Event type: Lectures

Paulo Marques, CMU Portugal Scientific Director and Co-founder at Feedzai, the first startup created under the scope of the CMU Portugal Program, will host the talk “From Zero to Unicorn Status: the role of AI in fighting fraud and money laundering worldwide”, on Wednesday 29 at 12pm (Pittsburgh) at CMU (SCR 265 and Zoom).

Abstract: Increased levels of online purchasing and reliance on remote banking during the Covid-19 pandemic created an ideal environment for innovative and enterprising criminals. The United Nations estimates that 2-5% of global GDP, or $800 billion – $2 trillion in current US dollars, is lost to fraud and money laundering risks such as impersonation scams, advanced fee fraud, investment scams, exploitation of government support, monkey mules and account takeovers, and falsification of financial documents. Whether or not you have been directly a target of financial crime, the consequences of global money laundering and fraud extract a social cost that greatly affects us all.

Bio: Paulo Marques is a CMU Portugal Scientific Director. He is the Co-founder and Technical Fellow at Feedzai, the first startup created under the scope of the CMU Portugal program.  He served as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Feedzai for 13 years, since its inception. Before founding Feedzai, Paulo was the Director of the Carnegie Mellon University Portugal Professional Master in Software and had a dual appointment at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Coimbra. Over the years, he led a large number of projects for the European Space Agency, Microsoft Research, and Siemens among other companies. Paulo holds a Ph.D. in Distributed Systems, and he has authored over 40 peer-reviewed papers as well as a book. He is currently the Scientific Director of the CMUPortugal program, member of the Forbes Technology Council and an early-stage investor.

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The MSE Speaker Series aims to raise awareness about diversity, new ideas and emerging technology in software engineering. The program invites engineers, practitioners, scholars, policymakers, and other thought leaders who have demonstrated excellence in their careers and have acquired knowledge in areas of strategic importance to our students and faculty to the university for discussions on timely issues.

Hospital da Luz Learning Health has organized since June 2022, a series of Seminars on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare. The closing Webinar “AI in Healthcare: Trustworthy and controlled data synthesis” will take place on March 9 at 5pm, both onsite at Hospital da Luz (Auditório 2) and remotely.

Throughout this series of seminars, invited speakers shared their contributions and ideas on Advanced Analytics in Healthcare. The last session, will have Liliana Ferreira, Fraunhofer Portugal President and Research Center for Assistive Information and Communication Solutions (AICOS) Director as speaker.

This initiative is promoted under the scope of CMU Portugal Large Scale project IntelligentCare. 

The Seminar will be held both onsite and online. Registration is free but mandatory.

On February 11th, to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (IDWGIS) the CMU Portugal National Co-Director and President at INESC ID, will be part of Ciência Viva celebrations.

Inês Lynce is one of the invited speakers of the Roundtable “Pergunta-me o que é ser cientista” (Ask me what it means to be a scientist), where female researchers and university students from different areas of science (engineering, information technology, physics and mathematics) will speak about what it means to be a “woman in science” in each of their fields.

The IDWGIS at Pavilhão do Conhecimento will be entirely dedicated to promoting activities to encourage and promote access for all girls and women to training and education in the field of science.

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At this online Info Session, we will walk you through the application process to a CMU Portugal Program Dual Degree Ph.D. scholarship, which will confer a Dual Degree Ph.D. both by Carnegie Mellon University and a partner Portuguese University. This session is an excellent opportunity to gather information on how to successfully submit your application to a CMU Portugal scholarship that will allow you to spend 3 years in Portugal and 2 years at Carnegie Mellon University.

A Call is currently open for 6 Scholarships in 7 different Ph.D. Programs: Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineering and Public Policy, Human-Computer Interaction, Language Technologies, Robotics, or Software Engineering.

More about the 2022 Call here.

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Registration is free but mandatory for the online Info Session. On the day before the event, you will receive by email the login credentials to attend the Zoom Webinar.

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“Anomaly detection in large graphs” is the topic of the fifth and last session of the “AIDA Webinar Series”, an initiative promoted by the CMU Portugal project AIDA with CMU Portugal support.

The Webinar will take place online on September 30 at 3pm (UTC +1) Christos Faloutsos (Carnegie Mellon University) as main speaker, and also joining the session as speakers Jeremy Lee (Carnegie Mellon University), Mirela Teixeira Cazzolato (Carnegie Mellon University and University of São Paulo), Saranya Vijayakumar.

The session will be moderated by Pedro Fidalgo from the Project company promoter Mobileum.

Summary Webinar #5: Given a large who-calls-whom graph, how can we find patterns and anomalies? In this presentation we will discuss some patterns that several real graphs seem to obey (small diameter, power-law degree distributions), and how to use them for anomaly detection in real settings, like Mobileum’s call-graph, and other social networks.

For more information you can visit the AIDA  webpage and subscribe the newsletter by filling this subscription page.

Hospital da Luz Learning Health is organizing a series of Seminars on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare. The first session will take place on June 23 at 4:30 pm (Lisbon). This initiative is promoted under the scope of CMU Portugal Large Scale project IntelligentCare. 

Throughout this series of seminars, invited speakers will share their contributions and ideas on Advanced Analytics in Healthcare. The first session, “A blueprint of the AI-enabled hospital: Data, infrastructure, algorithms, and applications,” will have Jorge Cardoso as the speaker.

The Seminar will be held both onsite and online. Registration is free but mandatory.

The complete Program of the Series of Seminars is, and further information about the initiative is available.

On May 25 at 3pm will take place the  10th edition of the Distinguished Lecture of the Department of Computer Science and NOVA Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics at FCT NOVA. Fernando Pereira is the invited speaker with the  lecture  “Does Language Mirror the Mind? A Personal Journey”.

Fernando Pereira is the Google (USA) Vice President and Engineering Fellow, and leader of natural language and machine learning projects  and  member of CMU Portugal External Review Committee.

The Distinguished Lecture will take place in the Main Auditorium of NOVA School of Science and Technology | FCT NOVA organized by the Department of Computer Science and NOVA Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics led by Luis Caires, NOVA LINCS Director and CMU Portugal Scientific Director.

Lecture: Does Language Mirror the Mind? A Personal Journey

Over 20 years ago, I wrote the following in an invited paper:

Given the enormous conceptual and technical difficulties of building a comprehensive theory of grounded language processing, treating language as an autonomous system is very tempting. However, there is a weaker form of grounding that can be exploited more readily than physical grounding, namely grounding in a linguistic context. Following this path, sentences can be viewed as evidence for other sentences through inference, and the effectiveness of a language processor may be measured by its accuracy in deciding whether a sentence entails another, or whether an answer is appropriate for a question.

This path turned out to be even more productive than I imagined, though with different technical tools than the ones I favored then. So, is language-internal modeling all we need for creating language-using systems that pass the (Turing?) test? I will illustrate the question with a sequence of examples drawn from the work of many collaborators and colleagues, not answering it decisively, but still marveling at how so much of the contents and processes of our minds can be mechanically inferred from our constant chatter.

Fernando Pereira bio:

Fernando Pereira is Vice President and Engineering Fellow at Google, where he leads research and development in natural language understanding and machine learning.

His previous positions include chair of the Computer and Information Science department of the University of Pennsylvania, head of the Machine Learning and Information Retrieval department at AT&T Labs, and research and management positions at SRI International.

He received a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh in 1982, and has over 120 research publications on computational linguistics, machine learning, bioinformatics, speech recognition, and logic programming, as well as several patents.

He was elected AAAI Fellow in 1991 for contributions to computational linguistics and logic programming, ACM Fellow in 2010 for contributions to machine learning models of natural language and biological sequences, and ACL Fellow for contributions to sequence modeling, finite-state methods, and dependency and deductive parsing. He was president of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 1993.

“Protecting the Security of the AIDA platform and the Privacy of its Data” is the topic of the fourth session of the “AIDA Webinar Series”, an initiative promoted by the CMU Portugal project AIDA with CMU Portugal support. The Webinar will take place online on June 8 at 3pm (UTC +1) with José Flora, (University of Coimbra) and Cláudia Brito (INESC TEC and University of Minho) and Justine Sherry (Carnegie Mellon University) as moderator.

Summary Webinar #4: Software is not perfect, therefore it is expected that attacks may happen. AIDA is no exception, needing attention in this field, both for the security of the platform as for the privacy of the data subject whose data is being exposed and/or used. To achieve that, AIDA will be using state of the art security mechanisms, studied, and evaluated by the researchers of the project team, taking into account the new risks that rise from the migration to an Edge architecture and the employment of 5G.  This webinar has the main goal of presenting and explaining these issues within the AIDA platform, but also explain mechanisms of intrusion detection and tolerance used, as well as for monitoring and adaptation of the platform. Furthermore, it will also address how secure communications were achieved, never forgetting the privacy of the data subject and secure processing.

Registration to access the Zoom Webinar #4 is free but mandatory.

The “AIDA Webinar Series I Improving 5G Risk Management” will count with a total of five (5) Webinars held every two months from December 2021 to September 2022, gathering leading experts from academia to industry involved with the project.

For more information about this initiative and about the previous Webinars available at the AIDA Website.

The next and last Webinar of this Series will take place on September 30, 2022.