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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 […]
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 […]
CoCoA: An innovative solution to Detect Vulnerabilities in Encrypted Software Code while Ensuring Code Privacy
Rafael Ramires, Bernardo Ferreira, and Ibéria Medeiros, LASIGE researchers, and the former LASIGE researchers Jorge Martins and David Dantas, published a paper titled “Detecting Vulnerabilities in Encrypted Software Code while Ensuring Code Privacy”, in the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing , a top-ranked journal (impact factor 7.5 and H-index 117). The paper presents […]
LASIGE Summer of Research (2nd edition)
Following the success of the first edition and the interest shown by the students who approached us at the CIÊNCIAS ULisboa Jobshop 2026, as well as the strong support from the LASIGE Executive Committee, applications for the second edition of the LASIGE Summer of Research will open on 6 May 2026! “Don’t just study the […]
Alcides Fonseca Keynote Speaker at SLATE’2026
LASIGE integrated researcher Alcides Fonseca will deliver a keynote entitled “Æon: A Programming Language with Guardrails” at the SLATE’2026, an international symposium about languages, applications and technologies, on 25-26 June 2026, that will take place in Lisboa. Our researcher will explore the programming language Æon that supports different algorithms: LLMs, Genetic Programming and SMT Solvers, […]