CMU Portugal Program Symposium 2017 – Photo Gallery
The CMU Portugal Program hosted one of its biggest events yet, the CMU Portugal Symposium 2017. With the presence of the External Review Committee (ERC) members, some of the most illustrious names in Portuguese and American academia and over than 200 participants, it was a great day of networking and sharing of knowledge.
You will find the videos of the event here.
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Opening Session
João Claro, National Director, Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program
James Garrett, Dean, College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Paulo Ferrão, President, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Sebastião Feyo de Azevedo, Rector, University of Porto
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Panel I – Building knowledge and talent
MODERATOR
João Falcão e Cunha, Dean, FEUP
PARTICIPANTS
Manuela Veloso, Head of the Machine Learning Depart, Carnegie Mellon University
Susana Brandão, SISCOG, ECE Ph.D. Alumna
Leid Zejlinovic, Nova School of Business and Economics, TCE Ph.D. Alumnus
Pedro Guedes de Oliveira, INESC TEC, FEUP, Global Coordinator of the Portugal INCoDe.2030 Initiative
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Panel II – Building technologies and ventures
MODERATOR
Jelena Kovacevic, Head of the ECE Department, Carnegie Mellon University
PARTICIPANTS
Paulo Marques, CTO, Feedzai, FEP
Frederico Carpinteiro, CEO, Adapttech, inRes team
Pedro Oliveira, Católica-Lisbon, TEIPL ERI PI
João Paulo Cunha, FEUP, INESC TEC, VR2Market ERI PI
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Lunch and posters and demos session
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Panel III – Sensing and Networks
MODERATORS
Luigia Aiello, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
Tariq Durrani, University of Strathclyde
SHOWCASED PROJECTS
Hyrax
VR2Market
Stretchtronics
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Panel IV – Humans and Machines
MODERATORS
Luigia Aiello, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
Helmer Strik, Centre for Language and Speech Technology, Radboud University
SHOWCASED PROJECTS
AHA
Inside
BioVisualSpeech
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Panel V – Our Data Dominated World
MODERATORS
Scott Acton, Virginia Image and Video Analysis Laboratory, University of Virginia
Helmer Strik, Centre for Language and Speech Technology, Radboud University
SHOWCASED PROJECTS
GoLocal
Screen-DR
S2MovingCity
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Panel VI – Management and Policy
MODERATORS
Douglas Sicker, Head of the EPP Department, Carnegie Mellon University
Björn Asheim, Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy, Lund University
SHOWCASED PROJECTS
TEIPL
E4Value
+Atlantic
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Closing session
André Jacques, Chief Marketing Officer, Porto Business School
José Fonseca de Moura, Director at CMU, Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program
James Garrett, Dean, College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Sir John O’Reilly, University College London & Chairman, SERC, A*STAR, Singapore