GAIPS Lab

Group of AI for People and Society (GAIPS) is a Portuguese research group dedicated to advanced research on Artificial Intelligence over 6 main areas: Affective Computing, Games, Human-Robot Interaction, Intelligent Virtual Agents, Social Simulations and Machine Learning. GAIPS was founded in 2000 by Professor Ana Paiva, a full professor of Computer Science and Engineering department of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) as part of University of Lisbon. The group is associated to INESC-ID and Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). Since its foundation GAIPS has been awarded several EU and Portuguese grants and projects including LIREC, EMOTE, ANIMATAS, TAILOR, and HumanE-AI-Net. The lab is currently located in IST Taguspark campus and hosts 10 professors, 4 post-docs, and 32 PhD students and researchers.