In 2024, 14 students from the PhD program in Computer Engineering (DEIC) and 1 from the PhD program in Digital Media successfully defended their doctoral theses. Congratulations to the new doctors! 

It is worth highlighting that the percentage of women defending their theses in the PhD programs of DEI in 2024 was 40% (in 2023, the percentage of theses defended by women was 23.5%). :-)  

The list of students (now Doctors) and the topics of their doctoral theses is as follows:

• Ana Isabel Caniço Neto, PhD program in Computer Engineering, “Fostering Inclusion among Mixed-Visual Ability Children through Social Robots”;
• Ana Marta Galvão Ferreira, PhD program in Digital Media, “Towards an HCI Approach to Communicate and Engage with Climate Change: A Data Humanism Framework”;
• Carla Andreia Nibau Guerra de Azevedo, PhD program in Computer Engineering, “Interactive Machine Teaching with Unknown Human Learners”;
• Cláudio José Pereira Correia, PhD program in Computer Engineering, “Low-Latency Privacy-Preserving Access to Edge Storage”;
• Danielle Caled Vieira, PhD program in Computer Engineering,“A Data Science Approach for Handling Misinformation in Digital Media”;
• Francisco Maria Galamba Ferrari Calisto, PhD program in Computer Engineering, “Human-Centered Design of Personalized Intelligent Agents in Medical Imaging Diagnosis”;
• Jéssica Gouveia Pereira Corujeira,PhD program in Computer Engineering, “Augmentation of Situation Awareness Through Multimodal Interfaces in Mobile Robot Teleoperation”;
• João Pedro Lavadinho Moreira, PhD program in Computer Engineering, “Incidental Visualizations: Unintentional Gateways to Information”;
• Luís Gouveia Coutinho Sá Couto, PhD program in Computer Engineering, “Robust classification and associative memory using post-selection object-dependent codes - Employing brain-inspired principles towards better and more general learning of simple vision”;
• Rafael André Pestana Belchior, PhD program in Computer Engineering, “Distributed Ledger Interoperability Security”;
• Ricardo Costa Dias Rei, PhD program in Computer Engineering, “Robust, Interpretable and Efficient MT Evaluation with Fine-tuned Metrics”;
• Ricardo Eugénio Proença Rodrigues, PhD program in Computer Engineering, “Improving Believable Interactions in Real-time Multi-party Interactive Experiences”;
• Taisiya Glushkova, PhD program in Computer Engineering, “Uncertainty Estimation and Robustness in Machine Translation Evaluation”;
• Thomas Rolland, PhD program in Computer Engineering, “Towards improved automatic speech recognition for children”;
• Tiago Luís de Oliveira Brito, PhD program in Computer Engineering, “Applying Code Property Graphs On Modern Web Languages For Security and Privacy Analysis”.