Biography:Susana Vinga

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Susana Vinga
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Born
Lisbon, Portugal
Alma materITQB/Univ. Nova de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico
AwardsOlimpíadas Portuguesas de Matemática (1989)

Young Research Award of the Technical University of Lisbon (2010)

Prémio Científico da Universidade de Lisboa/CGD in the area of Computer Science and Engineering (2017 and 2022)
Scientific career
FieldsComputational Biology, Mathematics
InstitutionsINESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico
Websitehttps://sels.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/

Susana Vinga is currently Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico/Universidade de Lisboa (IST/ULisboa)[1] at the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering (DEI) and the Dept. of Bioengineering (DBE). She is a Senior Researcher at INESC-ID[2] in the Information and Decision Support Systems lab. She received a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (1999) and a PhD in Biology/Bioinformatics at ITQB/Univ. Nova de Lisboa (2005). Before this position, she was Principal Investigator (Investigador FCT) at IDMEC.[3]

Publications

Book chapters

Biological sequence analysis by vector-valued functions: revisiting alignment-free methodologies for DNA and protein classification in Advanced Computational Methods for Biocomputing and Bioimaging, T.D. Pham, H. Yan, and D.I. Crane, Editors. Nova Science Publishers, New York. 2007.

Awards

In 1989, Susana was the winner of Olimpíadas Portuguesas de Matemática.[4] In 2010, she was granted the Young Research Award of the Technical University of Lisbon,[5] and in 2017[6] and 2022,[7] she was awarded the Prémio Científico da Universidade de Lisboa/CGD in the area of Computer Science and Engineering for the impact of her publications.

References

  1. ↑ Lisboa, Técnico. "Instituto Superior Técnico" (in en-US). https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/. 
  2. ↑ "Scientific Areas" (in en-US). https://www.inesc-id.pt/research-areas/. 
  3. ↑ "IDMEC | Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica" (in en-US). https://www.idmec.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/. 
  4. ↑ "Olimpíadas Portuguesas de Matemática" (in pt), Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre, 2021-08-17, https://pt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Olimp%C3%ADadas_Portuguesas_de_Matem%C3%A1tica&oldid=61858947, retrieved 2024-01-18 
  5. ↑ "Scholar". https://scholar.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/records/092469fe-3570-48ce-b6ed-fccf1629e006. 
  6. ↑ Lisboa, Técnico (2017-11-13). "Cerimónia de Entrega de Prémios ULisboa’2017" (in pt-PT). https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/pt/eventos/cerimonia-de-entrega-de-premios-ulisboa2017/. 
  7. ↑ mbcastro (2022-11-07). "Cerimónia de Entrega dos Prémios Científicos Universidade de Lisboa/Caixa Geral de Depósitos 2022" (in pt-pt). https://www.ulisboa.pt/evento/cerimonia-de-entrega-dos-premios-cientificos-universidade-de-lisboacaixa-geral-de-depositos-3. 



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