on 05-12-2025
The Instituto de Telecomunicações - Lisbon Branch is pleased to invite all its members to the IT Lisbon Meeting 2025 - 1st Edition, which will take place on December 5th at the Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicações – Museu das Comunicações.
This event aims to share relevant information about the branch, discuss various aspects of our organization, promote scientific debate, and, at the same time, provide moments of interaction, relaxation, and social connection among all participants.
The program includes PhD student pitch sessions, lunch, a visit to the Museum, and other social activities.
We look forward to welcoming everyone to this first edition of the IT Lisbon Meeting 2025!
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Event Agenda
09:30 – 10:00
Welcome & Check-in (Foyer)
10:00 – 10:30
Opening Session & Tributes (Auditorium - 2nd Floor)
10:30 – 11:30
Parallel Sessions:
- General Meeting – Researchers (Auditorium)
- Museum Visit – Staff & PhD Students (Museum)
11:30 – 12:40
Keynote Speakers (Auditorium)

Dynamic Competences for Global Challenges
Lino Dias - Vice President at Bayer AG, global strategy company's leader for fruits

Driving Innovation in the New Space Era
Nelson Fonseca - Chief Innovation Officer at AnyWaves
12:45 – 14:00
Lunch (Atrium)
14:00 – 15:00
PhD Pitch – PhD Students (Auditorium)
- Akilu Rilwan (Information and Data Sciences): Transportation Mode Detection from crowdsourced GPS Trajectory Datasets
- Catarina Bernardo (Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies): Study of Different Solar Structures: Simulation of Photoelectric Conversion Devices, Optimisation and Different Applications
- Gonçalo Figueiredo (Optics and Photonics): Role of photonics in future sustainable smart cities: An integrated approach of Visible Light Communications and Luminescent Solar Concentrators
- Guilherme Fonseca (Optics and Photonics): Multiple Unidirectional Topological Channels in Electromagnetic Continua
- Lian Xie (Basic Sciences & Enabling Technologies): Subsurface defect detection using eddy current testing
- Miguel Ferreira (Networks & Services): Routing in Data-centers: Theoretical Limits and Algorithms
- Muchao Zhang (Basic Sciences & Enabling Technologies): Damage Characterization in Composite Structures using Ultrasonic Guided Waves
- Mushahid Hussain (Wireless Technologies): Machine Learning based Access Point Selection for Connected Vehicles
- Nila Bagheri (Networks & Services): Efficient Spectrum Sharing in Beyond 5G RIS-enabled Cell-free Massive MIMO Communications
- Ramna Maqsood (Information and Data Sciences): Multi-modal detection using deep learning
- Sofia Figueiredo (Networks & Services): Design and Evaluation of Molecular Communication Systems for the Internet of Bio-Nano Things
- Sofia Martins (Networks and Services): Energy-aware Link Adaptation in 5G Networks using Reinforcement Learning
(featuring alphabetically)
15:00 – 15:45
Thematic Line Challenges (Auditorium)
Hugo Plácido da Silva & Ana Aguiar
15:45 – 16:45
Parallel Sessions:
- Museum Visit – Researchers (Museum)
- Career Information – Staff (Room 2)
- Team Building: “Director for a Day” – PhD Students (Auditorium)
16:45 – 17:30
Debate on Scientific Structure (Auditorium)
17:30 – 18:15
Closing Session, "Porto de Honra" & Team Building Presentation (Atrium)
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