19 August 2022,
by Adrián Javaloy, University of Saarland, Germany
Hi, I am Adrián, a third-year PhD Student at the University of Saarland, Germany. While Machine Learning has become ubiquitous to our society, often times these systems struggle when presented with data coming from different sources (for example, images and their respective captions). My research therefore focuses ...
Read more16 August 2022,
by Tudor Ferariu, University of Edinburgh
Hello, my name is Tudor Ferariu and I am a first-year PhD Student at the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. My research topic is automating formal verification for smart contracts for the Cardano blockchain. Proving the absence of bugs is very expensive, and large sums of money ...
Read more16 August 2022,
by Jaspreet Kaur, University of Glasgow
I am Jaspreet kaur, a 2nd year PhD student at the University of Glasgow, James Watt School of Engineering. My research interest is exploiting location and geographical information for adaptive beam forming (a 5G and beyond technology) for transport systems. Currently, I am modelling some buildings and areas ...
Read more25 July 2022,
by Jude Haris, University of Glasgow
Hello, I am Jude Haris. I am a second-year PhD at the University of Glasgow in the School of Computing. My research interests are Computer Architecture, FPGAs and DNN accelerators. Thanks to SICSA Research Scholar Funding I was able to attend HiPEAC’s ACACES summer school, 10-16th of July.
The ...
Read more21 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 Department of Informatics ...
Read more18 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 of tasks ...
Read more12 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 weather and ...
Read more2 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 occurs every ...
Read more8 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 Emerging Research Scheme, ...
Read more14 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 remote VR ...
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