The next PGR seminar is taking place this Friday 23rd May at 2PM in JC 1.33a Below are the Titles and Abstracts for Thomas and Charis’ talks – Please do come along if you are able. Thomas Martin Title: From Isolated to Continuous Automated Sign Language Recognition Abstract: Sign languages are full-fledged visual natural languages … PGR Seminar with Thomas Martin + Charis Hanna
Congratulations to Bailey, who has successfully defended his PhD thesis with minor corrections. Bailey was supervised by Dr Blesson Varghese. Thanks to Dr Yehia Elkhatib from the University of Glasgow, who was the external examiner, and Dr Peter Macgregor from our School, who was the internal examiner.
The next PGR seminar is taking place this Friday 16th May at 2PM in JC 1.33a Below are the Titles and Abstracts for Tilcia and Thu’s talks – Please do come along if you are able. Tilcia Woodville-price Title: Definitely, Maybe? Communicating Uncertainty In Medicine Abstract: An inherent aspect of healthcare and data science alike, … PGR Seminar with Tilcia Woodville-price + Thu Nguyen
The next PGR seminar is taking place this Friday 9th May at 2PM in JC 1.33a Below are the Titles and Abstracts for Duong and Tom’s talks – Please do come along if you are able. Duong Phuc Tai Nguyen Title: Enhancing Dynamic Algorithm Configuration via Theory-guided Benchmarks. Abstract: Algorithms play a vital role in numerous … PGR Seminar with Duong Phuc Tai Nguyen + Thomas Metcalfe
The next PGR seminar is taking place this Friday 2nd May at 2PM in JC 1.33a Below are the Titles and Abstracts for Gen and Jess’ talks – Please do come along if you are able. Gen Li Title: Visualization of clinical pathways based on sepsis comorbidities Abstract: Sepsis is a severe infectious syndrome that can … PGR Seminar with Gen Li + Jess McGowan
On behalf of the school, we would like to congratulate Muhammad Hassan supervised by Prof Tom Kelsey and Dr Lei Fang, who has passed their PhD viva with typographical corrections. Thanks to Dr Michael Young who was internal examiner and Prof Kristina Yordanova from University of Greifswald as external examiner. Many congratulations to Muhammad!
The next PGR seminar is taking place this Friday 25th April at 2PM in JC 1.33a Below are the Title and Abstract for Dhananjay’s talk – Please do come along if you are able. Title: Signal Collapse in One-Shot Pruning: When Sparse Models Fail to Distinguish Neural Representations Abstract: The deep learning breakthrough in 2012, … PGR Seminar with Dhananjay Saikumar
The next PGR seminar is taking place this Friday 11th April at 2PM in JC 1.33a Below are the Titles and Abstracts for Leonid and Xinya’s talks – Please do come along if you are able. Leonid Nosovitsky Title: Bridging Theory and Practice: Advancing Multiparty Session Types for Industry Use Abstract: Multiparty Session Types (MPST) … PGR Seminar with Leonid Nosovitsky + Xinya Gong
The next PGR seminar is taking place this Friday 4th April at 2PM in JC 1.33a Below are the Titles and Abstracts for Zihan and Berné’s talks – Please do come along if you are able. Zihan Zhang Title: FedOptima: Optimizing Resource Utilization in Federated Learning Abstract: Federated learning (FL) systems facilitate distributed machine learning … PGR Seminar with Zihan Zhang + Berné Nortier
This years Distinguished Lecture series was delivered yesterday ( Tuesday 1st April) by Professor Arthur Zimek, University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark. In his talk on, ‘Data Mining and the “Curse of Dimensionality”’ he considered the challenges of the “curse” from the perspective of data mining. In Talk 1, he discussed the “curse” in … Distinguished Lecture Series 2025