Improving machine learning and applications in healthcare

The panel “Improving machine learning and applications in healthcare,” was led by Jodi Forlizzi, Professor in Computer Science and HCII at CMU and João Paulo Cunha, one of our Scientific Directors and Professor at Universidade do Porto (FEUP). Three of our Large Scale projects focused on health topics were under discussion: “TAMI: Transparent Artificial Medical Intelligence” presented by Asim Smailagic (CMU); Nuno André da Silva (Hospital da Luz Learning Health) to introduce “IntelligentCare: Intelligent Multimorbidity Management System”; and Margarida Nery (Glintt) with  “WoW: Wireless biOmonitoring stickers and smart bed architecture: toWards Untethered Patients”.

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The CMU Portugal Program Summit 2022 “New Frontiers in tech” gathered, on November 9 and 10, 177 members of its community for two days of discussion on cutting-edge topics in ICT, related to the scope of the Program. The Conference brought together sixteen Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) faculty members, including the Dean of the College of Engineering at CMU, Bill Sanders, and the University’s Provost and Chief Academic Officer, James H. Garrett. The President of Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), Madalena Alves, was at the Opening Ceremony to express the Institution’s long-lasting support to the CMU Portugal international partnership that counts with more than 16 years of activity in Research, Education and Innovation in the field of Information and Communication technologies.

Also at the welcome Session, the Program’s National Co-Director Inês Lynce introduced the Program joined by Sir John O’Reilly, Chair of CMU Portugal External Review Committee and the CMU Provost James H. Garrett who shared an overview of the importance of the Partnership to Carnegie Mellon University.

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The discussion held at Factory Lisbon in Hub Criativo do Beato in Lisbon, counted on faculty, researchers and students from Portuguese universities, Carnegie Mellon University, and companies involved with the Program. Among Portuguese ICT companies were Feedzai, a Portuguese Unicorn company and the first start-up created under the scope of the Program, OutSystems and Unbabel, all CMU Portugal Affiliated Companies and Large-Scale collaborative project promoters. Also to present their CMU Portugal projects were part of the event dstsolar, Glintt, Mobileum, Hospital da Luz Learning Health, Ingeniarius among others, and other potential partner companies like Wow Systems and Neurospace.

As keynote speakers were part of the event: Inês Oom de Sousa, President at Fundação Santander Portugal; Vasco Pedro, Co-Founder and CEO at Unbabel; Gil Azevedo, Executive Director at Startup Lisboa; Nicolas Christin, Professor in Engineering and Public Policy, Software and Societal Systems at CMU; and the only speaker joining remotely from Sweden, Michela Magas, Chair at the Industry Commons Foundation and innovation advisor to the European Commission and the G7 leaders.

The Conference also counted with a high participation of CMU Portugal students, with 54 posters submitted, giving them the opportunity to present their research work at the Poster Sessions held throughout the Summit. At the Roundtable “Talent Development”, five students and alumni also shared enthusiastically with the audience their Ph.D. experience under the Dual Degree Ph.D. and Affiliated Ph.D. Initiatives.

This two-day meeting was a great platform to gather expertise from Industry and Academia from both sides of the Atlantic, opening a pathway for collaborations between the two countries and explore the many opportunities offered within the scope of the international partnership for research collaborations and training programs in ICT at top Portuguese Universities, companies, and across CMU departments.

 

Over 170 people gathered to discuss research progress in ICT under the CMU Portugal Program

The CMU Portugal Program Summit 2022 “New Frontiers in tech” gathered, on November 9 and 10, 179 members of its community for two days of discussion on cutting-edge topics in ICT. The Factory Lisbon was the gathering place for the community of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Portugal.

The CMU committee counted sixteen faculty members, including the Dean of the College of Engineering at CMU, Bill Sanders, and the University’s Provost and Chief Academic Officer, James H. Garrett. They were joined in Lisbon by many CMU Portugal students, faculty & researchers from Portuguese partner research Institutions, and representatives from Portuguese partner Companies, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, and the Embassy of the United States of America in Portugal.

The Program’s National Co-Director, Inês Lynce, opened the Welcome Session, highlighting the Program’s achievements over the past 16 years. Afterward, Sir John O’Reilly, who has Chaired the CMU Portugal External Review Committee (ERC) since its beginning, shared his view on the evolution of CMU Portugal to this point, and CMU Provost James H. Garrett emphasized the importance of the Partnership to Carnegie Mellon University’s global reach. The President of Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), Madalena Alves, closed this session by expressing the Institution’s long-lasting support to the CMU Portugal international partnership that counts on more than 16 years of activity in Research, Education, and Innovation in the field of Information and Communication Technologies.

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The CMU Portugal Program Summit 2022 also served as a platform to present to the CMU Portugal External Review Committee the work and the outcomes that have been made by the Program in the last year, giving them a broad perspective of the research and education initiatives being developed under the scope of the Program. Throughout the two days, the ERC had the opportunity to evaluate the Program’s activities and assess its overall performance at internal meetings. ERC Chair Sir John O’Reilly, Giulio Sandini, Senior Researcher and Founding Director of the Italian Institute of Technology, and Fernando Pereira, VP and Engineering Fellow at Google, attended the Conference onsight, leading the discussion in several panels as moderators. Joining remotely were Yvonne Rogers, Professor and Director at the Centre of Excellence in Human-Computer Interaction of the University College London, and Ali Sayed, Dean of Engineering EPFL School of Engineering.

Among Portuguese ICT companies were Feedzai, a Portuguese Unicorn company and the first start-up created under the scope of the Program, OutSystems, Farfetch and Unbabel, all CMU Portugal Affiliated Companies and Large-Scale collaborative project promoters. Also, to present their CMU Portugal projects were part of the event dstsolar, Glintt, Mobileum, Hospital da Luz Learning Health, Ingeniarius among others, and other potential partner companies like Wow Systems and Neurospace.

As keynote speakers were part of the event: Inês Oom de Sousa, President at Fundação Santander Portugal; Vasco Pedro, Co-Founder and CEO at Unbabel; Gil Azevedo, Executive Director at Startup Lisboa; Nicolas Christin, Professor in Engineering and Public Policy, Software and Societal Systems at CMU; and the only speaker joining remotely from Sweden, Michela Magas, Chair at the Industry Commons Foundation and innovation advisor to the European Commission and the G7 leaders.

This two-day meeting was a great platform to gather expertise from Industry and Academia from both sides of the Atlantic, opening a pathway for network collaborations between the two countries and exploring the many opportunities offered within the scope of the international partnership.

After CMU Portugal Summit 2022 Closing Ceremony, the CMU Portugal Program Directors, along with the Dean of the College of Engineering at CMU, Bill Sanders, CMU Provost, and Chief Academic Officer, James H. Garrett, the Program’s Board of Directors, and the External Review Committee members, met with the Portuguese Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Elvira Fortunato to share an overview of the Program and its achievements, sharing a perspective of what can be improved in the future. The meeting was followed by a high-level dinner which allowed a further assessment of the outcomes of the international partnership, which is expected to be renewed at the end of 2023.

With an end to the 2022 Summit, the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program hosted on the next day, November 11th, its annual Board of Directors (BoD) Meeting, which is part of CMU Portugal’s governing structure and is responsible for policy oversight and discussion of the CMU Portugal Program plan of activities. The Meeting was chaired by  Madalena Alves, President, at  Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia and counted with the presence of  James H. Garrett, Provost, at Carnegie Mellon University, William H. Sanders, Dean at Carnegie Mellon University, College of Engineering, Rogério Carapuça, President of the Portuguese Association for Development of Communications (APDC), Representative of Industry and was joined remotely by Paulo Jorge Ferreira, Rector, Universidade de Aveiro, Representative of the Council of Portuguese Rectors. The Board Meeting also counted the participation of the CMU Portugal National Directors, Inês Lynce and Nuno Nunes; the CMU Portugal Director at CMU, José M.F. Moura; the Executive Director in Portugal, Sílvia Castro; the Associate Director at CMU, Megan Berty; and Ana Reis from the International Partnerships Office at FCT.

After the initial opening remarks by Madalena Alves (FCT) and James H. Garrett (CMU), the CMU Portugal directors presented the CMU Portugal Progress Report for 2022 and the plan of activities for 2023. In the end, it was discussed the vision plan for CMU Portugal’s next funding phase after 2023.

In a meeting held in parallel, the ERC gathered for a final internal meeting to evaluate the Program’s overall performance, followed by the presentation of the Committee’s report to the CMU Portugal Directors.

The External Review Committee is appointed by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT). This committee reviews the yearly activities implemented by the CMU Portugal Program in general and has an advisory role oriented toward the independent evaluation of the activities of the Program. The CMU Portugal ERC members elected for CMU Portugal 3rd phase are: Sir John O’Reilly as Chair (UCL, UK and A* STAR Singapore; Fernando Pereira (Google, USA); Yvonne Rogers (UCL, UK); Giulio Sandini (IIT, Italy); and Ali Sayed (EPFL, Switzerland).

As a result of these extensive interactions during the two days of the Conference, the ERC will soon present a Public Report that will be published on our website.

 

The CMU Portugal Program Summit 2022 “New Frontiers in tech” counted with a high participation of CMU Portugal students, with 54 posters submitted, allowing them to present their research work at the Poster Sessions held throughout the Summit. The posters were exhibited during the two-day event at Factory Lisbon rooftop. They were a great way for students to interact with CMU Portugal Community during coffee and lunch breaks. The Exhibit continues even after the end of the meeting with all the posters available online- E-Posters.

The work and the legacy of the CMU Portugal Program in higher education was the discussion topic at the Roundtable “Talent Development”. This session gathered five students and alumnsfrom the Dual Degree and Affiliated Ph.D. Programs, to share with the audience their experience and other useful insights. The discussion was conducted by Bill Sanders, Dean of CMU College of Engineering and João Magalhães, Professor at FCT NOVA.

To represent the Alumni community: Sabina Zejnilovic, CMU Portugal Dual Degree Ph.D. Alumni and Data Scientist at Cloudflare, and Susana Brandão, CMU Portugal Dual Degree Ph.D. Alumni and Expert Data Scientist at Feedzai. As students were part of the panel: Alex Gaudio, CMU Portugal Dual Degree Ph.D. in ECE; Maria Andrada, CMU Portugal Affiliated Ph.D. in Robotics and Rudolph Santarromana, CMU Portugal Dual Degree Ph.D. in EPP.

The discussion was a success, with a large participation from the audience at the Q&A, a great way to show the outcomes of the CMU Portugal Educational Initiatives and the impact that they have on the higher education system in Portugal and at CMU.

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