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Carlos Duarte on World Accessibility Awareness Day
Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) is celebrated on May 15, 2025, to promote digital access and inclusion for over one billion people with disabilities worldwide. Carlos Duarte, LASIGE integrated member, has actively participated in various GAAD programs. During the morning he took part in the session “Technologies to break communication and interaction barriers to access […]
LASIGE publishes in IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Joel Samper and Bernardo Ferreira, LASIGE researchers, have published a paper titled “SoK: Self-Generated Nudes over Private Chats: How Can Technology Contribute to a Safer Sexting?”, in the Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP’25), a top cybersecurity conference (Core A*). The paper studies how technology can help improve the security […]
INTELLIGi project for the Portuguese Public Administration
The INTELLIGi project aims at proposing a low-cost cybersecurity solution integrating enriched threat intelligence to identify and analyse cyber-risks proactively and enhance threat detection capabilities. The project relies on a pilot running at the IT Services Unit of the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, who is an INTELLIGi partner. The solution to develop […]
FCiências.ID Awards Rita Sousa’s PhD thesis
Rita Sousa, a former PhD student at LASIGE, and current PhD collaborator, has been awarded by FCiências.ID for the excellence of her PhD thesis in Computer Science and Engineering. Her thesis, “Semantic perspectives for learning over biomedical knowledge graphs”, was defended in 2024. The PhD work focused on developing novel methods to generate representations of […]
LASIGE Summer of Research
LASIGE Summer of Research is a new initiative developed by our PhD students, Ruben Branco, Catarina Gamboa, David Gonçalves, Diogo Branco, Hugo Simão, and Paulo Canelas, with the support of the LASIGE Executive Committee. The program aims to enrich the training experience of early-stage students and support the development of future researchers through hands-on, mentored […]
LASIGE with Strong Presence at CHI 2025
LASIGE researchers showed a strong presence at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025), the flagship venue in HCI (CORE A*). The team presented four full papers, including a best paper honorable mention award, a SIGCHI Societal Impact Award, one late-breaking work (LBW), and two workshop papers. These research efforts span […]