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Alexandra Mendes, a researcher at INESC TEC, received the Amazon Research Award in automated reasoning. This is the first time this award has been granted to researchers who carry out their R&D work in Portugal.
27th June 2025
The observation and analysis of TikTok usage data have allowed researchers from INESC TEC to draw some conclusions about the techniques used in political content, as well as to categorise the posts with the most successful outcomes.
27th June 2025
Supporting physicians in making complex and rare clinical decisions is the goal of MedLink, a tool developed by researchers at INESC TEC, which won the Best Demo Paper award at the European Conference on Information Retrieval—one of the most prestigious conferences in Europe in the field of information retrieval.
08th May 2025
The VISIGRAPP 2025 - 20th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - took place in Porto, in late February. It brought together more than 380 researchers and professionals interested in keeping up with and discussing theoretical advances and applications in Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Human-Computer Interaction, and Information Visualisation - the main themes of the co-located conferences VISAPP, GRAPP, HUCAPP, and IVAPP, respectively. One of the co-chairs of this conference was INESC TEC researcher A. Augusto de Sousa.
27th March 2025
It's hard to think of current technologies or innovations that do not resort to Language Models (LM) or Natural Language Processing (NLP). Their presence in various society domains - some with significant relevance, like the legal or healthcare sectors - raise issues (and concerns) that often end up focusing on the same question: are LM-based technologies reaching all communities? Recently, two scientific papers featuring INESC TEC - both accepted at AAAI, an A* conference - sought to address some of the challenges in this new era, which directly influence the Portuguese language.
28th February 2025
The seasonality of search queries in search engines could be a factor for online businesses to consider if they seek to improve the ranking of their results. A new demo-paper featuring INESC TEC explored the creation of a database to present the Occasion-aware Recommender solution.
26th February 2025
INESC TEC researchers developed a study that aims to make adaptive variational quantum algorithms more efficient, thus reducing computational costs and make quantum computing more accessible and efficient.
21st February 2025
Alexandra Ramôa, Ana Neri and Bruna Salgado, INESC TEC researchers in the field of quantum computing – together with Sara Franco, INL researcher – won second place in the PQHack 2025 competition, as the Team Quantum SHEmulation. The results achieved have potential application in neuroscience, seismology, ecology, and finance.
17th February 2025
The main goal of the PTicola project was to expand and build new Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities for the Portuguese language. The results of this project - which include, for example, an English/European Portuguese translator and a PT-BR/PT-PT language variety identifier - address the gap in NLP resources available for PT-PT compared to PT-BR.
14th February 2025
FRODDO - this is the name of the project that will improve the safety and robustness of autonomous and connected systems, e.g., self-driving cars, through the development and testing of technological solutions, thus supporting user-centred mobility. INESC TEC is one of the partners of this European project, with a funding of almost six million euros, under the Horizon Europe programme.
07th February 2025
Daniela Pedrosa, INESC TEC's researcher, took on the position of editing manager responsible for the publications of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN), after four years as publication chairon the organising committee of the conference promoted by the association.
04th February 2025
Five years have passed since INESC TEC and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), in Japan, signed the first Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). This scientific cooperation agreement, focused on advanced computing, led to major opportunities for mobility, joint publications and the exchange of knowledge and experiences, thus bringing the Portuguese and Japanese R&D ecosystems closer together – particularly in High-Performance Computing (HPC). Recently, the two institutes renewed the MoU and will continue to work together to boost research in advanced computing.
03rd February 2025