NEWS
Distinguished Publications @ LASIGE Workshop 2026
The Executive Committee (Tiago Guerreiro, Cátia Pesquita, Vinicius Cogo and Rúben Gouveia) was pleased to award prizes, at the LASIGE Workshop 2026, to the following top-tier journals and conferences publications: Žygimantas Jasiūnas, Tiago Julião, José Cecílio, Guilherme Carrilho da Graça, and Pedro M. Ferreira. A soft sensor to assess the energy performance of laundry washing […]
LASIGE Workshop 2026
The 11th edition of the LASIGE Workshop took place on Wednesday, May 20, 2026, celebrating the vibrant and diverse research within the unit. This annual event once again provided a platform for sharing ongoing work and fostering collaboration among LASIGE members. This year’s program featured two keynote talks delivered by researchers from LASIGE, Helena Aidos […]
FCiências.ID Awards Pedro Ruas’s PhD thesis
Pedro Ruas, a former PhD student at LASIGE has been awarded by has been awarded by FCiências.ID for the excellence of his PhD thesis in Computer Science and Engineering. The PhD thesis has the title “Deep Semantic Entity Linking” and was defended in 2025. The goal of the PhD work focused on developing methods for […]
LASIGE participates Tec Labs’ 37th anniversary
On 18 May, Tec Labs, the catalyzer of Innovation and Entrepreneurship of CIÊNCIAS ULisboa, celebrated its 37th anniversary with the event “37 Years of Innovation – The Ideal Temperature for Ideas to Grow”. The programme was varied, and one of the highlights was the panel discussion “The trajectory of spin-offs: key challenges and lessons learnt”, […]
Cybersecurity Workshop – Malware & Honeypots, a LASIGE and Reykjavik University (Iceland) collaboration
Last May 4th, 2026, the first Cybersecurity Workshop was held at Ciências ULisboa (FCUL), resulting from the collaboration of researchers from LASIGE & Reykjavik University (RU, Iceland) in the context of the master’s course Methodologies Offensives and Defensives for Cybersecurity (MODC), administered by Ibéria Medeiros. The workshop focused on Malware & Honeypots, one of the […]
MaxData awards LASIGE’s PhD student Joel Samper (2024/25)
Joel Samper (Sam) was awarded the MaxData Informatic Excellence award for his PhD research, during the Ciências ULisboa 115th anniversary ceremony, which investigates technological approaches for safer image sharing in messaging apps in general, and nudes in particular. His work aims to expand the potential of technologies for having more privacy over intimate images, i.e., having […]