On May 6, Luís Miguel Maia Bravo da Mata successfully defended his thesis, A Causal AI Framework for Enhanced Efficiency Towards Sustainable Wireless Networks, supervised by Professors Pedro Manuel de Almeida Carvalho Vieira, Maria Paula dos Santos Queluz Rodrigues, and António José Castelo Branco Rodrigues. The defense took place in the PA-3 amphitheater, in the Mathematics building.

The jury was chaired by Dr. Luís Manuel de Jesus Sousa Correia, Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, and included Dr. Adão Paulo Soares da Silva, Associate Professor at the University of Aveiro; Dr. Francisco António Bucho Cercas, Full Professor at ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon; Dr. Mário Alexandre Teles de Figueiredo, Full Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon; Dr. Marko Beko, Associate Professor with Habilitation at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon; Dr. António Manuel Raminhos Cordeiro Grilo, Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon; and Dr. Pedro Manuel de Almeida Carvalho Vieira, Coordinating Professor with Habilitation at the Lisbon Institute of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon.