26-11-2020

IT researchers among the world’s top 100,000 scientists

IT researchers have figured among the world’s most influential scientists, according to a new ranking method developed by scientists at Stanford University. (see more)

In an attempt to tackle abuses of self-citation and ‘citation farms’ (relatively small clusters of authors massively citing each other’s papers), a team at Stanford University, led by Professor John P.A. Ioannides, recently ...

23-11-2020

IT researcher wins biggest tech innovation prize in Portugal

Ricardo Correia, researcher from IT in Aveiro, won the Altice International Innovation Award 2020 in the Academy category. (see more)



In a record-breaking edition with more than 100 entries, Ricardo Correia was one of the first-place winners, receiving a 25,000 euro prize for his project “Passive Backscatter Sensors for Internet of Things Applications”.

The winning project aims to ...

18-11-2020

IT students win Best Student Paper Award at WPTC 2020

PhD students hosted by IT were distinguished with the Best Student Paper Award at one of the world’s largest wireless power events. (see more)



The winning paper, titled “A Hybrid System Combining SWIPT and Backscatter Techniques”, was authored by PhD students Felisberto Pereira and Marina Jordão (hosted by IT in Aveiro), along with researcher Ricardo Correia. The students were supervised ...

16-11-2020

DigiScope2 making strides in cardiac pathology screening with new AI technology

IT researchers are delving into AI and ‘deep learning’ techniques to extract useful diagnostic information from cardiac sounds. (see more)




The DigiScope2 team, led by IT researchers Miguel Coimbra and Francesco Renna, aims to create a field-ready prototype of a computer-assisted decision system for cardiac auscultation, by incoporating new artificial intelligence algorithms into a ...