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SACHI Seminar with Aluna Everitt – Democratising the Design and Development of Emerging Technologies

We are pleased to share our upcoming SACHI research seminar by Dr Aluna Everitt, a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand: 📅 Today | 🕛 12:00 – 1:00 PM | 📍 JCB, Room 1.33B Title: Democratising the Design and Development of Emerging Technologies Abstract: SACHI Seminar with Aluna Everitt – Democratising the Design and Development of Emerging Technologies

PGR Seminar with Mirza Hossain

The next PGR seminar is taking place this Friday 14th March at 2PM in JC 1.33a Below are the Title and Abstract for Mirza’s talk – Please do come along if you are able. Title: BioFuse: Optimizing Biomedical Embeddings with Foundation Models Abstract: Pre-trained foundation models have revolutionized biomedical AI, excelling in specialized domains like PGR Seminar with Mirza Hossain

PhD student project showcase in CyberASAPY8 Demo Day

A group of PhD students: Yaxiong Lei and Zihang Zhang, in our school have been awarded a CyberASAP project. This is funded by the Department of Science, Innovation, and Technology (DSIT) and organised by InnovateUK. CyberASAP aims to fund innovative cybersecurity solutions from academics. Their project, LockEyeGaze, confronts the cybersecurity challenge of sophisticated computer vision PhD student project showcase in CyberASAPY8 Demo Day

PGR Seminar with Sharon Pisani

The next PGR seminar is taking place this Friday 21st February at 2PM in JC 1.33a Below is a Title and Abstract for Sharon’s talk – Please do come along if you are able. Title: Digital Cultural Landscapes for Sustainable Development in Remote and Island Communities Abstract: Heritage plays a crucial role in community identity PGR Seminar with Sharon Pisani

Seminar, Nobuko Yoshida, Monday 3rd February

Prof. Nobuko Yoshida of Oxford University is visiting us next Monday (3 February). Nobuko has kindly agreed to give a talk on her work during her visit. The talk will be at 1pm in JC1.33a. Nobuko Yoshida, University of Oxford, UK https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/nobuko.yoshida/ Title Multiparty Session Types: Separation and Encodability Results Abstract Multiparty session types (MPST) Seminar, Nobuko Yoshida, Monday 3rd February

PGR Poster Session

The School held a successful PGR Poster Session on Monday 27th January, which was very well attended. The posters displayed were impressive and well presented by the PGR students. Well done to all who attended and took part! 👏

PhD Viva Success: Thomas Hansen

On behalf of the School, we would like to congratulate Thomas Hansen supervised by Dr Edwin Brady who has successfully defended his thesis. Thanks to Dr Adam Barwell who was internal examiner and Dr Jeremy Yallop from University of Cambridge as external examiner. Many congratulations to Thomas! 🎉  

Professor Stephen Linton Retirement

Colleagues from the University, past and present, gathered to say a fond farewell to Professor Stephen Linton who is retiring from the School at the end of 2024. Steve was a valuable and respected member of staff for 31 years and also a former Head of School and Director of CIRCA. Steve was fundamental in Professor Stephen Linton Retirement