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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, […]
Robots 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?
This is a question that our researchers Sara Canhoto, MSc student, and Tiago Guerreiro and Rúben Gouveia (IR), 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 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 […]
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 […]