SICSA Research Scholar: Netherland’s Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) 25 August – 31 August 2022

5 September 2022, by Dr Juraj Sikra, University of Strathclyde “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” Wittgenstein On my way to Amsterdam, I was thinking what the research into improving cybercrime reporting really needs. I thought that to do research that convinces the government to take cybercrime more seriously, I … Read more

SICSA Research Scholar Funding: Vision and Sports Summer School, Czech Technical University

24 August 2022, by Dorian Gouzou, Heriot-Watt University Hi, I’m Dorian, a PhD student at Heriot-Watt University studying machine learning applied to medical imaging. I am (already) finishing my second year and realised that I spent my PhD learning about the different imaging modality I work with, and experimenting basic machine learning on it, which … Read more

SICSA Saltire Emerging Researcher Scheme – Visit at the University of Edinburgh

19 August 2022, by Adrián Javaloy, University of Saarland, Germany Hi, I am Adrián, a third-year PhD Student at the University of Saarland, Germany. While Machine Learning has become ubiquitous to our society, often times these systems struggle when presented with data coming from different sources (for example, images and their respective captions). My research … Read more

SICSA Saltire Emerging Researcher Scheme – Visit at Utrecht University

16 August 2022, by Tudor Ferariu, University of Edinburgh Hello, my name is Tudor Ferariu and I am a first-year PhD Student at the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. My research topic is automating formal verification for smart contracts for the Cardano blockchain. Proving the absence of bugs is very expensive, and large sums … Read more

SICSA Saltire Emerging Research Scheme – Visit at the Faculty of Informatics, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary.

16 August 2022, by Jaspreet Kaur, University of Glasgow I am Jaspreet kaur, a 2nd year PhD student at the University of Glasgow, James Watt School of Engineering. My research interest is exploiting location and geographical information for adaptive beam forming (a 5G and beyond technology) for transport systems. Currently, I am modelling some buildings … Read more

SICSA Conference 2022

Sustainability, Resilience and Recovery On the 28th & 29th June 2022 we held our 13th Annual SICSA Conference at Glasgow Caledonian University. This was our first in person event since 2019, with an exciting programme of keynote talks, panel sessions, poster and PhD competitions. The Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) Conference has been … Read more

SICSA Research Scholar Funding: Highlights from ACACES 2022

25 July 2022, by Jude Haris, University of Glasgow Hello, I am Jude Haris. I am a second-year PhD at the University of Glasgow in the School of Computing. My research interests are Computer Architecture, FPGAs and DNN accelerators. Thanks to SICSA Research Scholar Funding I was able to attend HiPEAC’s ACACES summer school, 10-16th … Read more

SICSA Saltire Emerging Researcher Scheme – Visit at the University of Pisa

21 July 2022, by Juraj Sikra, University Strathclyde “The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.” Bertrand Russell The aim of my visit was to work on developing a research comparison between the cybercrime reporting situation in Scotland vs. Italy. My application as a visiting researcher was accepted by Prof Stefano Chessa from the … Read more