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

18 July 2022, by Andrew Murray, University of Strathclyde Hi, I’m Andrew a 2nd year PhD student at the University of Strathclyde. My research interests are Optimisation, Planning and Scheduling and Explainable AI and my PhD work involves a combination of all of these technologies.  As an example, consider you have to perform a number … Read more

12 July 2022, by Chris Xiaoxuan Lu, University of Edinburgh Hi, I am Chris, a lecturer in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. My research broadly studies Cyber Physical Systems and Mobile Robotics, with a focus on unleashing their promise in challenging but critical environments, such as search and rescue, autonomous driving in bad … Read more

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

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

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

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

27 May 2022, by Theo Stouraitis, University of Edinburgh My name is Theo, I am a research associate at the Statistical Machine Learning and Motor Control (SLMC) group at the University of Edinburgh (UoE). At the beginning of April, I returned back to Scotland, UK after a three-month research visit at the Interactive Robotics Group … Read more

10 May 2022 by Matthew Barr, SICSA Director of Education Congratulations to our newly-selected SICSA Education Learning & Teaching Scholars! We received a lot of applications, and, inevitably, we couldn’t accommodate everyone. However, we hope to be able to run the programme again next year, if funding allows. Our 16 Scholars will now embark on … Read more