Date: 16th November
Hour: 5 p.m.
Venue: Congress Centre, Alameda Campus, Civil Engineering building (Floor -1)
Participate: Registration (free of charge and mandatory)
Get to know the master’s programmes offered by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Técnico, the professors, the students and all the opportunities that open up when you come to study at Técnico.
Programme:
5.15 p.m. | Opening of doors
5.30 p.m. | Lecture: Prof. Arlindo Oliveira (30min + 30min for questions)
6.30 p.m.| Get to know the master’s programmes with students, professors and opportunities (student support, scholarships, internationalisation)
7.30 p.m. | End of event
Lecture:
Artificial intelligence, machine learning and bioinformatics, we will go through the projects developed by the professor over the last 35 years, with a focus on the developments of the last decade related to deep learning.
Arlindo Oliveira was born in Angola and lived in Mozambique, Portugal, Switzerland, United States (California and Massachusetts), and Japan. He has a degree from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) and a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a Distinguished Full Professor at Técnico, President of the Instituto de Sistemas e Computadores (INESC), non-executive director of Caixa Geral de Depósitos, researcher at INESC-ID, member of the National Council for Science, Technology and Innovation and member of the Advisory Board of the Science and Technology Panel of the European Parliament (STOA). He has published four books, translated into several languages, and hundreds of scientific and scientific dissemination articles. He was director of several companies and institutions and president of Técnico, the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence and INESC-ID. He was the director of the Portuguese node of the European Biological Data Network ELIXIR, a visiting professor at MIT and the University of Tokyo, and a researcher at CERN, INESC, Cadence Research Laboratories and the Electronics Research Lab at Berkeley. He is a member of the Academy of Engineering and a senior member of the IEEE. He has received several awards and distinctions, including the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa / Santander award for excellence in research in 2009. At Instituto Superior Técnico, he has taught Programming Fundamentals, Algorithms and Data Structures, Analysis and Synthesis of Algorithms, Machine Learning, Computer Architecture, Computational Biology and Advanced Algorithms.
Master’s Programmes offered by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering:
- Master’s Programme in Computer Science and Engineering (Alameda + Taguspark)
- Master’s Programme in Telecommunications and Informatics Engineering
- Master’s Programme in Data Science and Engineering
About Técnico MasterTalks:
Técnico offers 33 master’s programmes ranging from Engineering to Architecture, Aerospace Engineering to Bioengineering, Engineering Physics to Civil Engineering, Electronics Engineering to Chemistry, Natural Resources to Computer Science, Management to Nuclear Technologies, including Mathematics.
Every month, we invite you to come and meet the professors, and to learn more about the student projects and all the opportunities that are available to those who study at Técnico. The MasterTalks take place on a Thursday, at 5.15 p.m., in Técnico Congress Centre, Lisbon.
