SICSA by Noora Alsakar, University of Glasgow 18 May 2023 At the beginning, I would like to thank SICSA for covering my registration fees to attend CHI 2023. I am a second-year PhD student conducting research at the intersection of HCI and privacy in the field of eye tracking. It was my first time attending the … Read more
by Cristina Fiani 02 May 2023 As a first-year PhD student at the University of Glasgow, within the social AI CDT, I was thrilled to have the opportunity to attend for the first time one of the biggest international conferences of human-computer interactions-CHI 2023 in Hamburg-with around 4000 attendees. It was a truly enriching experience … Read more
By Dr Andrei Petrovski, SGA Director 11 April 2023 The SICSA Data Engineering Bootcamp was held on 20 January 2023 in the beautiful ARC Building, University of Glasgow The main intent of the event was to raise awareness amongst members of the SICSA Graduate Academy of the goals, challenges, and tools used by the industry … Read more
Dr Tim Storer, Director of Knowledge Exchange & Impact at the SICSA research pool and Dr Ali McIntosh, Director of SULSA, on a pandemic innovation with growing benefits for research. Initially, the creation of the Coffee Break at RIS was driven by immediate need. At the outset of the pandemic, a lot of the core activity of … Read more
And that’s a wrap – the first cohort of SICSA Education L&T Scholars has now completed the programme! Over the last nine months, 16 L&T-focused colleagues from eight different SICSA member institutions came together to develop scholarship projects and share their teaching practice. Beginning with an online speed networking session, our Scholars then identified a … Read more
12 December 2022, by Jacqueline Borgstedt, University of Glasgow I am Jacqueline Borgstedt and currently I am completing an interdisciplinary PhD with the UKRI CDT for socially intelligent artificial agents at the University of Glasgow. My doctoral research on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) explores how augmenting social robots with haptic modalities affects users’ perception of and … Read more
24 October 2022, by Adil Ibrahim, Heriot-Watt University Hi there! I’m Adil, a PhD student studying at Heriot-Watt University – Edinburgh. My research focuses on binary classification using artificial immune systems, and I use one of the primary immune algorithms, the Negative Selection Algorithm. It has always intrigued me to use artificial immune systems in … Read more
The SICSA Data Science Theme invites proposals to support Data Science research across Scottish Universities to carry out research activities completed by 31 January 2023. We have £2500 to support the following activities: Face-To-Face Event Organization, including workshops and presentations, for funding toward catering or speaker travel (max £500); Online events/Webinars Organization (max £500); Computational … Read more
10 October 2022, by Rob Flood, University of Edinburgh Hi there! I’m Rob, a Ph.D student studying at the University of Edinburgh. As part of my Saltire project, I spent one month in Budapest, Hungary. My research is primarily concerned with synthetic data generation for use in security related analysis. By its very nature, real-world … Read more
SICSA is extremely proud to sponsor the Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge, taking place on the 18th & 19th October 2022 at cyberQuarter, Abertay University, Dundee. The Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge is an annual cyber policy and strategy competition where students from across the globe compete in developing policy recommendations tackling a fictional cyber catastrophe. Now … Read more