NEWS
LASIGE member appointed by Ciências to the Board of FCiências.ID
António Casimiro, leader of the Cyber-Physical Systems research line of LASIGE, was appointed by Ciências to integrate the Board (Conselho de Administração) of FCiências.ID, and then elected as one of the FCiências.ID Executive Commission members. The appointment if for a 4-years term (2025-2028). FCiências.ID – Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, is a […]
LASIGE publishes in the ACM CSUR Journal
Bakary Badjie, LASIGE’s PhD student, published a paper titled “Adversarial Attacks and Countermeasures on Image Classification-based Deep Learning Models in Autonomous Driving Systems: A Systematic Review”, in the ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) Journal, a top-ranked journal with an impact factor of 23.8, ranked 6.280 in SCImago Journal Rank and 1/143 in Scimago’s Computer Science and […]
LASIGE Researcher Joins International Digital Inclusion Initiative
We are pleased to announce that Carlos Duarte, leader of the Inclusive Human-Computer Interaction at LASIGE, has been appointed as an expert to the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) Digital Inclusion and Accessibility track for virtual worlds and the citiverse. This important initiative brings together international experts to address critical challenges in making emerging virtual environments […]
LASIGE’s work can detect one of the deadliest cancers
“Despite being one of the most prevalent forms of cancer, prostate cancer (PCa) shows a significantly high survival rate, provided there is timely detection and treatment. Computational methods can help make this detection process considerably faster and more robust. However, some modern machine-learning approaches require accurate segmentation of the prostate gland and the index lesion. […]
World Braille Day
World Braille Day, celebrated since 2019, by the United Nations (UN), is observed to raise awareness of the importance of Braille, a tactile representation of alphabetic and numerical symbols using six dots to represent each letter and number, and even musical, mathematical and scientific symbols, as a means of communication in the full realization of […]
Luís Carriço’s opinion in Jornal de Negócios
Luís Carriço, Dean of Ciências ULisboa and an integrated member of LASIGE, was invited to give his perspective on 2025, as one of the 184 leaders of the Portuguese economy, in the newspaper “Jornal de Negócios”. Investment in research and knowledge by all sectors of society and the move towards efficient, modern and quality education […]