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Luís Pereira, Rui Pedro Oliveira and Tiago Pereira won third place in the Inter-University Programming Marathon, after solving six of the 11 problems presented to them in five hours. Participating in an international competition is the new challenge of CatamorfismUM, the name of the team composed of INESC TEC researchers.
04th December 2023
Mobilise, collaborate, invest. These were some of the words that characterised the debate promoted by INESC TEC during the 2023 edition of the Autumn Forum.
30th November 2023
INESC TEC has positioned itself as a distinctive partner in offshore wind energy; the collaboration with Gazelle Wind Power, the company that chose Portugal to develop and install an entire local supply chain for offshore wind energy production, is yet another step to excel in this ecosystem. The die is cast for the company's first floating platform, with tests expected to kick off at Aguçadoura, in Póvoa do Varzim.
29th November 2023
Promote the sustainability and diversification of the European aquaculture industry through algae-based solutions. This is the premise of the European project INNOAQUA.
28th November 2023
Hélder Oliveira, INESC TEC researcher, is the new chairman of the Portuguese Association for Pattern Recognition (APRP). APRP is a non-profit association whose objective is to promote advances, both theoretical and practical, in the scientific domain of pattern recognition. In this sense, it is responsible for organising numerous conferences, meetings and training courses and disseminating scientific and technical information.
28th November 2023
INESC TEC Science Bits was among the five nominees in the “Science, Technology and Education” category of the PODES awards – a national award that aims to acknowledge podcasts in different areas.
28th November 2023
Justino Rodrigues, INESC TEC researcher, was the big winner of the REN 2023 awards, in the category of "Best PhD thesis" in energy. In his thesis, developed within the scope of the Doctoral Programme in Sustainable Energy Systems of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) - and supervised by two INESC TEC researchers, Carlos Moreira and João Peças Lopes - Justino Rodrigues was able to test the incorporation of new functionalities for smart transformers applied to microgrids and multi-micro-grids; thanks to his work, the researcher received €30K.
24th November 2023
The Executive Master in Cybersecurity – a training programme by INESC TEC and Porto Business School (PSB), will start on February 19, with a one-year duration. The goal is to train experts who seek to protect digital assets and confidential data on the computer and network systems of their companies, government agencies or other organisations against cyberattacks.
22nd November 2023
INESC TEC participated in the project THEIA – “Automated Perception Driving”, a partnership between Bosch and the University of Porto, which presented results in September. The project focused on the development of sensors to improve road safety, and the Institute developed neural network architectures to improve autonomous vehicles’ perception of their surroundings.
20th November 2023
Research concluded that the use of compressed Artificial Intelligence (AI) models for facial recognition can lead to racial bias. The study, which also identifies a potential strategy to address this issue using synthetic data, received a Best Paper Award at the BIOSIG international conference.
17th November 2023
Developing open-source interoperability tools to improve the performance of distributed energy systems – this is the main objective of the European InterSTORE project, with INESC TEC as partner.
17th November 2023
The Asprela+Sustentável project focuses on transforming the Amial area into a pioneering model of solar energy management as a sustainable energy source. The municipal authorities of Porto, together with other partners – including INESC TEC – is already working on replicating this “square kilometre of sustainability” in other city locations.
17th November 2023