Winner of Santa Casa Challange - Social Technology, research leader, Lisbon, December 2016.

One of the 30 finalists (out of 1095 candidates) - 2016 European Social Innovation Competition Diogo Vasconcelos, research leader, European Union, June 2016 with the application "WeDoCare".

Young Scientist Award to his PhD student David Nunes with the paper: "D. Nunes, P. Carmona D. Raposo, D. Silva, C. Herrera e J. Sa Silva, "Happy Hour - Improving Mood With An Emotionally Aware Application", 15th International Conference on Innovations for Community Services (I4CS 2015), July 2015, Nuremberg (Germany)."

National Prize of Computer Science awarded by the Portuguese Licensed Engineers for being selected as the best report of admission 1999-2000.

Honorable Mention, “Father in Womb”, in the competition “Sentient Future Competition” in the context of “Embedded WiSeNts - Project FP6-004400”, January 2006.

One of the four finalists - Altran awards, "LowCost solution for water monitoring in developing countries", November 2012.

Best paper award, "On the effectiveness of end-to-end security for Internet-integrated sensing applications", iThings 2012 - The IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things, November 2012, Bezançon (France).

3rd position, Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge 2014, with the master thesis "SmartGuia: Shopping Assistant for Blind People“ by the student Karen Duarte co-oriented by Prof. Pedro Furtado and Prof. Jorge Sá Silva.