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

Pinar-Oguz, Ekim</p

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