PhD & Postdoc Symposium

The Unit organises an annual PhD and Postdoc Symposium for early career researchers to promote their research and get feedback from their peers. 

2023 Symposium

The first PhD and postdoc symposium of the Lisbon ELLIS Unit took place on September 22nd, and was attended by 50 students and postdocs in our network from various fields, including Robotics, Reinforcement Learning, Natural Language Processing, Health, and Computer Vision. 

It featured a talk about the Centre for Responsible AI, given by its CEO Paulo Dimas, a talk given by former PhD student João Santinha on AI and medical imaging, and a panel discussion about "Life after a PhD" given by former students from the network who are now postdocs or junior PIs. The day concluded with a lunch and poster session. 

2024 Symposium

We held our second PhD and Postdoc Symposium on Friday 4th October , bringing together over 40 PhD students and Postdocs working with faculty from the ELLIS Unit Lisbon to showcase their exciting work in the fields of AI and ML. 

The symposium featured flashtalks by PhD students, a poster session with industry posters  (Feedzai, Priberam, NeuralShift & Zendesk), and a career development panel focusing on the transition from PhD/postdoc to group leader. Our invited keynote was André Cruz, a PhD student of ELLIS Fellow Moritz Hardt working at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tubingen. André’s work focuses on responsible AI and his talk was titled “Seven Years of Algorithmic Fairness”.

Upcoming event: 2025 Symposium

Registration for the 2025 PhD and Postdoc Symposium is open.

When: 10th October, 9.30am – 2.30 pm

Where: Salão Nobre, IST

The day will feature:

- Keynote address by Zita Marinho from Google DeepMind

- Four student presentations by your PhD colleagues from ISR, INESC-ID, and IT

- A poster session including industry presentations from EleutherAI, Feedzai, OutSystems, Priberam, and others. Prizes will be given. 

- "Alternative Careers to Academia“ panel discussion on diverse careers such as science communication, grant development, building a start-up and developing inter-governmental science collaborations.

Register here until the 30th of September.