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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 members honoured on the 114th anniversary of Ciências ULisboa
LASIGE members among those distinguished by Ciências ULisboa (CIÊNCIAS) on its 114th anniversary, 29 April 2025. The event was dedicated to the recognition of excellence at CIÊNCIAS and, once again, several LASIGE students and teachers were recognized for their work accomplishments: Maxdata Informatics Awards of Excellence 2023/2024 (awarded to the best students of the Department […]
LASIGE’s opinion article in SAPO.pt
Ana Luísa Respício, Ana Paula Afonso, Cátia Pesquita, and Teresa Chambel, LASIGE integrated members, were invited to write an opinion piece in the newspaper SAPO.pt on 24 April 2025, on gender balance in the technology sector, celebrating the Girls in ICT Day and entitled ‘Young women in ICT are an opportunity for growth’. Some young […]
Alcides Fonseca introduces Liquid Types-based Genetic Programming at the University of Tsukuba
Alcides Fonseca, LASIGE integrated researcher, visited the Claus Aranha Lab at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, in April 2025, where he gave a talk on Program Synthesis with Liquid Types. This talk covered the papers submitted at PPSN’20, GPTP’21, GPCE’22, EuroGP’23, ICSE’23, GECCO’23, GECCO’24, describing how liquid types can help programmers write programs with less bugs, […]
Alcides Fonseca visits the Higo Lab
Alcides Fonseca, LASIGE integrated researcher, visited the Higo Software Engineering Lab (Higo Lab) at the University of Osaka, Japan, in April 2025, presenting his work on the usability of liquid types, joint with LASIGE PhD students Catarina Gamboa and Paulo Canelas. The presentation covered two empirical studies, one presenting the advantages of liquid types in […]
LASIGE members awarded with EDCC Distinguished Paper and Posters Awards
EDCC distinguished the paper “Towards a Simple and Practical Blockchain Consensus Protocol” by Tiago Antão, Hasan Heydari, Alysson Bessani, members of LASIGE. EDCC in this 2025 edition also distinguished the three best posters by the voting of participants, two of which were to LASIGE members, namely “Towards Real-Time Malware Classification Through Honeypot Analysis” by Miguel […]