Every year MaxData acknowledges the best student of each of the Department of Informatics courses. The award is presented at the Ciências ULisboa anniversary ceremony. This year several LASIGE students were distinguished for their academic record (MSc) and research...
The paper “Learning dynamic Bayesian networks from time-dependent and time-independent data: Unraveling disease progression in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis” co-authored by Sara C. Madeira has been published in Journal of Biomedical Informatics, a top-ranked journal...
Former LASIGE’s PhD student (and currently, LASIGE researcher) André Rodrigues was awarded by FCiências.ID. His PhD thesis, titled “Human-Powered Smartphone Assistance for Blind People”, completed in 2020, was recognized by the institution as outstanding...
In 2021 Ciências ULisboa celebrates its 110th anniversary. The commemorative ceremony to mark the occasion took place today (April 21). Once again, due to the pandemic, it was an online ceremony. In the session dedicated to the recognition of excellence at Ciências...
Francisco M Couto presented the tutorial Biomedical Text Processing using Semantics at the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2021). The tutorial addressed the challenges encountered when processing the ever-increasing amount of biomedical text,...
Tiago Guerreiro, LASIGE integrated member, was the keynote speaker at the first “Workshop on Mobile and Pervasive Assistive Technologies” (MPAT’21), with “Designing Pervasive Assistive Technologies with Representative Users”, March 22,...
