12 December 2022, by Jacqueline Borgstedt, University of Glasgow I am Jacqueline Borgstedt and currently I am completing an interdisciplinary PhD with the UKRI CDT for socially intelligent artificial agents at the University of Glasgow. My doctoral research on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) explores how augmenting social robots with haptic modalities affects users’ perception of and … Read more
24 October 2022, by Adil Ibrahim, Heriot-Watt University Hi there! I’m Adil, a PhD student studying at Heriot-Watt University – Edinburgh. My research focuses on binary classification using artificial immune systems, and I use one of the primary immune algorithms, the Negative Selection Algorithm. It has always intrigued me to use artificial immune systems in … Read more
The SICSA Data Science Theme invites proposals to support Data Science research across Scottish Universities to carry out research activities completed by 31 January 2023. We have £2500 to support the following activities: Face-To-Face Event Organization, including workshops and presentations, for funding toward catering or speaker travel (max £500); Online events/Webinars Organization (max £500); Computational … Read more
10 October 2022, by Rob Flood, University of Edinburgh Hi there! I’m Rob, a Ph.D student studying at the University of Edinburgh. As part of my Saltire project, I spent one month in Budapest, Hungary. My research is primarily concerned with synthetic data generation for use in security related analysis. By its very nature, real-world … Read more
SICSA is extremely proud to sponsor the Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge, taking place on the 18th & 19th October 2022 at cyberQuarter, Abertay University, Dundee. The Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge is an annual cyber policy and strategy competition where students from across the globe compete in developing policy recommendations tackling a fictional cyber catastrophe. Now … Read more
30 September 2022, by Lito Michala, University of Glasgow I am Dr Lito Michala and I am an early career researcher who works as a lecturer at the School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. For my visit I chose to travel to Greece to ICS-FORTH and particularly the Computer Architecture and VLSI Systems Laboratory … Read more
27 September 2022, by Maximilian Häring, University of Bonn Do you trust the persons writing the software you use not to have malicious intent? Or the company they work for? The answer is probably „yes“ for most software. How do you judge that? Modern software is built with many software packages from other developers. So, … Read more
27 September 2022, by Eva Gerlitz, University of Bonn Hi! I am Eva, a Ph.D. student at the University of Bonn, and I spent the last one and a half months in Glasgow. My research interests lie in the field of usable security, especially concerning authentication and expert users, such as developers and administrators. I … Read more
Professor Vincenzo Vespri, from The University of Florence is visiting Stirling University as SICSA Distinguished Visiting Fellow. He has kindly offered to give the series of seminars below. He will be in Stirling from Sept.19th to Sept. 30th, happy to meet interested colleagues- short bio sketch below. ———————————— IOTA, the blockchain of the near future? … Read more
13 September 2022, by Isa Inuwa-Dutse from the University of Hertfordshire, and Salma ElSayed from Abertay University Introduction/Overview Crowdsourcing involves the act of engaging a wide collection of diverse individuals to work on a paid or voluntary activity submitted by requesters. The individuals or participant are not constraints by geographical location. Prolific is an online … Read more