The Program

Wednesday, November 9th

9:30 - 10:00

Registration

10:00 - 10:30

Welcome Note

Inês Lynce
Co-Director, CMU Portugal Program

Sir John O’Reilly
Chair, CMU Portugal External Review Committee (ERC)

James H. Garrett
Provost, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)


Madalena Alves
President, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT)

10:30 – 10:45

R&D+I for social impact

Moderator

Nuno Nunes
Co-Director, CMU Portugal Program

Speaker

Inês Oom de Sousa
President, Fundação Santander Portugal

10:45 – 11:15

Keynote I

Moderator

Inês Lynce
Co-Director, CMU Portugal Program

Keynote Speaker

Vasco Pedro
Co-Founder and CEO, Unbabel

11:15 – 12:00

Roundtable

Mobilizing agendas for business innovation

Moderators


Sir John O’Reilly
Chair, CMU Portugal ERC

Joana Mendonça
President, ANI


Discussion Panel

Responsible AI:
Paulo Dimas
VP of product innovation, Unbabel

The Egames Lab Project:
Miguel Campos
CEO, Wow Systems

Neurospace:
Carlos Cerqueira
Business Development Manager, Neuraspace

12:00- 13:30

Lunch Break and Poster Student 

13:30 - 14:30

Rountable - Talent Development

Moderators

Bill Sanders
Dean, College of Engineering, CMU

João Magalhães
FCT NOVA


Discussion Panel

Rudolph Santarromana
CMU Portugal Dual Degree Ph.D. in EPP

Maria Andrada
CMU Portugal Affiliated Ph.D. in Robotics

Alex Gaudio
CMU Portugal Dual Degree Ph.D. in ECE

Sabina Zejnilovic
CMU Portugal Dual Degree Ph.D. Alumni, Data Scientist at Cloudflare

Susana Brandão
CMU Portugal Dual Degree Ph.D. Alumni, Expert Data Scientist at Feedzai

14:30- 15:30

Improving machine learning and applications in healthcare

Moderators

Jodi Forlizzi
CMU

João Paulo Cunha
FEUP/INESC TEC

Discussion Panel

WoW: Wireless biOmonitoring stickers and smart bed architecture: toWards Untethered Patients

TAMI: Transparent Artificial Medical Intelligence

IntelligentCare: Intelligent Multimorbidity Management System

15:30- 16:00

Coffee Break and Poster Session

16:00- 16:30

Keynote II

Moderator

Nuno Nunes
Co-Director, CMU Portugal Program

Keynote Speaker

Gil Azevedo
Executive Director, Startup Lisboa

16:30- 16:45

Closing remarks

Nuno Nunes
Co-Director, CMU Portugal Program </em

Thursday, November 10th

9:00 - 9:30

Keynote III - Societal Computing

Moderator

Bill Sanders
Dean, College of Engineering, CMU

Keynote Speaker

Nicolas Christin
Professor in Engineering and Public Policy, Software, and Societal Systems Department, CMU

9:30 - 11:00

AI for extracting value from data

Moderators

Giulio Sandini
CMU Portugal ERC Member, Italian Institute of Technology

Paulo Marques
Co-founder and Technical Fellow, Feedzai

Discussion Panel

Building HOPE - Building Holistic Optimization of Prosumed Energy

BEE2WasteCrypto

FLOYD: 5G/SDN Intelligent Systems For LOw latencY V2X communications in cross-Domain mobility applications

SafeForest: Semi-Autonomous Robotic System for Forest Cleaning and Fire Prevention

11:00 - 11:15

Coffee break and Poster Session

11:15 - 12:00

Explorative ideas for ambitious goals I


Moderators

Ruben Martins
CMU

João Ferreira
Técnico/INESC ID

Discussion Panel

DIVINA: Detecting Injection Vulnerabilities In Node.js Applications

PROMETHEUS – PocketQube Framework Designed for Research and Educational access to Space

DAnon: Supervised Deanonymization of Dark Web Traffic for Cybercrime Investigation

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch break and Poster session

13:00 - 14:00

Adaptive, automated, and autonomic computing

Moderators

Isabel Trancoso
Técnico/INESC ID

João Barros
Chief Platform Officer, Nexar

Discussion Panel

CAMELOT: autonomiC plAtform for MachinE Learning using anOnymized daTa

GOLEM: Automated Programming to Revolutionize App Development automat programming, app development

AIDA: Adaptive, Intelligent and Distributed Assurance Platform

14:00 – 14:45

Understanding conversations to improve productivity

Moderators

Fernando Pereira
VP and Engineering Fellow, Google

Lia Patricio
FEUP/INESC TEC

Discussion Panel

iFetch: Multimodal conversational agents for the online fashion marketplace

MAIA: Multilingual Virtual Agents for Customer Service

14:45 - 15:00

Coffee Break and Poster Session

15:00 - 15:45

Explorative ideas for ambitious goals II

Moderators

Rema Padman
CMU

Francisca Leite
Director, Hospital da Luz Learning Health

Discussion Panel

Exoskins: AI Codesign of Robotic and Personalized Compliant Exoskins for Physical Exercises, Prosthesis and Rehabilitation

shiftHRI: Exploring the Transfer of Agency to Older Adults in HRI

MD2TRUST: Trustworthy data science for improving healthcare efficiency: the case of the medical referral process

15:45 - 16:15

Keynote IV - From hands-on experimentation to Industry Commons

Moderator

Nuno Nunes
Co-Director, CMU Portugal Program

Keynote Speaker

Michela Magas
Chair, Industry Commons Foundation

16:15 - 16:30

Closing remarks

José M.F.Moura
Director at CMU, CMU Portugal Program

James H. Garrett
Provost, Carnegie Mellon University

Sir John O’Reilly
Chair, CMU Portugal ERC

Madalena Alves
President, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia