We’re thrilled to share some fantastic news and congratulate Saleem on being selected as one of the recipients of the ICANN Grant Program for his project: “Deployability of ILNP at Global Scale.” The announcement was officially made by ICANN on May 29, 2025, as part of their first-ever cohort of grant recipients. You can read the full announcement … Congratulations to Saleem!
The next PGR seminar is taking place this Friday 30th May at 2PM in JC 1.33a Below are the Titles and Abstracts for Lina and Victor’s talks – Please do come along if you are able. Lina Hadji-Kyriacou Title: Context-PEFT: Efficient Cross-Domain Transfer Learning Abstract: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) techniques such as LoRA, BitFit and IA3 … PGR Seminar – Lina Hadji-Kyriacou + Victor Yuan
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.
We are excited to invite you to a special SACHI seminar this week with Prof Sampsa Hyysalo, who will be visiting us from Aalto University in Finland. This is a great opportunity to hear from one of the leading voices in participatory design and user innovation. 📅 Friday 23rd May | 🕛 15:00 – 16:00 PM … SACHI Seminar – Prof Sampsa Hyysalo: Design Participation | Fri 23 May, 15:00–16:00, JCB 1.33A
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
There will be a Research Software Group Lunchtime Seminar on Friday May 23rd at 1pm, in room 1.33B. Talk Title: “People First: Sustaining Research Software by Sustaining the People Who Build It” Speakers are Software Sustainability Institute Fellows: Deborah Udoh (OLS) and Olexandr Konovalov (St Andrews) – https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/deborah-udoh – https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/olexandr-konovalov Abstract What does it mean to build … Research Software Group Lunchtime Seminar – Friday 23rd May
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
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