CeDRI is pleased to congratulate Tiago Sanches Franco, who on January 15th was unanimously approved in his public exams for the doctorate in Informatics with his thesis “Clinical Decision Support System to Electrostimulation Treatments for Muscle Rehabilitation in the Eldery”, at the University of Minho. The doctoral thesis was supervised by Professor Pedro Henriques from the University of Minho and Professors Paulo Alves and Maria João Pereira from CeDRI-IPB.

We are delighted to congratulate the CeDRI team, Gabriel de Arruda Leite, Beatriz Flamia Azevedo, Maria F. Pacheco, Florbela P. Fernandes and Ana I. Pereira, for winning best paper at the DaSET2024 conference with the article entitled “Liver Disease Detection with Combined Machine Learning Algorithms and Voting Classifiers”.

We are please to celebrate the first place award of Isaac Van-Deste Marcelino and Júlio Castro Lopes in the Application Competition for Intelligent Reality (ACIR) of the 2024 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Reality (ICIR 2024), in the past 5th of December. The team participated with the technological integration of smart interactive devices, immersive technologies, artificial intelligence, machine learning algorithms, and IoT in an Intelligent Reality (IR) application for Schizophrenia Patients Rehabilitation. Congratulations to the team and keep making us proud.

We are pleased to share that on December 3, CeDRI researcher João Afonso Braun Neto completed his PhD program in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto! The CeDRI team congratulates him!

This year, Adriano Silva participated as guest speaker in the MIT Annual Conference, showcasing part of the work carried out in CeDRI in his PhD.

Part of the CeDRI team had the honor of participating in the TEEM24 Conference in Alicante, Spain. On this occasion, researcher Laiany presented her work entitled "Learning Mobile Robotics: An Approach Based on a Classroom Competition", developed together with researchers Mariano Alvarez, João Coelho, Miguel Conde, Paulo Costa and José Gonçalves, having been recognized as the Best Article of the Track "New Trends in Teaching Mechatronics Engineering". Congratulations, researchers and teachers, for the great work.

The second meeting of the transnational project ThinkGame took place at the Faculty of Automation, Computer, Electrical Engineering and Electronics of the University Dunarea de Jos em Galati, Roménia, at 23th and 24th of October 2024.

On 25 October, CeDRI had the honour of receiving a visit from Professor Vera Vasilévski, from the Computer Science department of the Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPR), Santa Helena Campus.

Last 21 and 22 of October, CeDRI participated in a meeting of the partners of the EYDIgifolio project in Dublin, Ireland, where the structure of the online application for the documentation of children’s learning and development was discussed. The innovative platform will be available for teachers to observe, manage the observation mementos and use them to better structure and understand the children development.

CeDRI had part on the five days of learning and ideas held at the Ciência Viva de Bragança, where the researcher Joana Fernandes showed the little scientists how programming can help medicine and voice care.