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Endometriosis Tracking Tech for Trans and Gender-Diverse Users?
This is a question that our researchers Sara Canhoto, LASIGE MSc student, and Rúben Gouveia and Tiago Guerreiro, both integrated members, sought to answer by adopting 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 […]
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 and Ciências hosted the Technovation Girls Challenge Portugal’s final
João Pedro Carvalho, LASIGE integrated members, was one of the organizers of the final of the Technovation Girls Challenge Portugal, which was held at Ciências ULisboa on 23 May 2025, in Lisbon. Alysson Bessani (Department of Informatics Director), António Casimiro (Deputy Director of the Ciências ULisboa), and Sara Silva, integrated members of LASIGE, also cooperated […]
LASIGE @ “Feitos do Futuro”
On 23 May 2026, at “Feitos do Futuro”, the University of Lisbon was transformed into a living laboratory where people could step into virtual realities, programme robots, explore the human body, or listen to the ocean like in ways they have never done before. Isabel Neto and João Pereira, LASIGE integrated member and an MSc […]
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 […]