Success Stories
May 2013
Patrick Agyapong Successfully Defended his Ph.D. Thesis
Ph.D. Student Awarded Scholarship for the Summer Academy on Sustainable Energy Finance
Portuguese Team is one of the Finalists of the Ericsson Application Awards 2013
Ph.D. Student Investigates New Techniques to Improve Speech Recognition
Sabina Zejnilovic, Dual Degree Ph.D. Student: “I would like to make a positive impact in our everyday life"
April 2013
CMU Portugal Alumnus Receives Best Young Teacher Award from Oulu University
New Facilities of M-ITI Reflect the Commitment to the CMU Portugal Program’s Mission
March 2013
Gopala Anumanchipalli Receives IEEE Spoken Language Processing Student Grant
Byron Yu Visits Portugal to Strengthen Research Collaboration on Neuroscience
Sven Stork Ph.D. Thesis Defense in Software Engineering
Veniam ’Works Wins International Entrepreneurship Competition
The Faculty Exchange Program “Was a Very Fruitful and Successful Experience”
February 2013
Mambu Startup Obtains Funds to Expand its Microfinance Service
José Moura Was Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Frank Pfenning Appointed Head of Carnegie Mellon’s Computer Science Department
January 2013
James Garrett is the New Dean of the College of Engineering
November, 2012
Academia Up With Industry Improves Intelligent Surveillance Systems
Orientation Day in Portugal and at CMU
October, 2012
Universidade do Porto Start’s a New Partnership with Carnegie Mellon
Chairman of the CMU Portugal ERC Leads Knowledge and Innovation in the UK
August, 2012
From Portuguese to English and Vice-Versa: An Innovative Speech Translation System
"These Robots are not Science Fiction," Explained Manuela Veloso
Internships in the Summer Holidays: Why Not?
July, 2012
António Casimiro Says: “To Ensure a Trustworthy Network Operation will be Crucial for Telecom Operators”
Francisco Veloso said: "We want to Educate Agents of Change"
Employees as User Innovators
June, 2012
IBM Scientific Award 2011 Distinguishes Doctorate of the CMU Portugal
“Today it is Fundamental to Experience Mobility and to Work in Network”, said José Machado da Silva
National Director Successfully Completes the "Agregação"
Sérgio Pequito Receives ECE Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award at CMU
Francisco Veloso, scientific director of the CMU Portugal program, is the new Dean of CATÓLICA-LISBON School of Business and Economics
May, 2012
André Martins Gets a Ph.D. and is Hired by Priberam
January, 2012
External Review Committee said: “We are impressed especially by the way the program has secured strong engagement from industry in Portugal.”
December, 2011
Internship: “A Win-Win Process to the University, to the Company, and to the Student”
Irene Fonseca Elected the President of the SIAM
Master Student wins Best Poster and Demo Awards at Videojogos 2011 Conference
November, 2011
Carla Costa’s Paper Receives an Honorable Mention for Best Paper at the 2011 SMS Conference
Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center donates Kids Interactive Creation Kiosk to Madeira
October, 2011
Susana Sargento said: “Knowledge Applied in Strategic Areas Can Help Companies to Go Further”
Doctoral Student Wants to Give a Strong Contribution to the Machine Translation Community
Third Annual Carnegie Mellon Portugal Conference: Strong Engagement between Universities, Companies and End Users
Manuel Beja, from Novabase, said: “We are helping to Change the Academia in Portugal”
September, 2011
Can Ye: “This Program Provides the Opportunity to Do Cutting-Edge Research”
Rodrigo Ventura said: “The Academic Community would benefit from a More Widespread Participation in this Faculty Exchange Program”
Doctoral Student Presents Paper at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2011
August, 2011
Rui Prior Said: "Graduate Courses at Carnegie Mellon are More Research Oriented"
Novabase Creates Software Engineering Group with Carnegie Mellon Portugal Alumni
July, 2011
Bruno Cabral said: “Faculty Exchange Objectives were Accomplished and Even Exceeded”
June, 2011
Doctoral Students Do Research in Different Engineering and Public Policy Problems
2011 MSE Welcome Session: “Our Expectations are that Students Meet Their Expectations”
May, 2011
Eight Portuguese MSE Students Spent the Spring Semester at CMU
April, 2011
Novabase Academy Graduates 2011 Visit Carnegie Mellon University
March, 2011
Innovative Projects Give Positive Advantages to Portugal
February, 2011
João Gabriel Silva is the New Rector of the Universidade de Coimbra
Faculty Exchange Gives an Intellectual and Cultural Enriching Experience
Faculty Exchange Gives Positive Experience
January, 2011
Nine Faculty from Portugal are at Carnegie Mellon during the Spring
December, 2010
Faculty Exchange Program Increases the Professional Relations with CMU’s Researchers
First Semester of the Incoming 2012 Entertainment Technology Class of the Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute
November, 2010
Paper Reveals that Firm Size and Growth is Mediated by the Industry Conditions
October, 2010
EPP Student looks into Telecom Policy for Developing Countries
Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program External Review Committee Report 2010
September, 2010
MSE Program Officially Welcomes New Program Coordinator
Logica Hires Alumni and Launches New Lab in Madeira
Student Orientation in Portugal Promotes Entrepreneurial Experiences
Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program Student Orientation
August, 2010
Gopala Anumanchipalli Presents a Paper at the 7th ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop (ITRW)
July, 2010
New Master in Entertainment Technologies is unique in the European Context
Alexandre Mateus Completes Dual-Degree in January as Program’s First Ph.D. Graduate
June, 2010
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) Accepts Paper from the Ph.D. Student in ECE Mate Boban - "Impact of Vehicles as Obstacles in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks"
2010 Doctoral Consortium Promotes Interdisciplinary Environment
May, 2010
Cristina Carias Presents a Paper at the Schumpeter 2010
April, 2010
Ph.D Student Recognized for Research with a Global Impact
Carnegie Mellon's T.E. (Ed) Schlesinger Received David Edward Schramm Memorial Professorship
March, 2010
Portuguese Students won Carnegie Mellon University’s first Open Innovation Competition
Portuguese Ph.D. Student Launches Priberam Machine Learning Lunch Seminars
Mate Boban Reflects on his Experiences as an ECE Ph.D. Student in Porto
Carnegie Mellon Portugal program Diploma Ceremony: Graduates Received Their Dual Degree Diplomas
February, 2010
Alumni Speech during the Diploma Ceremony: Nuno Seixas, MSE Graduate
January, 2010
João Mota and his Qualifier Exam Experience
Jerónimo Rodrigues and his Qualifier Exam Experience
December, 2009
HCI Student Wins International Competition
November, 2009
Ph.D. Student in Applied Mathematics: Rita Ferreira
October, 2009
Carla Costa is an Agent of Change
Best Student Paper in Distributed Systems Awarded
September, 2009
ERC Members state: “The Program is contributing substantially to the transformation of University research and graduate education in Portugal”
Alexandre Mateus: Doctoral student in the ICTI Engineering and Public Policy program
The first Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy in Portugal
Francisco Veloso Tapped To Teach in Portugal
Orientation Day in Portugal
August, 2009
Carnegie Mellon Portugal Hosts Annual Orientation
July, 2009
Philipo Cagnetti: Post-Doc in Mathematics Department
June, 2009
Andreia Christina Rafael: Ph.D. in Technological Change and Entrepreneurship
April, 2009
Carnegie Mellon|Portugal Program partners with the University of Texas at Austin for the 2009 Colab Mathematics Summer School and Workshop
March, 2009
The international alliance
Doctoral Program in Computer Science series (MAP-i) with open nominations
February, 2009
PT supports Academy of Sciences of Mozambique with IT hardware
UA hosts information sessions on opportunities for students
January, 2009
UA and Carnegie Mellon promote joint Masters
Agreement of Cooperation Lajes earns only to Lisbon: Azores remain outside the compensation