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CMU Portugal will be hosting 18 research visitors to Carnegie Mellon in 2024

In 2024, CMU Portugal will host 18 research visitors from Portuguese Institutions at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) field: 8 faculty & researchers and 10 master’s students & recent master’s graduates. The CMU Portugal’s Mobility initiatives “Visiting Students” and “Visiting Faculty & Researchers are supported by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT). 

The 8 selected candidates under the Visiting Faculty & Researchers Program will have the opportunity to spend up to 2 months engaging in ICT research, education, and innovation. They will collaborate with peers at Carnegie Mellon University,  gaining valuable insights into the university’s culture and best practices.  This  group of eight new scholars represent six different Portuguese Academic Institutions: (1) Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics (CLSBE), NOVA School of Science and Technology (FCT NOVA), (1) Faculty of Sciences –  Universidade de Lisboa  (FCUL), (3) Instituto Superior Técnico (Técnico), (1) Universidade do Minho (UMinho), and (1) Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave (IPCA).

They will be hosted in six CMU Departments including the Heinz College, Mathematical Sciences, Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Robotics Institute, the Computer Science Department and the HCI Institute. This program has already benefited 89 faculty members from Portuguese research centers, a total of 97, including the 2024 visitors.                                                                                   

The CMU Portugal Visiting Students Program will support 10 visits to CMU in 2024. The students  will have the opportunity to spend up to three months working in research in ICT at CMU, mentored by leading faculty and researchers, fully immersing themselves in Carnegie Mellon’s culture. These selected candidates represent four different Portuguese Institutions: (2) Faculty of Engineering – University of Porto (FEUP), (5) Instituto Superior Técnico (Técnico), (2) NOVA School of Science and Technology (FCT NOVA) and (1) Universidade de Coimbra (UC).

They will be hosted in seven  CMU Departments including the Computer Science Department, the Language Technologies Institute, the Robotics Institute, the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering,  and Electrical & Computer Engineering. This initiative has already benefited 59 students from Portuguese Universities, a total of 69, including the 2024 visitors.  

2024 Visiting Faculty & Researchers:

  • Alcides Fonseca, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, hosted at the Robotics Institute and the National Robotics Engineering Center by Christopher S. Timperley.
    Research Topic: Applying software verification techniques to prevent misconfigurations in ROS.            
                                                                
  • Alessandro Gianola, Assistant Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, hosted at the Computer Science Department by Ruben Martins.
    Research Topic: Establish standardized and optimized SAT-based methods for the automatic analysis of DAPs.
  • Ana Isabel Neto, Assistant Researcher at INESC-ID, hosted at the Robotics Institute by Reid Simmons.
    Research Topic: Human-robot interaction, robots acting as social mediators
  • Anna Bernard, Assistant Researcher at Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, hosted at the Heinz College by Michael D. Smith.
    Research Topic: Intersection of cultural and digital economics; policy piracy, intellectual property, and technological disruption
  • Fabio Chalub, Associate Professor at Nova School of Science and Technology, hosted at Department of Mathematical Sciences by Robert Pego.
    Research Topic: Using modern techniques in kinetic models to define spatial models in epidemiology
  • João Ferreira, Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, hosted at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department by Limin Jia.
    Research Topic: Language-based security, and automated program repair.
  • José Pereira, Associate Professor at University of Minho, hosted at the Computer Science Department by Andy Pavlo.
    Research Topic: Database systems, collaboration network, dependable distributed systems
  • Nuno Rodrigues, Associate Professor at Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, hosted at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute by John Stamper.
    Research Topic: Large Language Model (LLM) in the Osler project with medical algorithms

2024 Visiting Students:

  • Carlos Carvalho, Master alum at Instituto Superior Técnico, hosted by the Language Technologies Institute by Shinji Watanabe.
    Research Topic/field: Automatic speech recognition (ASR)
  • Diogo Araújo, Master student at Instituto Superior Técnico, hosted at the Robotics Institute by Fernando De La Torre.
    Research Topic: Vision transformers (ViTs) and multiple instance learning (MIL) to identify the patches of interest in dermoscopic images.
  • Frederico Vicente, Master alum at Nova School of Science and Technology, hosted at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department  by Soummya Kar.
    Research Topic: Federated Learning frameworks, develop new neural mechanisms.

  • Gabriel Santos,  Master student at University of Coimbra, hosted at the Mechanical Engineering Department by Carmel Majidi.
    Research Topic: Fabricate micro-electrode arrays to be embedded in the soft neural probe

  • Gonçalo Frazão, Master student at Instituto Superior Técnico, hosted at the Robotics Institute by Fernando De La Torre.
    Research Topic: Pioneering system capable of hybrid multiple object location and tracking in large spaces; robotics, artificial intelligence, and computer vision
  • Gonçalo Mesquita, Master student at Instituto Superior Técnico, hosted at the Robotics Institute by Artur W. Dubrawski.
    Research Topic: Computer vision in biomedical imaging
  • João Mesquita, Master student at the Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, hosted at the Biomedical Engineering Department by Steven M. Chase.
    Research Topic: Neuromorphic computing, to analyze neuronal activity in real-time

  • Martim Afonso, Master alum at Instituto Superior Técnico, hosted at the Computer Science Department by Ruben Martins.
    Research Topic: Using LLMs to identify faulty lines in software

  • Sahil Kumar, Master student at NOVA School of Science and Technology, hosted at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute by Hong Shen.
    Research Topic: Developing a causal explanation method tailored for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in healthcare applications
  • Tiago Santos, Master alum at Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, hosted at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department by James C. Hoe.
    Research Topic: Heterogeneous Computing using CPU-FPGA systems

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