Title: Phylogenetic Trees, Networks and Squirrels Speaker: Mark Jones (Middlesex University, London) April 16, 2026. Thursday. 3PM. TG23. Abstract: Phylogenetic trees and networks are directed graphs representing the evolutionary histories of animals/plants/viruses/etc. Reconstructing these histories is a huge interdisciplinary project combining biology, statistics, algebra, graph theory, algorithm design and software engineering (and probably others). It […]
Author: Can Baskent
Title: Women in IT: Research from Germany and Bangladesh Speaker: Andreea Molnar (Swinburne University of Technology) March 17, 2026. 3PM. Room TG23. Abstract: Despite a growing number of initiatives aimed at increasing diversity in IT degree programs, women remain significantly underrepresented. Moreover, even when women do enroll, they tend to leave these programs at higher […]
February 18th, 2026, Wednesday, 3PM. Room TG23. Speaker: Elisabeth Fink. Title: AI for Science: From Accelerating Materials Discovery to Stress-Testing Post-Quantum Cryptography Abstract: Applications of AI have become widespread and the UK has defined “AI for Science” as a national strategy. Within this, the UK aims at becoming a leader specifically in scientific applications of […]
December 8th, 2025, Monday, 3PM. Room TG23 Speaker: Ahmed Eissa Title: Addressing Racial Bias in Law Enforcement: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Developing Ethical AI Systems for Objective Threat Assessment Abstract: This research addresses the persistent challenge of racial profiling in law enforcement through an innovative interdisciplinary framework that integrates technical approaches to bias mitigation in AI, […]
Nov 25th, 2025, Tuesday. 3PM. Room TG23. Speaker: François Chadebecq Title: Optimal Transport for Sea Ice Dynamics: Challenges and Solutions in Motion Estimation Abstract: In this seminar, I will present my current research investigation on utilizing Optimal Transport (OT) to model sea ice dynamics. The state of sea ice, including its drift, deformation, growth, and […]
October 21st, 2025. Tuesday. TG23. 3PM. Speaker: Abimbola Afolayan (Middlesex Univerisity, London) Title: Applying Machine Learning to Investigate Malaria Risk Factors and Predict Malaria incidence in Southwest Nigeria Abstract: The malaria epidemic has emerged in recent years as one of the most challenging issues in Nigeria where climate factors are favourable to species of mosquitoes […]
September 18, 2025. Thursday. TG23. 3PM. Speaker: Siva Rama Krishnan Somayaji (Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India). Title: Overview of the EMERALD UK-India British Council collaboration: AI-based analysis of ground water contamination in the Pala river basin Abstract The Indian environmental/govt sector have identified groundwater contamination as a key social concern, and the […]
March 20, 2025. Thursday. 4PM. Room TG23. Speaker: Madeleine Waller (King’s College, London) Title: Bias Mitigation Methods: Applicability, Legality, and Recommendations for Development Abstract: As algorithmic decision-making systems (ADMS) are increasingly deployed across various sectors, the importance of research on fairness in Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to grow. In this talk, we discuss the practical limitations and […]
February 25, 2025, Tuesday. 4PM. Room TG23. Speaker: Sanjay Bhattacherjee (University of Kent) Title: New results on lattice reduction algorithms Abstract: A lattice is a discrete subgroup of ℝ^m — a set of all integer linear combinations of linearly independent vectors, called its basis. A lattice has infinitely many bases. A lattice reduction algorithm transforms an […]
Speaker: Neil Brown (King’s College London) November 19, 2024, Tuesday. 4PM. Room TG23. Title: How novices program in Java Abstract: In order to improve the teaching of programming, it is important to understand how novices program. Our research group makes an IDE for novice Java programmers called BlueJ. Ten years ago we initiated a project named […]