SICSA Research Scholar funding supported PhD student, Andrew, to attend the SoRAIM Winter School in France this month.

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By Andrew Blair 29 February 2024           My name is Andrew Blair, and I am a first year PhD Student in Computing Science at the University of Glasgow. My research seeks to explore how we can facilitate human-robot interaction through dialogue in public spaces. More specifically, I seek to overcome the … Read more

With SICSA Research Scholar funding, PhD Student Bilyana, joined a Research Workshop collaboration on the theme of content in Berlin.

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By Bilyana Palankasova 21 February 2024                 During the last days of January and the first week of February 2024, I had the absolute pleasure of starting off my year by participating in the annual research workshop organised by the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image … Read more

SICSA PhD Conference 2024

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Our 2024 SICSA PhD Conference will run from 9th to 11th of July this year at the University of Aberdeen. If you are a PhD student, please complete our Workshop Topics form to help us choose the most relevant workshops and key speakers for you. You can also join our organising committee. We look forward … Read more

‘It has been invaluable in my academic journey’, With SICSA Research Scholar funding, Jiawei attended and presented at HICSS in Hawaii.

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By Jiawei Zheng 6 February 2024                 I am a final year PhD student from School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. I was delighted to share and present my work on Alignment-based Conformance Checking over Probabilistic Events in 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) from the … Read more

‘The visit allowed me to contribute to future best practice standards in DEM, perfectly aligning with my research.’ Read about SICSA student’s visit to SWGDE in Boulder, Colorado.

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By Belinda Onyeashie 19 January 2024 Background I am a second-year digital forensics PhD candidate at Edinburgh Napier University. My research focuses on improving digital evidence management (DEM) to provide reliable evidence trails and timelines for law enforcement. I was thrilled when my request to attend the SWGDE meeting was approved. The mission of the … Read more

‘EMNLP provided a platform to showcase our research and initiated valuable interactions’. Our most recent Research Scholar describes their trip to EMNLP 2023.

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By Yifu Qiu 15th January 2024 As a current Ph.D. candidate in Natural Language Processing at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Informatics, I am pleased to share my recent engagement with the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023) held in Singapore. About the Conference EMNLP stands as a flagship … Read more

‘The conference was thrilling…’, Read more about SICSA Research Scholar funded student’s experience at NeurlPS2023 in New Orleans

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By Lorenzo Loconte 4 January 2024 I am a PhD student researching Machine Learning at the University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics. This year, I was delighted to hear the news that one of my papers had been accepted as an oral presentation at the 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023) in … Read more

‘An enriching experience…’ With SICSA funding, student attended the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Conference on Genome Informatics

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By Yuelin Yao 14 December 2023 I am a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics. My recent visit to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Conference on Genome Informatics during 6th to 9th December 2023, was an enriching experience that expanded my horizons in the realm of state-of-the-art computational approaches that are … Read more

SICSA funding allowed student to attend the 14th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing in Santa Cruz, USA

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By Tong Xing 16 November 2023 As a third-year PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, I recently had the chance of participating in the 14th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing in Santa Cruz, USA. This event proved to be an extraordinary journey, filled with learning and networking opportunities. Presenting My Research  One of the … Read more

SICSA Supporting the Launch of the Edinburgh University School of Informatics Computer Science Education Group

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By Cristina Adriana Alexandru and Felipe Costa Sperb 14 November 2024 On the 4th of October 2023, a team of academics from the University of Edinburgh, led by Felipe Costa Sperb and Cristina Adriana Alexandru, launched the School of Informatics Computer Science Education (CSE) Group. This event, sponsored and endorsed by SICSA, aimed to enhance … Read more