News
João Leitão invited speaker at National Information Data Management Forum
João Leitão, NOVA LINCS researcher from the Computer Systems Group and co-coordinator of the NOVA.ID-RDM-CC project, participated in the 12th National Information Data Management Forum, where he was invited to speak about the process of developing a data management and sharing policy for NOVA University Lisbon within the context of the project mentioned above. He […]
Read more
NOVA LINC’s PhD student receives the Professor José Luís Encarnação Award
Ana Rita Rebelo, NOVA LINC’s PhD student, receives the Professor José Luís Encarnação 2025 the largest Portuguese award in Computer Graphics. The annual “Professor José Luís Encarnação” prize aims to encourage higher education students to carry out research activities of excellence in the area of Computer Graphics and Applications. This award is therefore addressed to students of Portuguese […]
Read more
NOVA LINCS’s PhD student receives the FOCI Rising Star Research Award 2025
João Afonso Vilalonga, NOVA LINCS’s PhD student, received the Rising Star Research Award 2025 from the FOCI (Free and Open Communications on the Internet) community. This award is meant to recognize and encourage emerging talent in the field of internet freedom, to acknowledge and highlight the acknowledged scientific efforts of young and promising researchers who are contributing […]
Read moreNOVA LINCS researchers receive Best Paper Award at INFORUM 2025
Ion Chirica, NOVA LINCS’s PhD student, and the NOVA LINCS Software Systems researchers Mário Pereira and António Ravara, were awarded the best paper award at the 16th edition of Simpósio de Informática (INFORUM 2025), for their paper entitled “Ethereum Verified Machine: A Certified OCaml Implementation of the EVM”.
Read more
NOVA LINCS’s Team RedTWIZ Wins 2nd Place in Global Amazon Nova AI Challenge
The NOVA LINCS team RedTWIZ secured second place in the international Amazon Nova AI Challenge, a university competition that invited students and researchers from around the world to develop Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions for advanced language models. In January 2025, ten pre-selected universities began competing in the Amazon Nova AI Challenge, a new Amazon […]
Read more
NOVA LINCS team is among the finalists in the Amazon Nova AI Challenge: Trusted AI Track
The RedTWIZ team, supervised by David Semedo and João Magalhães NOVA LINCS researchers from Multimodal Systems Group and Professors at the Computer Science Department in NOVA School of Science and Technology, is among the finalists in the Amazon Nova AI Challenge: Trusted AI Track. The Amazon Nova AI Challenge is an annual university competition dedicated to accelerating […]
Read more
Kevin Gallagher’s opinion article on Internet security in Observador
Kevin Gallagher, a researcher from NOVA LINCS’s Computer Systems Group, discusses the largest security issue currently facing Internet users in an opinion article for the Observador newspaper. In the article he discussed how attackers have discovered a new method to exploit the Internet for malicious purposes: scamming users. In his view, we need to adopt […]
Read more
NOVA LINCS team selected for the Amazon Nova AI Challenge
David Semedo and João Magalhães, researchers at the NOVA LINCS Multimodal Systems group, had their research proposal selected for the 2025 Amazon Nova AI Challenge, a global university AI competition. Their proposal, which focuses on enhancing the trustworthiness of Large Language Models (LLMs), was one of the ten selected applications from a pool of 90 applicants worldwide. […]
Read more
“Cultural Heritage 360”: providing free online access to Portuguese Cultural Heritage
The “Cultural Heritage 360” project was presented at the National Museum of Archaeology last January 16th in a public session with the participation of the Secretary of State for Culture, the President of the Museums and Monuments of Portugal EPE and the President of the Cultural Heritage IP. The project includes the digitalization of 59,500 […]
Read moreNOVA LINCS projects submitted to the call for IC&DT projects in AI, Data Science and Cybersecurity approved for funding
The Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) has recently released the provisional results of Call for scientific research and technological development (IC&DT) projects in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Cybersecurity of relevance to Public Administration. We are very proud to announce that all the six projects submitted by NOVA LINCS researchers to this call were […]
Read more
Portugal Crypto Day 2024
The workshop Portugal Crypto Day took place on 13th December 2024 in Lisbon, at NOVA FCSH, as part of the CertiCoLab project, funded by EEA Grants Portugal. At the workshop, with more than 60 participants, some of the latest research taking place in the field of cryptography were showcased. The abstracts and presentations at the workshop […]
Read more
Alex Davidson publishes work at ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
Alex Davidson, NOVA LINCS researcher from the Computer Systems Group, presented the paper “Call Me By My Name: Simple, Practical Private Information Retrieval for Keyword Queries” at the 31st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2024), which took place in Salt Lake City (EUA), from October 14th to 18th, 2024. The paper, co-authored […]
Read more
“Cryptography should be used freely, responsibly, and with awareness”
Henrique Domingos, a researcher from NOVA LINCS’s Computer Systems Group, discusses the importance of the free use of cryptography in an interview with the magazine Visão. In his view, rather than attempting to regulate, prohibit, or restrict the free use of cryptography and end-to-end encryption, it is essential to recognize that these are key elements for […]
Read more
João Magalhães is the new co-director of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program
João Magalhães coordinator of the Multimodal Systems Group and Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, was appointed in October 2024, as the new National Co-director of the CMU Portugal Program by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT). João Magalhães now shares the leadership of the international partnership with Inês […]
Read more
NOVA LINCS at Bridge Talks
Nuno Correia, NOVA LINCS Director, showcased successful examples of collaborations between academia, the arts and cultural heritage with impact in the preservation and creative uses of heritage, at Bridge Talks “Fusion: Bridging Art, Science and Technology” that took place at NOVA FCT on October 15. The work presented includes a virtual tour of Museu Nacional do […]
Read more
PhD Workshop’24
The PhD Workshop’24 of the Doctoral Program in Computer Science from NOVA FCT took place on October 2nd. In this workshop the PhD students had the opportunity to share their research with all NOVA FCT community, and in particular with professors and younger students from the Master Program in Computer Science and Engineering.
Read more
Multimodal Systems collaborates with the Portuguese Navy in Multimodal Dialog AI Systems
NOVA researchers participated in the REPMUS exercise organized by the Portuguese Navy with the participation of NATO. The NOVA LINCS Multimodal Systems team created an AI assistant for the Navy to process complex tasks and critical information. The system was demonstrated to the Portuguese President of the Republic Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Admiral Gouveia […]
Read more
The science behind Amazon Alexa TaskBot TWIZ: 4 publications at top NLP conferences
The AlexaTaskBot TWIZ team is having lots of fun publishing the research results of our journey: 4 papers at ACL2024, EMNLP2024 and EACL2024 conferences so far. The first article describes our research towards PlanLLM@EACL2024, a model that can ground its behavior on a step-by-step plan of instructions. It was the first of such models that […]
Read more
NOVA LINCS Receives Google Gift to research Drone Video AI Agent for Natural Disasters and Climate Change
Prof. João Magalhães, coordinator of the Multimodal Systems Group, received a Google Gift to research Vision and Language AI models to analyze videos obtained by Drones in scenarios of natural disasters and climate change. Drone-mounted cameras opened a multitude of applications across a wide range of fields. They enable analysis over vast territories, facilitating comprehensive […]
Read more
Multimodal Systems and Google Researchers present a novel Generative AI algorithm at ACL2024
Researchers of the Multimodal Systems group and Google proposed a new Generative AI algorithm to synthesize coherent sequences of images representing manual tasks, such as DYI, cooking. The key goal is to make Generative-AI capable of handling inputs that sequences of instructions. This is a step change in relation to the state of the art […]
Read more