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by Noora Alsakar, University of Glasgow 18 May 2023 At the beginning, I would like to thank SICSA for covering my registration fees to attend CHI 2023. I am a second-year PhD student conducting research at the intersection of HCI and privacy in the field of eye tracking. It was my first time attending the conference, and ...

by Cristina Fiani 02 May 2023 As a first-year PhD student at the University of Glasgow, within the social AI CDT, I was thrilled to have the opportunity to attend for the first time one of the biggest international conferences of human-computer interactions-CHI 2023 in Hamburg-with around 4000 attendees. It was a truly enriching experience that I ...

By Dr Andrei Petrovski, SGA Director 11 April 2023 The SICSA Data Engineering Bootcamp was held on 20 January 2023 in the beautiful ARC Building, University of Glasgow The main intent of the event was to raise awareness amongst members of the SICSA Graduate Academy of the goals, challenges, and tools used by the industry in designing, building ...

And that’s a wrap – the first cohort of SICSA Education L&T Scholars has now completed the programme! Over the last nine months, 16 L&T-focused colleagues from eight different SICSA member institutions came together to develop scholarship projects and share their teaching practice. Beginning with an online speed networking session, our Scholars then identified a number of ...

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 relationship with ...

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 data classification. ...

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 security data is ...

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 (CARV). My ...

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, the same ...

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 find authentication interesting, ...