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16-03-2026

AIS/VDES: Deployable Antennas for Portuguese LUSIADA Constellation

The NewSpace market for commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components is accelerating, enabling rapid integration and deployment of SmallSats. However, a few missions require unique subsystems, with ... [more...]
09-03-2026

Haoran Chi Receives the IEEE TCE 2025 Best Senior Editor Award

Haoran Chi, our researcher, was recently awarded the Best Senior Editor Award 2025 by IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics for his exceptional dedication, invaluable contributions to the ... [more...]
09-03-2026

European Quantum Security Project QuantumPUF Brings Together Leading Research Team

Yesterday, March 4th, was the kick-off of the project QuantumPUF -Portable Readout Quantum Physical Unclonable Function, a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme through the ... [more...]
03-03-2026

T3SH-City – Towards Truly Intelligent, Safe, Sustainable and Healthy Cities

T3SH-City - Towards Truly Intelligent, Safe, Sustainable, and Healthy Cities project aims to develop and test innovative solutions for urban and peri-urban territories, with a particular focus on the ... [more...]
19-02-2026

Instituto de Telecomunicações Shines at ETSI SNS4SNS 2026

Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) took part in the ETSI SNS4SNS 2026 event, held over four days in February 2026 at ETSI headquarters in Sophia Antipolis. [more...]
18-02-2026

Instituto de Telecomunicações at TIS 2026: Innovation, Defense, and Quantum Technologies

The Técnico Innovation Summit 2026 (TIS 2026) aims to establish itself as the main annual gathering of the innovation ecosystem of Instituto Superior Técnico. As expected, the Instituto de ... [more...]
17-02-2026

Mário Figueiredo Highlights the Role of Causal Discovery in the Future of AI

Mário Figueiredo recently spoke at the "AI for Good Global Summit" about one of the most important challenges facing modern artificial intelligence: understanding causality. [more...]
11-02-2026

No Power, No Signal? Storms and the Future of Emergency Communications in Portugal - Interview with António Rodrigues

Storm Kristin revealed Portugal’s heavy dependence on the electrical grid for telecommunications, especially mobile networks that rely on short-duration batteries and suffered both power loss and ... [more...]
Research Impact
26-02-2026

Contributions Included in the Historical “Milestones” of Quantum Error Correction in Proceedings of the IEEE

The contributions to quantum noise-guessing decoding have recently been included in the historical list of “Milestones” of Quantum Error Correction in a major overview article published in the ... [more...]
24-02-2026

New Patent: Bringing Cohesion and Determinism to Neural Network Initialization

The recent grant of a patent for a deterministic neural network weight initialization method marks a significant and cohesive advance in artificial intelligence research.
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18-02-2026

ROUTE 25 is advancing research with significant potential impact on road safety

Instituto de Telecomunicações is leading the development of next-generation vehicle communication technologies through the ROUTE 25 project, paving the way for safer, smarter, and more cooperative ... [more...]
12-07-2024

IT presented at ARTEX24 a game-changer solution for use in disaster scenarios

The IT team showcased cutting-edge technology at ARmy Technological EXperimentation (ARTEX 24), held from June 17th to July 5th at Campo Militar Santa Margarida. [more...]
04-02-2025

Paper on quantum science featured in the prestigious American Journal of Physics

The paper "Simple portable quantum key distribution for science outreach", authored by PhD Student Pedro Neto Mendes, and our researchers and professors from Instituto Superior Técnico, Paulo André ... [more...]
19-12-2025

AdvayaTech: New Spin-Off from IT and CICECO Brings Breakthrough Photonic Security Across Global Supply Chains

AdvayaTech is a newborn spin-off born from Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) labs and CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials, at the University of Aveiro. [more...]
06-05-2025

HealthTech Startup Lampsy Health Secures €230K Investment for AI-Powered Epilepsy Monitoring Device

Founded by our PhD Vicente Garção, Leonor Pereira, and Joana Pinto (co-founder of Clynx Health and IT entrepreneurship manager), Lampsy Health emerged as a spin-off from the Instituto de ... [more...]
Upcoming Events
Symposium
24-03-2026

Multicore Fibers & Intercore Crosstalk

In the scope of MATCH project, Iscte will host the symposium Multicore Fibers & Intercore Crosstalk.
Conference - CfP
01-04-2026

IEEESM - Enabling AI-Powered Seamless and Sustainable Mobility for All

The IEEE SM Organizing Committee invites you to submit your latest work to the IEEE International Conference on Smart Mobility (SM’26): "Enabling AI-Powered Seamless and Sustainable Mobility for All"
Course
06-04-2026

Near-Field Antennas Systems and Design

Instituto de Telecomunicações, Politécnica, Terrameta project, Iscte, IEEE Communication Society are launching the new biennial ESoA Course series devoted to Near-Field Antenna Systems and Design,
Jornadas IT
10-04-2026

Jornadas IT 2026

"Jornadas IT 2026" will be held under the central theme “Space, Defense and Emerging Technologies”, highlighting the Institute’s growing role in strategic national and European domains, including
Conference - CfP
29-06-2026

IEEE EEEIC 2026 - 26th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering

The IEEE EEEIC 2026 conference invites researchers, engineers, and industry professionals to submit original, high-quality research papers addressing current and future challenges in electrical
Conference - CfP
26-10-2026

CHIRA 2026 - 10th International Conference in Computer-Human Interaction Research and Application

The purpose of the International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications (CHIRA) is to bring together professionals, academics, and students interested in advancing
Conference - CfP
07-12-2026

ICST2026 - 19th International Conference on Sensing Technology

Macquarie University will host the ICST2026 - 19th International Conference on Sensing Technology, which will be held from December 7 - 9, 2026, in Sydney, Australia. ICST2026 aims to provide a
IT Community
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Vicente Mayer Mendonça de Lima Garção

Invisibles for Health Monitoring in Chronic Conditions
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Raquel de Almeida Martins

Data fusion of microwaves and ultrasound imaging modalities for improved breast cancer screening
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Luis Diogo Medina Duarte

Concealed target tracking using enhanced radar techniques
WAYN

Where are you now Mariana Ramos?
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Caroline Conti

3D Holoscopic Video Coding
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Ehsan Yaghoubi

Soft biometrics estimation in crowded urban environments
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Orangel José Azuaje Contreras

End-to-End Delay Guarantees in Communication Networks: Bridging the Gap Between Analytical Methods and Experimentation
Podcast

How Cool is Your Science? - Catching up with André Martins

DECOLLAGE will make it possible to advance one step further in overcoming the limitations of current NLP technologies...
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Catarina Alexandra Xavier Belchior

Design Automation of Radio Frequency Power Amplifiers
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