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From Graduate Education to Innovation Challenges

Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program 2006-2017

An Education, Research and Innovation Ecosystem

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Mission: Create new knowledge in key focused areas of information and communications technologies by means of cutting-edge research, world-class graduate education, and a close connection with Portuguese Industry, thus placing Portugal at the forefront of Science and Innovation.

Strategic Areas: Knowledge Creation Talent Development

Instruments:

inRes – Entrepreneurship

in Residence

Dual Degree Programs

Faculty Exchange Program

Entrepreneurial Research Initiatives

Partners:

Research Institutions

Portuguese Universities

Public Organizations and Companies

Carnegie Mellon University

Early Bird Projects

Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program 2

Pioneer in the development of collaboration and partnership models

Innovation

Undergraduate Internships Programs

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+Board of Directors

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João Claro Director Portugal

José M. F. Moura Director at CMU

Miguel Seabra (Chairman) President of the FCT

José Marques dos Santos Former Rector of the Universidade do Porto. Representative of the CRUP

Rogério Carapuça Chairman of Novabase

Subra Suresh President of CMU

James H. Garrett Jr. Dean of the CIT at CMU

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João Paulo Costeira Universidade de Lisboa

João Paulo Cunha Universidade do Porto

Paulo Marques Feedzai

Joana Mendonça Universidade de Lisboa

José Miguel Urbano Universidade de Coimbra

Scientific Directors Team @Portugal and @CMU

Nuno Jardim Nunes Universidade da Madeira

Luís Caires Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Peter Steenkiste Carnegie Mellon University

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+What the Program Is

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An Education, Research

and Innovation Ecosystem

14 Dual Degree

Programs ~300 Dual

Degree Students

> 200 Alumni

17 Undergraduate

Internship Members

> 400 Faculty

Members

~60 Faculty Exchanges

from Portugal to CMU 25

Collaborative Projects

6 Entrepreneurial Research Initiatives

10 Early Bird Projects

Impact in 90 Organizations

Creation of 10 Startups

9 Portuguese inRes Teams

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+ 6 Partners

A variety of forms and purposes for collaboration

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Talent Development

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+Dual Degree Programs

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n  One diploma from a Portuguese University and other from CMU

Professional Masters

Entertainment Technology (MET) - active

Human-Computer Interaction (MHCI) - active

Software Engineering (MSE)

Information Networks (MSIN)

Information Technology – Information Security (MSIT-IS)

Doctoral

Computer Science (CS)

Language Technologies (LT)

Software Engineering (SE)

Robotics (RI)

Information Security (IS)

Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)

Engineering and Public Policy (EPP) Technological Change and Entrepreneurship (TCE) Applied Mathematics (Math)

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+ Internships Opportunities: A Win-Win Process

Jerónimo Rodrigues  (IST-UL and CMU) Google Inc / Qualcomm Innovative Center

Ricardo Cabral (IST-UL and CMU) Industrial Light and Magic / Google

Saurabh Shintre (FEUP and CMU) Cisco Systems

Mate Boban (FEUP and CMU) Apple Inc

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“So I can say that my Ph.D. and internship work was directly used to develop industry products.” Jerónimo Rodrigues, Internship at Google Inc / Qualcomm Innovative Center

“A Win-Win Process to the University, to the Company, and to the Student.” André Martins, Internship at Google

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+Dual Degree Ph.D. Alumni

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João Mota ECE 2012/2013 Postdoctoral Fellow University College London

Carla Costa TCE 2012/2013 Assistant Professor Maastricht University

Alexandre Mateus EPP 2010/2011 Policy Analyst DG Connect, European Commission

André Martins LT 2011/2012 Research Scientist Priberam

Dragana Bajovic ECE 2012/2013 Researcher BioSense Center

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+Undergraduate Internships Program

2014

n  8-12 weeks research experience for talented undergraduates

n  Participation in projects, interaction with research teams, and mentoring from faculty and researchers, at Carnegie Mellon

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17 Undergraduate

Internship Members

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+Faculty Exchange Program

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n  Accelerate the adoption of best practices in research, education and innovation, through cultural immersion at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Universidade"do"Minho"

Universidade"do"Algarve"

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Universidade"Católica"

Universidade"Nova"de"Lisboa"

Universidade"de"Aveiro"

Universidade"da"Madeira"

Universidade"de"Lisboa"

Universidade"do"Porto"

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Research

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+Calls for Collaborative R&D

2008 10 projects

Concluded in 2012-2013

2009 12 projects

Concluded in 2013-2014

2009 - Math 3 projects funded in Applied Mathematics

Joint call with the UT Austin Portugal Program

2013 - ERIs 6 ERIs funded / 21 Proposals

Approximately 6 million Euros for 4 years

2013 - EBPs 10 EBPs funded / 38 Proposals

300 thousand Euros for typically less than a year

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+Industry Involvement in R&D

New solutions for industry problems

SENODs toolset for energy efficiency on datacenters, used by PT

Technology platforms for startups

Feedzai, Dognaedis, Veniam’Works, and Sentilant

Strengthening of product pipelines

VitalResponder for Biodevices

Improvements to existing products

Project Interfaces and the security component of Outsystem’s Enterprise Application Platform

Management and policy insights in ICT

Orange Bird and Patient Innovation Platform

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Proposal PIs Portuguese Institutions

Organizations

AHA: Augmented Human Assistance

Alexandre Bernardino (IST/UL) Daniel P. Siewiorek (HCII)

IST/UL, FMH/UL FCT/UNL M-ITI

Plux Ydreams Robotics

Hyrax: Crowd-Sourcing Mobile Devices to Develop Edge Clouds

Fernando Silva (INESC Porto) Priya Narasimhan (CS/ECE)

INESC Porto FCT/UNL IT

Geolink YinzCam Wavecom

Innovation dynamics in aeronautics and Embraer in Évora

Joana Mendonça (IST/UL) Granger Morgan (EPP)

IST/UL INESC Porto IDMEC

Embraer Portugal CEIIA

INSIDE: Intelligent Networked Robot Systems for Symbiotic Interaction with Children with Impaired Development

Francisco Melo (INESC-ID) Manuela Veloso (CS)

INESC-ID IST/UL FCT/UNL

H. Garcia Orta IDMind PLUX VoiceInteraction

TEIPL: Technology, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy Lab

Pedro Oliveira (UCP) Lee Branstetter (SDS/Heinz)

UCP IMM/UL IST/UL

innosabi Microsoft Novartis

Towards a Mobile Wearable Health Surveillance Product for First Response and other Hazardous Professions

João P. Cunha (INESC Porto) Fernando de la Torre (RI)

INESC Porto IT UA

BioDevices Future Cities Hospital de Gaia Petratex

1st Call for ERIs at a Glance

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+1st Call for ERIs in Numbers

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•  Six proposals were approved for funding, among 21 submitted for evaluation, with a total budget of approximately € 6 million, half in Portugal and half at CMU, for approximately 48 months.

•  Industry participation:

•  > 50 companies participated in the consortia with > 60 participations

•  Level of commitment > 3 million Euros in the 21 proposals

•  > 1 million Euros in the six proposals recommended for funding

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+Project PI in Portugal PI at CMU Partners

AMOS: Algorithms for Massive Online courSes

Mikolas Janota (INESC ID) Edmund Clarke

A Serious Game for Speech Therapy with Visual Bio-feedback

Sofia Maia Cavaco (FCTUNL) Maxine Eskenazi

Hospital Garcia da Orta

BRIDGE - BRinging multimedia Information for cancer Discovery in Gastroenterology Environment

Miguel Tavares Coimbra (IT) Jelena Kovacevic

Bringing Down Language Barriers on the Internet through Human-in-the-Loop Joint Transcription and Translation

Ramón Astudillo (INESC ID) Bhiksha Raj Unbabel

Compliant Robotics Hands with Integrated Soft MEMS Skin (for Medical Prosthesis and Industrial Robotics Applications)

Mahmoud Tavakoli (ISR-UC) Carmel Majidi

Machine Translation For Microblogs Isabel Trancoso (INESC ID)

Alan W. Black / Chris Dyer Unbabel

RSLingo4Privacy – Tools to improve consistency between privacy policies and current practices

Alberto Manuel Silva (INESC ID) Travis Breaux Silicongate

Self-Adaptating NoSQL Stores Luis Eduardo Rodrigues (INESC ID) David Garlan

Statistically Enhanced Mixed-Signal and Analog Design

José Machado da Silva (INESC TEC) Shawn Blanton

Studying the long-term acceptance of personal health informatics tools

Evangelos Karapanos (M-ITI) Jodi Forlizzi

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1st Call for EBPs at a Glance

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Innovation

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+Startups

n  About one hundred highly qualified jobs have already been created by the ten startups born within the Program.

n  In 2013, a tenth startup emerged from the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program – Sentilant, a spinoff from the Universidade de Coimbra.

n  Mambu received in early 2013, 2 million dollars (around 1.5 million euros) from Runa Capital, Point Nine (PNC) and Kizoo (three technology - focused venture capital companies).

n  In early 2013, FeedZai achieved profitability, and added two new U.S. investors, SAP Ventures and Data Collective, as part of a $2.4M investment.

n  Veniam’Works won the first place at the 3rd Edition of Building Global Innovators.

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inRes Very Early Stage Acceleration Program

Entrepreneurial teams in these contexts often lack:

specific competences for the management of early stage technology businesses

mentoring and contacts with potential

advisors

contacts with potential customers, partners, industry experts, and funding

As a consequence, they may develop more slowly

and with inferior performance

Problem Addressed Early stage high-tech new ventures, in particular academic spin-offs, led by less experienced entrepreneurs, often have human and social capital gaps.

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+2014 inRes Edition at a Glance

n  inRes, short for “in Residence,” is a very early stage acceleration program for entrepreneurial teams working in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), in Portugal, offered by the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program.

n  inRes provides entrepreneurial teams a training period in Portugal, followed by an eight-week structured immersion period in Pittsburgh, in the U.S., anchored at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).

n  The participating teams are benefiting from the exposure to a highly dense environment of world-leading research groups, and market and industry specialists, in a variety of high-tech areas.

n  A new edition is expected to be launched in 2015!

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+2014 inRes Teams

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displr Spinoff from University of Minho, technology partially developed in the Program Global service of interactive public screens for which any user can create and publish contents.

Followprice PT’s BlueStart Startup Advanced digital marketing tool which, upon store integration, allows customers to be notified on followed product price changes

Xhockware - youbeep Startup incubated in UPTEC Smartphone-based shopping & checkout solution for retail stores.

AddVolt - WeTruck Startup created by FEUP ECE MSc alumni, incubated in UPTEC Electric portable kit capable of recovering, producing and storing electric energy, applied to cooled freight transport.

14 applications

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+inRes: Structure

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Application & Selection (Portugal)

Until April 30

Call

May, 19

Announce Results

Preparation Phase

(Portugal)

Week of June

Kick-off Meeting

Week of June

Value Proposition

Week of July

Product-Market Fit

Week of Sept.

Partners Immersion Planning

Immersion Phase (U.S.)

Oct. to Nov.

Networking and Business development

Internship at Accelerator

Training Program

Closing Session

(Portugal)

Dec.

Pitching, Business Models, Customer Discovery and Market Research, Practicalities, Basics of Business English

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+inRes Core Team

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Suzi Pegg, Vice President of Global Marketing, Pittsburgh Regional Alliance (PRA)

Dave Mawhinney, Co-Director,   CMU Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE)

Tara Branstad, Associate Director, CMU Center for Technology Transfer and Enterprise Creation (CTTEC)

João Claro, National Director, CMU Portugal Program Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, INESC TEC, and Porto Business School

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+Outreach and Dissemination

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n  Website updated weekly

n  Bimonthly newsletter

n  Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Blog

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Mission: Create new knowledge in key focused areas of information and communications technologies by means of cutting-edge research, world-class graduate education, and a close connection with Portuguese Industry, thus placing Portugal at the forefront of Science and Innovation.

Strategic Areas: Knowledge Creation Talent Development

Instruments:

inRes – Entrepreneurship

in Residence

Dual Degree Programs

Faculty Exchange Program

Entrepreneurial Research Initiatives

Partners:

Research Institutions

Portuguese Universities

Public Organizations and Companies

Carnegie Mellon University

Early Bird Projects

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Pioneer in the development of collaboration and partnership models

Innovation

Undergraduate Internships Programs