About this episode
Liliana Ferreira, director of Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS, based in Porto, discusses in this podcast the role of the R&D center she heads in transferring technologies that improve people’s quality of life. She highlights Fraunhofer’s connection to the university and the city itself, whose inhabitants she tries to involve in the process of developing products and solutions, in co-creation, and in their respective testing, through the Colaborar network, which includes around a thousand people, and the institutions with which it collaborates.
Liliana also mentions Fraunhofer’s membership in the Center for Responsible AI initiative, with other partners interested in a humanistic evolution of this technology.
About the guest
Liliana Ferreira is Director of Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Informatics at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto.
An expert in areas such as natural language processing, medical informatics, and knowledge representation, she has conducted significant research at institutions including Philips Research and the Fraunhofer Center in Portugal.
