08May2026
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08May2026
IEETA researchers contribute to Environmental Justice research
The ALICE is a pioneer multidisciplinary research project focused on studying how the socio-economic context impacts exposure and perceived exposure to air pollution in Portugal. This project brings together researchers from CESAM, GOVCOPP, and IEETA from University of Aveiro and from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra. A key concept in this […]
07May2026
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07May2026
IEETA welcomes Professor Barry Nuqoba from Universitas Airlangga
This week, IEETA welcomed Professor Barry Nuqoba from Universitas Airlangga (Indonesia) under ICM Mobility program. Professor Nuqoba is a lecturer and researcher in Computer Science focusing on data science, machine learning, and causal analysis, applied to ageing, health, and social well-being. Hosted by Professor António Neves, Professor Nuqoba delivered a seminar talk on “Modeling and […]
06May2026
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06May2026
IEETA Researcher Sónia Gouveia discusses challenges of AI in computation
This week, Sónia Gouveia participated in the cycle “Física à Conversa” dedicated to the discussion of the main challenges for computation in this new era of emerging Artificial Intelligence(AI) organised by the Department of Physics of Aveiro University. The panel discussion was moderated by Miguel Zilhão (DFis/CIDMA), and beyond the academic perspective conveyed by Sónia […]
29Apr2026
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29Apr2026
FC Portugal Secures 2nd Place at RoboCup Portugal Open 2026
FC Portugal successfully reached the 2nd place at the RoboCup Portugal Open 2026 that took place in Barcelos, Portugal, from April 23 to 25. FC Portugal competes in the Soccer Simulation 3D league, where simulated humanoid robots play 7 vs 7 soccer. The simulated robots are entirely autonomous. This means the human participants are merely […]
23Apr2026
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23Apr2026
PhD Students Seminar – April 2026
This week another edition of the PhD Students Seminar took place. PhD students Nuno Gomes and David Almeida, both attending the MAPi program presented their ongoing research. Nuno Gomes discussed how AI can drive DevSecOps framework to overcome the limitations of traditional validation in rapid delivery cycles. David Almeida presented his most recent published research […]
15Apr2026
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15Apr2026
IEETA PhD Students Seminar
Last Wednesday, IEETA hosted another session of the PhD Students Seminar cycle. This seminar cycle aims at promoting the research developed within IEETA, while providing the opportunity for students to share their work in a supportive environment. Speakers on this edition were PhD students Sérgio Oliveira (MAPi) and Adriano Gomes (MAP-PDMA) presented their ongoing research […]
09Apr2026
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09Apr2026
Richard Jonker presents knowledge-anchored generation of synthetic data at ECIR 2026
Richard Jonker, PhD student at IEETA, was at ECIR 2026 presenting BioGraphletQA, a framework for systematically generating complex, factually-grounded Question Answering (QA) data. The core of this framework is a novel graphlet-anchored generation process, where small subgraphs from a Knowledge Graph are used as a factual base to control the complexity and ensure the grounding […]
19Mar2026
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19Mar2026
Ana Martins Presents Space-Time Count Models at SMSA 2026
This week, IEETA researcher Ana Martins, presented her research work on the development of space-time models for count time series at the 16th Workshop on Stochastic Models, Statistics and Their Applications (SMSA), at the University of Würzburg, Germany. Recent advances in areas related to stochastic modeling, statistical inference, statistical learning and their applications are the […]
16Mar2026
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16Mar2026
V APRP Spring Meeting
Last Friday, IEETA hosted the V Spring Meeting of APRP. This event sponsored by the Portuguese Association on Pattern Recognition (APRP) brings together the community to discuss the current advances and challenges in data science research. David Semedo, from NOVA School of Science and Technology, delivered an amazing presentation about AMALIA: An Open Source Large […]
06Mar2026
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06Mar2026
Meeting with stroke survivors at IEETA
The GAM Aveiro (a support group for stroke survivors) held its February meeting on day 25 at IEETA. The meeting provided an opportunity to share ideas and experiences with stroke survivors to better understand their needs and expectations. During the session, ten stroke survivors were also invited to experience several collaborative virtual reality games developed […]