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CMU Portugal takes master students from Portugal to Pittsburgh to develop research work in ICT

A group of 9 master students from Portuguese Institutions was selected to visit Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh during 2020 to develop their research work in the field of Information and Communication technologies (ICT) supported by the CMU Portugal Program and Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT). The students will be granted a scholarship funded under the CMU Portugal Mobility Program Visiting Students Program 2020 Call that closed in January 12th 2020. The scholarships will allow Master students affiliated with a Portuguese higher education institution to spent up to 6 months to work in research in ICT at CMU, be mentored by leading faculty and researchers, and have the opportunity to be immersed in Carnegie Mellon’s culture.

Since 2014, 39 students had the opportunity to visit CMU under the scope of CMU Portugal mobility programs. The Program has offered master students the possibility of developing their knowledge and skills as researchers, while opening perspectives for career opportunities in cutting-edge fields of Information and Communication Technologies.

This year’s edition will be attended by researchers from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL), Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT-UNL) and Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade de Lisboa (FA-UL), who will collaborate with five departments/institutes at CMU including Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Computer Science Department, Electrical and Computer Engineering DepartmentInstitute for Software Research and Machine Learning Department.

2020 Participants Profile:

Álvaro Santos: Department of Informatics at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL)
Department and Host at Carnegie Mellon University: Institute for Software Research, Professor Jonathan Aldrich.
Research Area: Programming Languages, Distributed Systems

Diogo Pereira: Instituto de Telecomunicações/ Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT-UNL)
Department and Host at Carnegie Mellon University: Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Professor Hyong S. Kim
Research Area: Computer Networks

Guilherme Espada: Department of Informatics at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL)
Department and Host at Carnegie Mellon University: Computer Science Department, Professor Jan Hoffmann
Research Area: Programming Languages, Software Engineering

Hugo Simão: LASIGE/  Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade de Lisboa
Department and Host at Carnegie Mellon University: Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Professor Jodie Forlizzi
Research Area: Human-Robot Interaction

João Almeida: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering/ Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)
Department and Host at Carnegie Mellon University: Machine Learning Department, Professor Katerina Fragkiadaki
Research Area: Robotics, Computer Vision and Machine Learning

Margarida Ferreira: INESC-ID/ Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)
Department and Host at Carnegie Mellon University: Computer Science Department, Professor Rúben Martins
Research Area: Program Synthesis

Miguel Pinho: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering/ Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)
Department and Host at Carnegie Mellon University: Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Professor James C. Hoe
Research Area: Computer Architecture

Paulo Santos: Department of Informatics at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL)
Department and Host at Carnegie Mellon University: Institute for Software Research, Professor Christopher Timperley
Research Area: Programming Languages, Genetic Programming, Program Synthesis

Ricardo Brancas: INESC-ID/ Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)
Department and Host at Carnegie Mellon University: Computer Science Department, Professor Rúben Martins
Research Area: Program Synthesis