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 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

SICSA Research Scholar Funding: Highlights from LREC 2022

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

SICSA Saltire Emerging Research Scheme – Visit at the Research Centre for Information Systems Engineering (LIRIS) in KU Leuven

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

SICSA Saltire Emerging Researcher Scheme – Visit at Bundeswehr University Munich

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

SICSA PECE Funding – Visit at Michigan State University

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