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12th Lisbon Machine Learning School, with CMU Portugal support

The 2022 Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School (LxMLS 2022) will take place between July 24th and July 29th at the Congress Center of Instituto Superior Técnico. For the second year, CMU Portugal proudly associates with this yearly reference event.

The school covers a range of machine learning topics, from theory to practice, that are important in solving natural language processing (NLP) problems arising in different application areas. It is organized jointly by Instituto Superior Técnico (Técnico), Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa (INESC-ID), the Lisbon ELLIS Unit for Learning and Intelligent Systems (LUMLIS), and Unbabel, with the support of the CMU Portugal Program.

This year’s edition returns as an in-person 6-day event after two years online due to Covid restrictions.

The deadline for applications is May 15th, 2022, and the application form is available online.

More about the School Schedule and Instructors available on the LxMLS 2022 website.

Other useful information:

Important Dates
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* Application Deadline: May 15, 2022
* Decision: June 1, 2022
* Summer School: July 24 – 29, 2022

Topics and Intended Audience
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The school will cover a range of Machine Learning (ML) topics, from theory to practice, that are important in solving Natural Language Processing (NLP) problems that arise in the analysis and use of Web data.

The target audience is:
* Researchers and graduate students in the fields of NLP and Computational Linguistics;
* Computer scientists who have interests in statistics and machine learning;
* Industry practitioners who desire a more in depth understanding of these subjects.

Features of LxMLS
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* No deep previous knowledge of ML or NLP is required, but the attendants are assumed to have some basic background on mathematics and programming;
* Days are divided into morning lectures and afternoon lab sessions and practical talks;
* The guide for the labs will be provided one month in advance. You can check here the guide used in previous editions.
* A day zero is scheduled to review basic concepts and introduce the necessary tools for implementation exercises
* Lecturers are leading researchers in machine learning and natural language processing

Any other questions should be directed to: lxmls-2022@lx.it.pt.

Manuel Heitor keynote address at the CMU Commencement Ceremony

On May 13th, Manuel Heitor will receive a Doctor of Science and Technology honorary degree and deliver the keynote address at Carnegie Mellon’s Commencement ceremony for master’s and doctoral degree graduates. The former Portuguese Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education, is one of the 2022 Carnegie Mellon Honorary Degree Recipients, one of the highest distinctions presented to an individual by CMU, awarded to individuals who are a source of inspiration to Tartans and their families gathered at graduation between May 13-15.

You are welcome to watch the Commencement ceremony in live streaming from 3:00 – 4:30 pm (Pittsburgh time) /  8:00 – 9:30 pm (Portugal time).

The link will soon be available at the Commencement ceremony page.

On the same day, the CMU Portugal Program will host a Workshop that precedes the Commencement Ceremony for invited participants. At this event, CMU Portugal researchers and Ph.D. students will address their ongoing research work in collaboration between Portugal and CMU.

More about this distinction in our News article.
More about the Commencement Schedule here.

José Fonseca de Moura Doctor Honoris Causa Ceremony

The CMU Portugal Director at CMU will be awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by Universidade de Lisboa

Professor José Manuel Fonseca de Moura who leads the CMU Portugal Program since its beginning in 2006, will be awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by Universidade de Lisboa, in recognition of his academic, scientific and professional outstanding contributions, worldwide and with a strong impact in Portugal and IST, in signal processing and data science.

In addition to his role as CMU Portugal Director, Professor José Manuel Fonseca de Moura is the Philip L. and Marsha Dowd University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He was full professor at Técnico in the 1980s and president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. IEEE has about 422,000 members in more than 160 countries.

The Doctor Honoris Causa ceremony will take place at Instituto Superior Técnico, on 13th September 2021, at 2:30 p.m and will be held in Portuguese.

Live streaming at: https://ist.pt/nYpVN

CMU Portugal will be part of two FLAD Sessions in Porto and Minho to promote training initiatives in the USA

The Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) will host two sessions – February 18th in Porto and 19th at Universidade do Minho – for all those interested in undertaking a period of academic training at a University or Research Center in the United States.

For these sessions, FLAD invited representatives from different Programs that promote initiatives addressed to Portuguese who want to go to the USA, including the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program that will be represented in Porto and Minho by the Program’s Executive director, Sílvia Castro, and in Porto also by the Program’s Education officer, João Fumega. All questions related to funding available, application process or the stay in the United States, will be clarified by those entities and through testimonies shared by previous participants.

In Porto the session will take place at i3S on February 18th between 15h00-17h00, at Auditorium Mariano Gago.
Registrations at: https://forms.gle/tjSG1wmhhu84cnt78 by  14/02.

At  Universidade do Minho the session will take place on February 19th between  14h30-16h30, at Auditorium B1, Building 2.
Registrations at: https://forms.gle/2diuYBHaqeYBkizp9, by 14/02.

Photo Exhibition “Olha e Vê. Sente e Vive” and “Outros Retratos e Auto-retratos” now at FEUP

After Lisbon, “Look and See. Sense and Live” and “Other Portraits and Self-portraits” Exhibit will now take place at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP) until December 13th with an Opening Ceremony on November 14 at FEUP Library.

This photo and video exhibition was developed under the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program project SCREEN DR, led by Professor Aurélio Campilho from INESC TEC’s  C-BER Center  in collaboration with the photographer Renato Roque. The exhibit was already showcased in Lisbon at FCT and at the Ciência 2019 event.

The main objective of the project was to develop a computational platform for screening diabetic retinopathy.

The exhibit contains synthesized images, portraits of the retinas of INESC TEC researchers and self-portraits of the photographer Renato Roque.
For more information please read the booklet of the exhibit.

Entrance is free.

CMU Portugal at the International Day (IDay2019) from Instituto Superior Técnico

The CMU Portugal Program will be part of the  2019 International Day (IDay2019),  an event promoted by Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) to foster interaction between its students and several Higher Education Institutions , from many different countries.

The Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program will attend the event with an information stand to disclose its Education Inititiaves namely its Dual Degree PhD Programs with Carnegie Mellon that will soon be launched for the 2020/2021 academic year and the Call for our Visiting Students Program that we plan to launch by the end of 2019.

Taguspark campus will host the “World Café Exhibition” on 9th October, from 12:30 to 14:30.

Alameda campus will host the IDAY International Partner Exhibition 2019 on 10th October, from 10:00 to 17:00. There will be about 40 booths with national and international institutions. TUIST will perform at the end of the IDAY International Partner Exhibition.

This event will be a great opportunity to foster student’s international experience, intercultural skills and give them a look into innovative environments. This exposure will be helpful to broaden the horizons and intensify international student mobility perspectives in the near future.

This event is free. More at: https: //iday.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/

 

Reboot Festival will count with the presence of CMU Faculty Larry Shea

Carnegie Mellon University Professor at the Center for the Arts in Society Larry Shea (https://www.cmu.edu/cas/people/shea_larry.html) will be a CMU Portugal guest speaker at this year’s edition of Reboot . Reboot is a Digital Arts and New Media festival that invites to speculation, to criticism, to a fresh scientific production, and to formal, transdisciplinary artistic interventions. Larry Shea, who worked at the intersection of Art and media technology in New York and has recently been appointed to create a top-notch Video & Media Design Option curriculum for CMU’s School of Drama.

The goal of the festival is to “restart” all participants through an exhibition, a symposium, keynotes, and many other activities.

Reboot is organized by in collaboration with Digital Media doctoral program, NOVA FCT, NOVA FCSH, NOVA FCSH, Universidade do Porto U. Porto, iNOVA Media Lab and NOVALincs with the CMU Portugal Program support

More about the festival at: https://www.rebootfest.pt/about1