Doctoral Consortium

The Doctoral Consortium is a workshop for Ph.D. students from the dual degree programs in the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program who are in the early phases of their dissertation work. The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to help students with their thesis and research plans by providing feedback and general advice on using the research environment in a constructive and interdisciplinary atmosphere. Students will present and discuss their thesis in the context of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Partnership outside of their usual department or research group atmosphere.

Several prominent professors and industry representatives will be called to attend the consortium and critique and comment on the content of the thesis as well as on the presentation. Students will have 15 minutes to present their research, focusing on the main theme of their thesis, what they have achieved so far and how they plan to continue their work. Another 15 minutes is reserved for discussion and feedback from both the professors and other participants.

Program

  • 09:00 –- 09:10 – Welcome and DC Outline
  • 09:10 — 10:40 – Session I
  • 10:40 — 11:00 – Coffee break
  • 11:00 — 12:30 – Session II
  • 12:30 — 14:15 – Lunch – Group discussions
  • 14:15 — 16:00 – Session III
  • 16:00 — 16:40 – Living and studyng in the US (a CMU experience)
  • 16:40 — 17:00 – Final Comments and Conclusions

The complete program is available here.

Workshop Organizers

caires-luis_125x15011 Luís Caires is an Associate Professor and he also directs the Centre for Informatics and Information Technology. His research activities are centered on principles and tools for software construction, programming languages, and language based analysis techniques for concurrency and security. He teaches a range of courses on programming languages theory, design and implementation, program analysis, software verification, and principles of concurrency and security. His recent research projects focus on programming language-based verification techniques for concurrency and security in distributed and service based systems, e.g. Sensoria, SecureSpace, SpaceTimeTypes, and MobiLog, in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon. He holds Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from the New University of Lisbon, and a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Lisbon. campilho_150x1501 Aurélio Campilho is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto .There, he teaches Image Analysis and Recognition, Biomedical Image Analysis, Measurement, Sensors and Instrumentation, and Computer Programming. In 1985, he earned his Ph.D. from FEUP, where he also earned his undergraduate and post-graduate degrees. Campiho’s research interests include Medical Imaging, Image Analysis, and Pattern Recognition. His is currently involved in research projects such as Support Servers for Local and Remote Biological and Medical Image Analysis and Computer Vision (National Program for Scientific Re-equipment; Portuguese Research Council) and BING – Brain Imaging Network Grid (Leader Institution: Universidade de Aveiro; Investigador). Campilho has also worked as Adjunct Director at FEUP’s Doctoral Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and as President of the Institute for Biomedical Engineering.
fdsfoto2 Fernando Silva studied Applied Mathematics at the University of Porto and in 1987 went to England were he obtained the M.Sc. in Computing at UMIST (1988) and the Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Manchester (1993) under the supervision of Prof. Paul Watson. In 2007, obtained the Habilitation in Informatics from the New University of Lisbon. He joined the Department of Applied Mathematics in 1985 and later, in 1996, joined the newly created Computer Science Department, both departments are at the Faculty of Science of the University of Porto (FCUP). He currently is an associate professor at FCUP, coordinates the Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems (CRACS), is the Director of MAP-i, the Doctoral Program in Computer Science of the Universities of Minho, Aveiro and Porto (2008/09 edition) and is the PI for the Dual PhD Degree in Computer Science between MAPi and Carnegie Mellon University, representing UP. He was head of the Computer Science Department from 1/2006 till 12/2007. image0011 João Paulo Costeira (www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~jpc) received his BSc, MSc and PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (http://www.ist.utl.pt) in 1985,1989 and 1995 respectively. From 1992 to 1995 he was a visiting scientist at Carnegie Mellon’s VASC (vasc.ri.cmu.edu). Currently he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico and a researcher at Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica (www.isr.ist.utl.pt <http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt>). He is the coordinator of thematic area “Signal Processing for Communication Networks and Multimedia” of the ISR-Associated Lab (http://welcome.isr.ist.utl.pt/about/assoclab/). His research interests are focused on visual perception, particularly 3D reconstruction, object recognition and motion analysis.