Spotlight on #WomenInELLIS on Isabel Trancoso, Professor at INESC-ID, IST and University of Lisboa, with photo of Isabel
April 9th, 2025

Spotlight on Isabel Trancoso

#WomenInELLIS
Get to know Isabel Trancoso, Professor in Lisbon at INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) and the University of Lisbon 🇵🇹

She’s an ELLIS Fellow and member of the ELLIS Unit Lisbon.

Her area of research is speech processing and in 2024 she was the recipient of the ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement, a particularly meaningful highlight of her whole career.

Instead of advice, she directs you to check out the testimonials of Girls in AI@Tecnico at https://tinyurl.com/GirlsInAI. She says, “There are endless career opportunities in AI and many application areas of high societal impact which should inspire more girls to to choose these highly interdisciplinary areas.”

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