In the 2025 calendar year, 13 students from the Doctoral Program in Computer Science and Engineering (DEIC) successfully defended their doctoral theses.

The list of students, now PhDs, and their respective doctoral thesis topics is as follows:

• Daniel Correia Andrade, “Trusted Execution Environment Migration”;

• Diogo Afonso Pedro Nunes, “Language-based Computational Assessment of Chronic Pain in Multiple Contexts”;
• Inês Filipa Coelho dos Santos Silva, “Emotions2All: Supporting Emotional and Social Wellbeing of Stroke Survivors through Digital Interactions with the Care Network”;

• João Manuel Godinho Ribeiro, “Ad Hoc Teamwork in the Real-World”;
• João O'Neill Cortes, “An Over-constrained Approach for Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization”;
• João Pedro Rodrigues Góis, “Toward Real-World NILM: Analytical and Empirical Procedures for Assessing Comparability and Reproducibility”;
• Nicolas Lee Guidotti, “Efficient Stochastic Algorithms for Computing Matrix Functions”;
• Nuno Filipe Verdelho Trindade, “Immersive Analytics in Dam Safety Control”;
• Pedro Miguel Orvalho Marques da Silva, “MENTOR : Automated Feedback for Introductory Programming Exercises”;
• Renata Alves Castelo Branco, “ReAD: Representational Algorithmic Design”;
• Rita Moreira Parada Ramos, “Image Captioning with Retrieval Augmentation”;
• Sofia Oliveira Reis, “Understanding and Improving Static Application Security Testing Tools”;
• Soraia Isabel Figueiredo Paulo, “Towards AI-enhanced Cancer Multidisciplinary Team Meetings”

Many congratulations to the new PhDs in Computer Science and Engineering! 🎓