LaSIGE - Large-Scale Informatics Systems Laboratory is a research unit at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisboa.
LaSIGE has approximately 110 collaborators, amongst researchers with a doctoral degree, working toward a Ph.D., or Master students and other junior researchers. The current Director is Prof. Luís Carriço.
The competitive IBM Faculty award, was granted to Alysson Bessani. This prize is awarded to Professors from the best Universities around the world, who are suggested by IBM Research investigators and then assessed internally at the company.
The forthcoming Dagstuhl Seminar (17051), dedicated to the topic Theory and Applications of Behavioural Types, will be co-organised by Vasco Vasconcelos. The organising team it's completed by Simon Gay from the University of Glasgow (GB), Philip Wadler from the University of Edinburgh (GB) and Nobuko Yoshida from the Imperial College London (GB).
The 2nd LaSIGE Workshop will be held in January 18, 2017 and aims at reinforcing the connections among its members and the scientific community.
Various works of its members will be presented during the event, that also count with invited lectures by Prof. Patrick Olivier, founder and leader of the Open Lab research center, and Prof. Luís Caires director of the NOVA LINCS research center.
Francisco Couto presented the talk "Towards a privacy-preserving environment for genomic data analysis" at iMM - Instituto de Medicina Molecular, under the seminars series dedicated to the topic "Computational Biology and Bioinformatics".
