A short update from SICSA…… Due to the current situation with the COVID-19 outbreak all forthcoming SICSA sponsored events have been postponed. Event details continue to be displayed on our web-site and we will obviously update these as and when the circumstances change. If you are thinking of organising an event or workshop for the … Read more
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
Post-doctoral and Early Career Exchanges Bursary (PECE) SICSA is able to provide bursaries of up to £7,500 for researchers in Informatics and Computing Sciences at SICSA institutions to take part in researcher visits to Europe, North America, China and India. PECE bursaries provide research training and development opportunities for the most able postdocs and early … Read more
Director of SICSA Applications are invited from any suitable member of academic staff within a SICSA Institution for the role of Director of SICSA. Job Purpose SICSA is the Scottish Funding Council Research Pool in Informatics and Computer Science. The goal of SICSA is to cohere the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science research communities to … Read more
Earlier this month, I took over as SICSA Director of Education from Dr Rachel Menzies, who has served in this capacity over the last two years. First off, I would like to thank Rachel for all her hard work, and I look forward to serving the community in this role. I am currently a Senior … Read more
SICSA is saying farewell to its Director, Professor Aaron Quigley, University of St Andrews who has been appointed to the position of Head of School of Computing Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Aaron has been a huge supporter of the Scottish Informatics & Computing Science Alliance (SICSA) over the … Read more
SICSA extends a warm welcome to Dr Christian Dondrup, Heriot Watt University who takes over co-leadership of the SICSA Cyber Physical Systems research theme this month. Along with Dr Subramanian Ramamoorthy, University of Edinburgh Christian will be responsible for shaping and directing the research theme as well as providing a national representation for their theme area. … Read more
We are very pleased to welcome Dr Mark Zarb, Robert Gordon University to SICSA as our new Director of Education, effective from 1 January 2020. Mark will be a great addition to the SICSA Directorate. He has had continuous engagement with SICSA through a number of avenues and has great vision for education within the … Read more
by Èric Pairet, Heriot Watt University 25 November 2019 Last week, I attended the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) organised by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ). IROS is one of the top conferences world-wide were scientists gather to present and discuss the state-of-the-art … Read more
Applications are invited for any suitable member of academic staff within a SICSA Institution to co-lead the SICSA Cyber Physical Systems Research Theme. Research pooling across Scotland is entering an exciting phase. Having recently released the review of pooling, the SFC are considering a number of recommendations which present opportunities for someone interested in this … Read more