SICSA 2 July 2022, by Lucy Havens, University of Edinburgh At the end of June, I finally was able to attend a conference in person as a Ph.D. student: LREC! I’m grateful to SICSA, EFI, and the Informatics Graduate School for making it possible for me to attend LREC in person this year, because it only … Read more
8 July 2022, by Rui Ying, University of Edinburgh Hi, I am Rui Ying! I am a third-year PhD student at the University of Edinburgh Business School. My research interest is in financial modelling for Open Banking, where I drill down into individuals’ cash flow transactions to assess personal financial risks. Under the SICSA’s Saltire … Read more
14 June 2022, by Florian Mathis, University of Glasgow “Hoi!”, I’m Florian, a joint PhD candidate at the University of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh. My research interests are at the intersection of Human-computer Interaction (HCI), Usable Security, and Virtual Reality (VR). Specifically, I propose, evaluate, and provide first evidence of the suitability of … Read more
31 May 2022, by Sarah Thomson, University of Stirling I’m Sarah, and I’m a research fellow at the University of Stirling. In 2 days, I will become a lecturer there. At Stirling, I’m part of the Data Science and Intelligent Systems Research Group and my specialty is evolutionary computation (EC) – algorithmic approaches to optimisation … Read more
27 May 2022, by Theo Stouraitis, University of Edinburgh My name is Theo, I am a research associate at the Statistical Machine Learning and Motor Control (SLMC) group at the University of Edinburgh (UoE). At the beginning of April, I returned back to Scotland, UK after a three-month research visit at the Interactive Robotics Group … Read more
The Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) welcomes the publication of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework results. The THE world university rankings table for the UK has also been recalculated on the basis of the 2021 REF and is published today. For SICSA institutions: 45% of research was world-leading (4*) and 43% internationally excellent … Read more
10 May 2022 by Matthew Barr, SICSA Director of Education Congratulations to our newly-selected SICSA Education Learning & Teaching Scholars! We received a lot of applications, and, inevitably, we couldn’t accommodate everyone. However, we hope to be able to run the programme again next year, if funding allows. Our 16 Scholars will now embark on … Read more
6 May 2022 by Dr Mireilla Bikanga Ada, SICSA Education Champion and SICSA Education Distinguished Speaker Seminar organiser at UofG. The School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow held a SICSA Education Distinguished Speaker Seminar on 30th March 2022. The event was organised by the University’s SICSA Education Champion, Dr Mireilla Bikanga Ada. … Read more
As part of the SICSA Conference in the last two years, we have established the SICSA PhD Award for Best Dissertation in Scotland, inviting submissions from our vibrant research student community in order to celebrate ground-breaking research across Scottish Institutions. Chris Cummings (University of Edinburgh) was the winner in 2020 and Ryan Gibson (University of … Read more
We had a fantastic response to the SICSA Data Science Research Theme – Call for Research Grants. The call is now closed. Thank you to those who submitted applications, we will be in contact with your shortly to let you know the outcome of your application The SICSA Data Science Theme invites proposals to support … Read more