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Household resource efficiency and personalised energy feedback
Zygimantas Jasiunas, a PhD student supervised by Pedro M. Ferreira and José Cecílio, published the paper titled “Household Laundry Appliance Resource Consumption and Operation Dataset” in the journal “Scientific Data,” which has an impact factor of 6.9 and ranks in the top 5% of the Scimago Journal Ranking. The LARCO dataset bridges the gap between official […]
LASIGE with Strong Presence at CHI 2026
LASIGE researchers showed a strong presence at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025), the flagship venue in HCI (CORE A*), held in Barcelona from 13 to 17 April 2026. The team presented six full papers and two posters, as well as organized two meetups, one workshop, and an interactive […]
Will hybrid quantum-classical methods be effective in eliminating gaps and misaligned regions in DNA sequencing?
Curious about this issue our researchers Helena Maki, MSc student, and André Souto (IR), integrated member, and Margarida Carvalho (BioISI) are seeking to answer at the QUICK-DNA project, a project that was awarded funding through the competitive LASIGE Seed Projects Call 2025. The QUICK-DNA (Quantum Innovation for Computational Knowledge in DNA) project has officially started at LASIGE, […]
Can robots be political influencers?
This is a question that our researchers Hugo Simão and João Pedro Pereira, PhD student and MSc student, respectively, and Tiago Guerreiro and Isabel Neto (IR), both integrated members, are seeking to answer at the RobotsVote project, a project that was awarded funding through the competitive LASIGE Seed Projects Call 2025. Large language models (LLMs) […]
Endometriosis Tracking Tech for Trans and Gender-Diverse Users
Our researchers Sara Canhoto, MSc student, and Tiago Guerreiro and Rúben Gouveia (IR), both integrated members, sought to adopt an inclusive design approach, as part of the IBD project, a project that was awarded funding through the competitive LASIGE Seed Projects Call 2025. This research explored the experiences of transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) individuals with […]
FCiências.ID Awards Pedro Ruas’s PhD thesis
Pedro Ruas, a former PhD student at LASIGE 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 entity linking, the task […]