‘A Fantastic experience’ -SICSA Research Scholar, Aleksandr Petrov attended IJCAI in South Korea

  Attending IJCAI in South Korea: A Journey of Research, Culture, and Connection Attending the IJCAI (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence) was a significant step in my research journey. Here’s why I decided to make the trip to Jeju Island, South Korea, and how the experience unfolded. Why I Decided to Attend IJCAI: Winning … Read more

New SICSA Directors

An image of our new SICSA Directors

We are delighted to announce that we have appointed Dr Tristan Henderson, Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews as our new SICSA Graduate Academy (SGA) Director and Dr Aiden Durrant, Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen as Deputy SGA Director. The SICSA Graduate Academy provides training, events, summer schools, conferences and research funding … Read more

SICSA opening doors for open education research

by Vidminas Vizgirda 6 November 2023 For a week in October 2023, I travelled to Edmonton (Amiskwacîwâskahikan in Cree, one of the indigenous languages, meaning “Beaver Hills House”) in Canada to attend the GO-GN 10th anniversary workshop and the Open Education Global 2023 conference. GO-GN (Global OER Graduate Network; Celebrate 10 years of GO-GN! | … Read more

Thank you SICSA for helping me “open the way for future partnerships”

by Nick Louloudakis 23 October 2023 My name is Nick Louloudakis, and I am a 3rd-year Informatics PhD Candidate at the University of Edinburgh. Last September, I had the privilege to present my work, “Fault Localization for Buggy Deep Learning Framework Conversions in Image Recognition” at the 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering … Read more

“it was an unforgettable experience” Read how SICSA research scholarship funding helped support student’s attendance at the CIX23 Summer School

by Songpei XU 12 July 2023 As a senior PhD student at the University of Glasgow, I was delighted to have the opportunity to participate in the Human-Computer Interaction related summer school CIX23 at the University of Michigan in the U.S. It was an unforgettable experience. During the course of my studies, I presented my … Read more

SICSA support to attend CHI 2023

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

New Funding Call for PhD students to attend conferences

With most national and international conferences currently being held on-line due to the pandemic, SICSA is taking the opportunity to open a new funding call which will allow PhD students, currently studying in a SICSA institution, to apply for the cost of the registration fees for a virtual conference. If there is a specific Conference … Read more

SICSA Conference 2020

We are delighted to announce that the SICSA Conference 2020 will take place, on-line on 1 October 2020 and will be under the theme SICSA and the Sustainable Society. The conference this year will be co-located with ScotSoft, which is Scotland’s leading tech conference allowing our delegates to access elements of the event throughout the day. … Read more

SICSA Funding Call Now Open

We are pleased to announce that the Scottish Funding Council has awarded us further funding to continue the Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) research pool until July 2021 We now have a new series of funding calls open with increased support across our research themes with the aim to extend and expand our links with … Read more