretti, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Gianmaria Silvello, Barbara Di Camillo, Nicola Ferro. The BRAINTEASER Datasets: Clinical, Wearable and Environmental Data for ALS & MS Progression Modeling. Scientific Data, 12, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2025 [Biblios]

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SOFTWARE &

TOOLS

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...

FreeST

A concurrent programming language, based on a core functional language with primitives to fork new threads, create channels and exchange messages...

MOOL

Mool is a mini object-oriented language in a Java-like style with support for concurrency, that allows programmers to specify class usage...

DiShIn

DiShIn is a software package provides the basic functions to start using semantic similarity measures directly from a rdf or owl...

OTD (OSINT Threat Detector pilot)

In the scope of the DiSIEM H2020 project, a pilot was built as a service to select cybersecurity threat intelligence from...

Datapark

A platform that enables subjective and objective data collection for Parkinson’s disease. Futhermore, improves data visualization for clinicians. Team @ LASIGE:...

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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.