GAIPS Lab

✨ Diogo Carvalho and Pedro Santos represented GAIPS at @iclr_conf 🇧🇷 🔗 Read their papers in the link in our bio! Great to see GAIPS research featured at one of the top AI conferences! 🚀 #MachineLearning #ReinforcementLearning #AIResearch

📢 Join us April 29 (Wed) at 11:00 (Lisbon) for a GAIPS talk by Dr. Micaela Fonseca (HEI-Lab, Universidade Lusófona) for a talk on games, well-being and interactive media 🎮 📍 IST Taguspark (Room 1-38)

✨ Don't miss the first GAIPS news from 2026! Read our Trimonthly Digest with updated from January to March of 2026 is out now ! 🔗 Read it here: canva.link/8g5h4eqy50tdqso

🤖 GAIPS is at #HRI2026 in Edinburgh! 📄 Papers in proceedings → Joana Brito (with Joana Campos and Ana Paiva), Rui Prada 🛠️ D-TUR Workshop → Sandra Andrade, presenting the ERROR-MM Project Check our Link in Bio to read these articles🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

🎉 New paper accepted! GAIPS members Regina Duarte and her peers address how AI and XAI shape real clinical decision-making! Great work by Mónica Abreu, Joana Campos & our Hospital da Luz partners! 📄 dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114…

Here’s Pedro at yet another international conference! 🙌✨ GAIPS member Pedro P. Santos presented “Centralized training with hybrid execution in multi-agent reinforcement learning via predictive observation imputation” at #AAAI2026, Singapore 🇸🇬 📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.arti…

✨ The GAIPS Trimonthly Digest from October to December of 2025 is out now ! Don't miss the chance to discover the latest GAIPS news from the end of last year! 🔗 Read it in full in here: tr.ee/XLCGb8K5Bk

This week we are inviting you to join in on our bi-weekly group meeting for a special talk by Prof. Miguel Couceiro where he will present results from his upcoming AAAI 2026 paper.

GAIPS researchers Henrique Fonseca & António Fernandes explore whether media can act as a soft regulator for safe AI, using game theory. Presented at #ALIFE2025 after the 2025 AI Governance Modelling Workshop at Teesside University. 🔗Paper: direct.mit.edu/isal/proceedin…

Level up! 🎮✨ GAIPS member Miguel Belbute spent the day teaching 3rd-graders the basics of game design and development — and it was awesome! 👾💡 Part of “Engenharia para Todos”, promoting scientific & tech literacy in Oeiras. 🚀💛

Last month, GAIPS member @diogosscarvalho presented this paper at EPIA 2025! You can read the work here: rdcu.be/eNUsT

Excited to have contributed to the OECD’s AI & Future of Skills project! 🚀 We helped develop the Social Interaction scale, measuring AI’s ability to perceive & respond to social cues—a key step toward understanding social intelligence in robots and AI. #AI #SocialIntelligence

❗ Small update to the time ❗ This presentation will start at 🚨 10:30AM! 🚨 Join us in person or via Zoom: videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/98399572924?… See you there!

Here’s some photos of GAIPS member @ppspedrosantos presenting his work on ICML 2025 in Vancouver and EWRL 2025 in Tübingen, Germany. His poster was selected as a "spotlight poster" (top 2.6% of the papers)! 🙌 Read his work here: icml.cc/virtual/2025/p…

📢 Join us Mon (Oct 6) at 11:00 (Lisbon) for a GAIPS talk by Dr. Astrid Rosenthal-von der Pütten (RWTH Aachen): Robots in Teams & Conflict. How can robots detect, face, or mediate group conflicts? 📍 IST Taguspark R1-38 | 🔗 Zoom here: videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/98399572924?…

This collaboration will be presented this week at the EPIA 2025 international conference on Artificial Intelligence. Read this work here: link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

New publication! 📖 Visiting student Victor Pugliese collaborated with GAIPS members Diogo Carvalho, Fábio Faria and Francisco Melo on a paper titled “Optimizing 2D Packing Strategies for Autoclave Loading Using Deep Reinforcement Learning”

✨ The Trimonthly Digest is out with the latest GAIPS news from July to September 2025 Read it here: tr.ee/nogqZhlmXr

Make sure not to miss Anna’s insightful talks on these upcoming events!

We welcome our newest senior researcher at GAIPS, Dr @AnnaCiaunica ! She will be attending ALife 2025 and Tech for Impact Summit 2025, and she will be making an appearance at Tufts University and on the 6th International Workshop on Active Inference! Take a look at her schedule: