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<td>CMU Portugal: News from the Fence #39 | October 2025</td>
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The CMU Portugal Program has<strong>
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2026/2027 academic year </strong>on
cutting-edge areas of <strong>Information
and Communication
Technologies (ICT), </strong>funded
by Fundação para a Ciência e
Tecnologia (FCT).</p>
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Dual Degree Doctoral students
<strong>conduct their studies
both in Portugal</strong> (3
years at a
Portuguese-affiliated
University) and<strong> the
United States </strong>(2
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In 2025, CMU Portugal will
host 12 visiting research
scholars from Portuguese
Institutions to Carnegie
Mellon University (CMU) in the
field of Information and
Communication Technologies
(ICT): <strong>5 faculty
& researchers </strong>and <strong>7
master’s students &
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Portugal student is a “Ph.D.
Rising Research Star” according
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<strong>João Afonso Vilalonga</strong>,
CMU Portugal Affiliated Ph.D.
student in the area of
Computer Science at NOVA
School of Science and
Technology (NOVA FCT) and
researcher at NOVA
LINCS, received the <strong>“Rising
Star Research” 2025 Award</strong> by
the Free and Open
Communications on the Internet
(FOCI) community.</p>
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Portugal project PI awarded with
a prestigious ERC starting Grant</h1>
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<strong>João Ribeiro</strong>,
Assistant Professor at
Instituto Superior Técnico and
researcher at Instituto de
Telecomunicações, was awarded
a European Research Council
(ERC), worth approximately
€1.5 million. The grant will
enable advancing the study of<strong>
</strong>synchronization loss
errors in communications.</p>
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The researcher is currently
leading CMU Portugal's
exploratory research project,<strong> “</strong><strong>Fully-Homomorphic
Encryption from Post-Quantum
Code-Based Assumptions”, </strong>launched
in 2025.</p>
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Central Bank Selects Feedzai to
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<strong>Feedzai, </strong>a
CMU Portugal start-up and
industry-affiliated
partner, was chosen by the
European Central Bank (ECB) t<strong>o safeguard
the digital euro</strong>
with its fraud detection and
prevention mechanism,
coinciding with the week its<strong>
valuation hit the $2 billion
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Portugal members are among
Forbes Portugal’s Most Powerful
Women in Business</h1>
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CMU Portugal faculty members <strong>Irene
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again been featured in Forbes
Portugal’s list of the Most
Powerful Women in Business, in
recognition of their
scientific contributions and
achievements.</p>
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also recognizes <strong>Isabel
Capeloa Gil</strong>, member
of CMU Portugal’s Board of
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