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The ELLIS Unit Lisbon was established in 2020 with a mission to become the leading artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) research unit in Portugal, establish strong links with Europe, and boost collaborative research and training in the field through participation in events, joint activities, and mobility programs. With a focus on Human-Interacting Responsible AI, research within the Unit aims to develop robust, open, explainable, trustworthy, and efficient AI.
Vision
The Unit brings together researchers from different AI & ML sub-fields with the common goal of designing human-interacting responsible AI systems: this involves a strong bet on human language technologies, social and cognitive robotics, and health, well supported by the development of efficient and reliable ML systems with theoretical guarantees. The unit exploits synergies between these areas towards the unified goal of designing AI systems that interact seamlessly with humans, learning from them and for them.
We are hosted at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) of the University of Lisbon (UL), bringing together researchers from three leading research institutes in AI and ML - Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT), Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores (INESC-ID), and the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR-Lisboa).
IT is a private, not-for-profit organisation of public interest, comprising nine institutions with research and development in the field of Telecommunications. IT is actively involved in fundamental and applied research, both at national and international levels, across five thematic areas:
- Wireless Technologies; Optics and Photonics; Information and Data Science; Networks and Services; Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies.
INESC-ID is a Research and Development and Innovation Organisation (R&D+i) in the fields of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering. Their research impact is focused on four thematic areas:
- Digital transformation and citizenship; Life and health technology; Energy transition; Security and privacy.
ISR-Lisboa is a multidisciplinary research institution in the areas of Robotics and Information Processing, including Systems and Control Theory, Signal Processing, Computer Vision, AI and Intelligent Systems and Biomedical Engineering. ISR-Lisboa is organized in the following five research groups/labs:
- Computer and Robot Vision; Dynamical Systems and Ocean Robotics; Evolutionary Systems and Biomedical Engineering; Intelligent Robots and Systems Group; Signal and Image Processing Group.
Organisational structure:
Unit Director: Mario Figueiredo (IT)
Unit Coordinator: Ana Saraiva Ayash (IT)
Executive committee: André Martins (IT), Arlindo Oliveira (INESC-ID), Inês Lynce (INESC-ID), Pedro U. Lima (ISR) & José Santos-Victor (ISR).
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