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  • 10 Doctoral degrees by DI/NOVA LINCS in 2016
  • Jan 2017

  • 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