Awards
2024
Best Poster Award
European Molecular Imaging Meeting 2024
Sara Monteiro
Best Poster Award
International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
Tiago Fernandes
Master Thesis Video Award
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (DEEC)
David Gomes
2023
Pedro Oliveira Innovation Award (Honorable Mention)
The Best & The Biggest of Technological Portugal Exame Informática
Rodrigo Ventura, FRIENDS project
Finalist Innovation Award
Altice International
Francisco Calisto
2% Most Cited Scientists
Stanford University and Elsevier
António Pascoal, João Gomes, José Santos-Victor, Jorge Salvador Marques,
Best Student Paper
IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics
Alexandre Bernardino (Tutor)
European Innovation Academy (EIA) Award
EIA 2023 Porto
Francisco Maria Calisto
2nd Place RoboCup@Home
RoboCup 2023
SocRob Team
Elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Lisbon Academy of Sciences
Isabel Ribeiro
2022
International Society for Virtual Rehabilitation
ISVR Early Career Award
Athanasious Vourvopoulus
Prémio Científico ULisboa
Caixa Geral de Depósitos
Pedro Batista
2º lugar
Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge 2022
Bárbara Tavares
2% Most Cited Scientists
Stanford University and Elsevier
José Santos-Victor, Jorge Salvador Marques
Sustainable Health Award
Casa da Saúde Idanha (Irmãs Hospitaleiras)
AHA Project
Fullbright Portugal Scholarship
Tiago Fernandes
2021
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo Award
Young Alumna 2021
Hemaxi Narotamo
Prize Ex-aequo BIGMATH Project
European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI) Student Competition 2021
Stevo Racković
Best Master Thesis
Department of Electrotechnical Engineering
Marcelo Jacinto
Best PhD Thesis
Portuguese Robotics Society
Pedro Vicente
2020
Honourable Mention Award
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops
Catarina Barata. Carlos Santiago
“How Important Is Each Dermoscopy Image?”
Best PhD Thesis
Portuguese Society of Robotics
Pedro Lourenço
“Globally Convergent Simultaneous Localization and Mapping: Design Techniques, Analysis, and Implementation”
Best MSc Thesis
Portuguese Society of Robotics
Pedro Trindade
Best Outstanding MSc Thesis Award,
Portuguese Section IEEE
Pedro Trindade
“Distributed Formation Control of Double-Integrator Vehicles in the Presence of Unknown Constant Disturbances”
Distinguished Lifetime Technical Achievement Award
IEEE OES AUV
António Pascoal
Best Paper Award
IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics
Rodrigo Ventura
“Teaching robots to perceive time: A twofold learning approach”
Best Research Work
Aeronautical Engineering by the Portuguese Civil Aviation Authority (ANAC)
Rodrigo Ventura
“Real-Time Trajectory Planning for UAVs in Environments with Moving Obstacles,”
Highly Commended Paper Award
IEEE ICARSC 2020
Alexandre Bernardino
“2D visual servoing meets rapidly-exploring random trees for collision avoidance”
Investigator Award
6th Congress of European Academy of Neurology, Virtual Congress
João Leote
“Accelerometer speech recording: technical aspects, reliability, clinical and intraoperative utility”
2019
Premi di Laurea GNB
Instituto di Biorobotica
Laura Santos
For the Master Thesis “CopiRobot: Interactive Mirroring Robotics Game for ASD Children”
Best Msc Dissertation Video
Portuguese Society of Robotics
João Cartucho
For the Master Thesis “Robust Object Recognition Through Symbiotic Deep Learning in Mobile Robots ”
Best PhD Thesis
Associação Portuguesa de Reconhecimento de Padrões (APRP)
Catarina Barata
Best Poster Award
ISMRM Accessible MRI Workshop
Rita Nunes
“An assessment of noise distribution at ultra low magnetic field strength”
MR Accessibility Challenge Award
ISMRM Accessible MRI Workshop
Rita Nunes, Tiago Timóteo Fernandes
Best MSc Thesis in Bioengineering
ISMRM Accessible MRI Workshop
Rita Nunes, Ana Rita Oliveira
“Identification of brain connectivity disruptions due to thalamic lesions in early development using Diffusion-Weighted MRI”
2018
Luís Vidigal Prize
João Domingos
For the Master Thesis “A Step Towards Distributed Control of Massive-scale Networks”
Best Student Paper Award
International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS 2018)
Pu Bai
“Wall-contact sliding control strategy for a 2D caged quadrotor”
Best Paper Award
ICARSC 2018
Nino Cauli, Pedro Vicente, Bruno Damas, José Santos-Victor
“iCub, clean the table! A robot learning from demonstration approach using Deep Neural Networks”
Best M.Sc Thesis
Portuguese Robotics Society
Paul Schydlo
“Anticipation in Human-Robot Cooperation: A recurrent neural network approach for multiple action sequences prediction”
2017
Best PhD Thesis in Robotics
Janssen Neuroscience RWE Award 2017 – 2º Prémio na Categoria “Séries Clínicas”
Rita Gouveia Nunes
“Neuromelanin Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Substantia Nigra in First Episode Psychosis Patients with Psychotropic Drugs Consumption”
Best Paper Award
International Symposium on Intelligent and Distributed Computing
Agostinho Rosa, Carlos Fernandes
“Spatially Structured Evolutionay Algorithms: Graph Degree, Population Size and Convergence
Best-in-class Task Benchmark TBM1: Getting to know my home
European Robotics League
SocRob@Home team
Best 2017 PhD Thesis Award
Portuguese Association for Automatic Control Ex aequo
Pedro Casau
“Hybrid Feedback Control with Application to Autonomous Air Vehicles”
Best 2017 PhD Thesis Award
Portuguese Association for Automatic Control Ex aequo
Daniel Silvestre
“Synergistic Hybrid Feedback Control with Application to Autonomous Air Vehicles”
2013/2014
IBM 2012 Scientific Prize
Pinar-Oguz, Ekim
For the Phd Thesis “Algoritmos Robustos de Localização em Redes de Sensores com Aplicações a Seguimento de Alvos”
Best Paper Award
IEEE Robotics and Biommimetics Conference, ROBIO, China 2013
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For the paper “Precision Grasp Synergies for Dexterous Robotic Hands”
Special Honour
II SPNR & SENR Joint Meeting
Joana Pinto, Inês Sousa, Pedro Vilela, Patrícia Figueiredo
“Reproducibility of vasoreactivity measurements using breath-hold in combination with BOLD fMRI”
2nd best Paper
Portuguese League Against Epilepsy
Teresa Murta, Patrícia Figueiredo
“Dynamic Causal Modelling of epileptic seizure propagation pathways: a combined EEG-fMRI study”
Best PhD Thesis in Robotics
Portuguese Society of Robotics
Bruno Damas
For the PhD Thesis “Learning and Sensorimotor Coordination of Anthropomorphic Robotic Systems”
2012
IBM 2014 Scientific Prize
Ricardo Cabral
For the Phd Thesis “Unifying Low-rank Models for Visual Learning”
Best Application Paper Award
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
Meysam Basiri, Pedro Lima
“Robust Acoustic Source Localization of Emergency Signals from Micro Air Vehicles”
Best Student Paper Award
CONTROLO’12 – 10th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control
Mohammadreza Bayat and Pedro Aguiar
“Observability Analysis of the Simultaneous Underwater Vehicle Localization and Mapping Based on Ranging Measurements”
2010/2011
IBM 2014 Scientific Prize
Ricardo Cabral
For the Phd Thesis “Unifying Low-rank Models for Visual Learning”
IBM 2014 Scientific Prize
Ricardo Cabral
For the Phd Thesis “Unifying Low-rank Models for Visual Learning”