EARLY – PhagE towARds initiaL amYloide-beta was one of the three big winners of the Financing Contest for Proof of Concept – iProof . This project, led by Ivone Martins, researcher at CEB, developed a tool based on bacteriophages (bacterial viruses), for early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, with high therapeutic […]
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Edgar Xavier Carvalho Pinto, 3rd year student of the Degree in Biomedical Engineering, and Catarina de Abreu Felgueiras were two of the fifteen UMinho students competing for the 3rd edition of the UMinho Award for Initiation in Scientific Research 2022. The students from the School of Engineering presented on December […]
António Gomes Correia, retired Professor from EEUM and Professor Emeritus from UMinho, was awarded the title of Honorary President of the Portuguese Geotechnical Society (SPG) in the evocative session of the 50th Anniversary of SPG, and integrated in the commemoration programme of the 75th anniversary of the Laboratório Nacional de […]
Beatriz da Silva Simões and Beatriz Silva de Freitas, Master’s students in Industrial Electronics and Computer Engineering were awarded merit scholarships by the E-REDES Top Women Scholarship Programme. This E-REDES initiative aims to attract young women finalists of master’s degrees in the areas of Electrical and Computer Engineering, by awarding […]
“Endowing Intelligent Vehicles with the Ability to Learn User’s Habits and Preferences with Machine Learning Methods”, by ALGORITMI researchers Carlos Fernandes, Estela Bicho, Flora Ferreira, Paulo Barbosa, Pedro Guimarães, Sérgio Monteiro, Weronika Wojtak, and also CMAT researcher Wolfram Erlhagen, was published in the 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering […]
The study by Paulo Sérgio Almeida, INESC TEC researcher and professor at the University of Minho, focuses on Bloom Filters, a very popular probabilistic data structure in the design of databases, distributed systems, and communication networks. The study, which demonstrates the versatility of partitioned Bloom Filters, was accepted for publication […]
Paulo Novais, professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, was awarded the “Career Recognition Award” by the Ibero-American Society of Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA), for his scientific contributions to artificial intelligence and to the development of the community in this area. The distinction was awarded during the […]
A team of INESC TEC researchers working on the Alloy language and specification tool presented the QAlloy extension at the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), a top conference in the area of software engineering that took place between November 14 […]
The RISC2 project, which aims to promote and improve the relationship between research and innovation communities in Europe and Latin America, won the HPCwire Editor’s Choice Awards in the category of Best HPC Collaboration. The project was acknowledged at the annual HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards, presented at the […]
Two students from the School of Engineering of UMinho were distinguished with grants from the New Talents Programme of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. These awards annually recognise the value of exceptional students in Portuguese higher education, promoting talent and stimulating their path of initiation into research. In this year’s edition, […]
A research team from the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, composed of members of the Departments of Industrial Electronics (Sérgio Coelho and Carlos Martins) and Mechanical Engineering (Professor Caetano Monteiro), went to Maputo in order to monitor the work developed under the PV4SUSTAINABILITY project. After the welcome […]
Sílvia Fernandes, researcher at the BIOSYSTEMS Group of the Centre of Biological Engineering, and undertaking her PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering, was awarded at the international conference European Biotechnology Congress 2022, held in Prague, Czech Republic. She won the 3rd place of the best oral presentations with the topic: […]