The 10th edition of the LASIGE Workshop took place on Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 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 distinguished researchers from LASIGE. André Rodrigues reflected on his ten years as a researcher at LASIGE, sharing lessons learned throughout his PhD studies and his early years as a postdoctoral researcher. He discussed topics such as the frustrations of paper submission, securing funding, evolving research goals, and collaborating with external teams.
Francisco Couto focused on the critical yet elusive role of context in biomedical text processing. He presented his team’s efforts to move away from an ever-increasing demand for unsustainable computational power toward a smarter, more context-aware approach.
A regular highlight of the event is the award ceremony, which celebrates the achievements of LASIGE members over the past year. Awards were distributed across several categories, recognising contributions that ranged from societal impact to academic excellence.
Best Outreach Initiative
Vinícius Cogo was recognised for coordinating LASIGE’s involvement in the Digital Innovation Hub ATTRACT-DIH. This initiative has fostered industry engagement, providing tangible services while also contributing to research, as evidenced by participation in scientific conferences and the advanced training of MSc students. The services offered are multidisciplinary, enabling researchers from all of LASIGE’s research areas to participate. ATTRACT-DIH serves as a gateway for building trust and showcasing LASIGE’s value to external partners. It connects our research to real societal and economic challenges, supports student training, promotes collaboration, and enhances the unit’s visibility in the external community.
Best PhD Student
David Gonçalves received the top honour, with Diogo Soares and Paulo Canelas receiving honourable mentions for their exceptional contributions.
Best Early Career Researcher
André Rodrigues was recognised for his scientific output throughout 2024.
Distinguished Publications
This category highlighted research published in top-tier journals and conferences, underscoring LASIGE’s commitment to excellence in research.
1. Bakary Badjie, José Cecílio, and Antonio Casimiro. Adversarial attacks and countermeasures on image classification-based deep learning models in autonomous driving systems: a systematic review. ACM Computing Surveys, 57(1):1-52, 2024.
2. Breno Sousa, Naercio Magaia, Sara Silva, Nguyen Thanh Hieu, and Yong Liang Guan. Vehicle-to-vehicle flooding datasets using MK5 on-board unit devices. Scientific Data, 11, 2024.
3. Chloe Hinchliffe, Rana Zia Ur Rehman, Clemence Pinaud, Diogo Branco, Dan Jackson, Teemu Ahmaniemi, Tiago Guerreiro, Meenakshi Chatterjee, Nikolay V. Manyakov, Ioannis Pandis, Kristen Davies, Victoria Macrae, Svenja Aufenberg, Emma Paulides, Hanna Hildesheim, Jennifer Kudelka, Kirsten Emmert, Geert Van Gassen, Lynn Rochester, C. Janneke Woude, Ralf Reilmann, Walter Maetzler, Wan-Fai Ng, and Silvia Del Din. Evaluation of walking activity and gait to identify physical and mental fatigue in neurodegenerative and immune disorders: preliminary insights from the IDEA-FAST feasibility study. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 21, 2024.
4. Daniel Faria, Patrícia Eugénio, Marta Contreiras Silva, Laura Balbi, Georges Bedran, Ashwin Adrian Kallor, Susana Nunes, Aleksander Palkowski, Michal Waleron, Javier A Alfaro, and Catia Pesquita. The immunopeptidomics ontology (ImPO). Database, 2024, 2024.
5. Daniela M. Amaral, Diogo F. Soares, Marta Gromicho, Mamede Carvalho, Sara C. Madeira, Pedro Tomás, and Helena Aidos. Temporal stratification of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis patients using disease progression patterns. Nature Communications, 15, 2024.
6. Daniela Moutinho, Vera M. Mendes, Alessandro Caula, Sara C. Madeira, Inês Baldeiras, Manuela Guerreiro, Sandra Cardoso, Johan Gobom, Henrik Zetterberg, Isabel Santana, Alexandre De Mendonça, Helena Aidos and Bruno Manadas. Pathophysiological subtypes of mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer’s disease identified by CSF proteomics. Translational Neurodegeneration, 13, 2024.
7. Diana Costa, Andreia Mordido, Diogo Poças, and Vasco T. Vasconcelos. Polymorphic higher-order context-free session types. Theoretical Computer Science, 1001, 2024.
8. Diogo F. Soares, Rui Henriques, and Sara C. Madeira. Comprehensive assessment of triclustering algorithms for three-way temporal data analysis. Pattern Recognition, 150, 2024.
9. Eduardo Castanho, Helena Aidos and Sara C. Madeira. Biclustering data analysis: a comprehensive survey. Briefings in Bioinformatics, 25(4), 2024.
10. F. O. Franca, M. Virgolin, M. Kommenda, M. S. Majumder, M. Cranmer, Guilherme Espada, Leon Ingelse, Alcides Fonseca, M. Landajuela, B. Petersen, R. Glatt, N. Mundhenk, C. S. Lee, J. D. Hochhalter, D. L. Randall, P. Kamienny, H. Zhang, G. Dick, A. Simon, B. Burlacu, Jaan Kasak, Meera Machado, Casper Wilstrup and W. G. La Cavaz. SRBench++: principled benchmarking of symbolic regression with domain-expert interpretation. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 2024.
11. Harry Buhrman, Marten Folkertsma, Bruno Loff, and Niels M. P. Neumann. State preparation by shallow circuits using feed forward. Quantum, 8, 2024.
12. Hugo Simão, David Gonçalves, Ana C. Pires, Lúcia Abreu, Alexandre Bernardino, Jodi Forlizzi, and Tiago Guerreiro. “I Want to Send a Message to My Friend”: exploring the shift of agency to older adults in HRI. International Journal of Social Robotics, 16:1721-1734, 2024.
13. Jacob Tanner, Joshua Faskowitz, Andreia Sofia Teixeira, Caio Seguin, Ludovico Coletta, Alessandro Gozzi, Bratislav Mišić, and Richard F. Betzel. A multi-modal, asymmetric, weighted, and signed description of anatomical connectivity. Nature Communications, 15, 2024.
14. João E. Batista, Adam K. Pindur, Ana I.R. Cabral, Hitoshi Iba, and Sara Silva. Complexity, interpretability and robustness of GP-based feature engineering in remote sensing. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 92, 2024.
15. Ligia Moriguchi Watanabe, Lisete Sousa, Francisco M. Couto, Natália Yumi Noronha, Marcela Augusta Souza Pinhel, Gleyson Francisco Silva Carvalho, Guilherme Silva Rodrigues, Carlos Roberto Bueno Júnior, Leslie Domenici Kulikowski, Fernando Barbosa Júnior and Carla Barbosa Nonino. Genome-wide admixture and association study of serum selenium deficiency to identify genetic variants indirectly linked to selenium regulation in Brazilian adults. Nutrients, 16(11):2024.
16. Mariano Lemus, Ricardo Faleiro, Paulo Mateus, Nikola Paunković, and André Souto. Quantum Kolmogorov complexity and quantum correlations in deterministic-control quantum Turing machines. Quantum, 8, 2024.
17. Matilde Pato, Márcia Barros, and Francisco M. Couto. Survey on recommender systems for biomedical items in life and health sciences. ACM Computing Surveys, 56(6):1-32, 2024.
18. Miguel G. Silva, Sara C. Madeira, and Rui Henriques. A comprehensive survey on biclustering-based collaborative filtering. ACM Computing Surveys, 56(12):1-32, 2024.
19. Nuno Miguel Rodrigues, José Guilherme Almeida, Ana Sofia Castro Verde, Ana Mascarenhas Gaivão, Carlos Bilreiro, Inês Santiago, Joana Ip, Sara Belião, Raquel Moreno, Celso Matos, Leonardo Vanneschi, Manolis Tsiknakis, Kostas Marias, Daniele Regge, Sara Silva, and Nickolas Papanikolaou. Analysis of domain shift in whole prostate gland, zonal and lesions segmentation and detection, using multicentric retrospective data. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 171, 2024.
20. Pedro Antunes and Mary Tate. “What’s Going On” with BizDevOps: a qualitative review of BizDevOps practice. Computers in Industry, 157-158, 2024. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2024.104081. ISI: Q1.
21. Pedro Bandeiras Cardoso, Ana Respício, and Dulce Domingos. A granular risk analysis approach for IoT-aware business processes. IEEE Access, 12:142058-142070, 2024.
22. Pedro Pais, David Gonçalves, Kathrin Gerling, Teresa Romão, Tiago Guerreiro, and André Rodrigues. Promoting family play through asymmetric game design. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8(CSCW1):1-24, 2024.
23. Rita T. Sousa, Sara Silva and Catia Pesquita. Explaining protein–protein interactions with knowledge graph-based semantic similarity. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 170, 2024.
24. Samaneh Shafee, Alysson Bessani, and Pedro M. Ferreira. Evaluation of LLM-based chatbots for OSINT-based Cyber Threat Awareness. Expert Systems with Applications, 261, 2025. (first available online on October 11, 2024)
25. Sérgio Alves, Ricardo Costa, Kyle Montague and Tiago Guerreiro. Citizen-led personalization of user interfaces: investigating how people customize interfaces for themselves and others. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8(CSCW2):1-23, 2024.
26. Vasco V. Branco, César Capinha, Jorge Rocha, Luís Correia, and Pedro Cardoso. SPECTRE: Standardised Global Spatial Data on Terrestrial SPecies and ECosystems ThREats. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34(1), 2025. (first available online on December 13, 2024).
27. Daniela Lopes, Jin-Dong Dong, Daniel Castro, Pedro Medeiros, Diogo Barradas, Bernardo Portela, João Vinagre, Bernardo Ferreira, Nicolas Christin and Nuno Santos. Flow correlation attacks on Tor onion service sessions with Sliding Subset Sum. In Proceedings of the 2024 Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium. Internet Society, 2024.
28. David Gonçalves, Daniel Barros, Pedro Pais, João Guerreiro, Tiago Guerreiro, and André Rodrigues. The Trick Is To Stay Behind?: defining and exploring the design space of player balancing mechanics. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’24), pages 1-16. ACM, 2024.
29. Diogo Avelas, Hasan Heydari, Eduardo Alchieri, Tobias Distler, and Alysson Bessani. Probabilistic Byzantine fault tolerance. In Proceedings of the 43rd ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC’24), pages 170-181. ACM, 2024. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3662158.3662810. CORE: A*.
30. Diogo Branco, Margarida Móteiro, Raquel Bouça-Machado, Rita Miranda, Tiago Reis, Élia Decoroso, Rita Cardoso, Joana Ramalho, Filipa Rato, Joana Malheiro, Diana Miranda, Verónica Caniça, Filipa Pona-Ferreira, Daniela Guerreiro, Mariana Leitão, Alexandra Saúde Braz, Joaquim J Ferreira, and Tiago Guerreiro. Co-designing customizable clinical dashboards with multidisciplinary teams: bridging the gap in chronic disease care. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’24), pages 1-18. ACM, 2024.
5. Henry DeYoung, Andreia Mordido, Frank Pfenning, and Ankush Das. Parametric subtyping for structural parametric polymorphism. In 51st ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2024). Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, vol. 8, pages 2700-2730. 2024.
6. João Janeiro, Sérgio Alves, Tiago Guerreiro, Florian Alt, and Verena Distler. Understanding phishing experiences of screen reader users. IEEE Security & Privacy, 22(5):63-72, 2024.
7. João P. Ferreira, Filipa Ferreira-Brito, João Guerreiro and Tiago Guerreiro. Crafting virtual realities: designing a VR end-user authoring platform for personalised Exposure Therapy. In 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), pages 932-940. IEEE, 2024.
8. Letícia Seixas Pereira, Maria Matos, and Carlos Duarte. Exploring mobile device accessibility: challenges, insights, and recommendations for evaluation methodologies. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’24), pages 1-17. ACM, 2024.
9. Paulo Canelas, Trenton Tabor, John-Paul Ore, Alcides Fonseca, Claire Le Goues, and Christopher S. Timperley. Is it a bug? Understanding physical unit mismatches in robot software. In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pages 4819-4826. IEEE, 2024.
10. Pedro Pais, David Gonçalves, Daniel Reis, João Cadete Nunes Godinho, João Filipe Morais, Manuel Piçarra, Pedro Trindade, Dmitry Alexandrovsky, Kathrin Gerling, João Guerreiro, and André Rodrigues. A living framework for understanding cooperative games. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’24), pages 1-17. ACM, 2024.
11. Renato Alexandre Ribeiro, Inês Gonçalves, Manuel Piçarra, Letícia Seixas Pereira, Carlos Duarte, André Rodrigues, and João Guerreiro. Investigating virtual reality locomotion techniques with blind people. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’24), pages 1-17. ACM, 2024.
As in previous editions, students had the opportunity to present their current research during the poster session, where participants selected the two best posters.
Best Poster
The first place was awarded to “A low-cost acoustic bird identification and classification system for biodiversity monitoring” by Diogo Anjos, Duarte Gonçalves, Wellington Oliveira, Fernando Ascensão, Sara Silva, and José Cecílio. The runner-up was “A soft sensor to assess the energy performance of laundry washing machines” by Zygimantas Jasiunas, José Cecílio, and Pedro M. Ferreira.
All the posters are available here.
The LASIGE Workshop continues to be a key highlight in the unit’s calendar, reinforcing community ties and showcasing the excellence driving its research initiatives.