Publication date: 19 de January, 2017

10 Doctoral degrees by DI/NOVA LINCS in 2016

The number of PhDs in Computer Science granted under the supervision of faculties from our Department has increased significantly, especially after the beginning of NOVA LINCS strategic project, in 2015, with an annual average of 10 PhDs graduations.

Among the theses defended in 2016, nine have been developed in the context of the Doctoral Program in Computer Science and one within the Doctoral Program in Digital Media.

The success of our doctoral education is grounded in a strong commitment to innovation, research, and technical leadership in Computer Science and Informatics, in coordination with the research activities of the Department’s research center NOVA Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics (NOVA LINCS).

Furthermore, since 2015, we organize an annual workshop of the Doctoral Program in Computer Science, to share and discuss the ongoing research work of students from the Doctoral Program with the FCT NOVA community.

The Second Workshop of the Doctoral Program in Computer Science took place on December 16 with a keynote talk by Zach Mainen, principal investigator at the Champalimaud Foundation “Center for the Unknown”, and talks by PhD students and recent PhD program alumni.

PhD theses in 2016

André Sabino | Potential Indirect Relationships in Productive Networks

Supervised by Armanda Rodrigues

Bernardo Ferreira | Privacy-Preserving Efficient Searchable Encryption

Supervised by Henrique João Domingos

Bruno Cardoso | Two Steps Towards Kairos-Awareness

Supervised by Teresa Romão

Bruno Silva | Exploratory Cluster Analysis from Ubiquitous Data Streams using Self-Organizing Maps

Supervised by Nuno Marques

Fausto Mourato | Enhancing Automatic Level Generation for Platfom Videogames

Supervised by Fernando Birra

João Moura | Modular Logic Programming: Full Compositionality and Conflict Handling for Practical Reasoning

Supervised by Carlos Damásio

João Soares | Scalling In-Memory databases on multicores

Supervised by Nuno Preguiça

Luís Assunção | A Model for Scientific Workflows with Parallel and Distributed Computing

Supervised by José Cunha

Luísa Lourenço | A Type System for Value-Dependent Information Flow Analysis

Supervised by Luís Caires

Marta Conceição | A Biosymtic Approach to Human Development and Evolution | Doctoral Program in Digital Media

Supervised by António Câmara