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Dr Mahdi Aiash and Dr Hector Menendez have obtained further funding to develop their AdvMLTester project into a commercial product. The project aims at detecting potentially exploitable vulnerabilities in machine learning systems. The project is funded under CyberASAP (Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator Programme), a pre-seed accelerator programme in the cybersecurity ecosystem to convert academic ideas […]
Dr Kai Xu is elected as an Expert Fellow of the EPSRC SPRITE+ Network in recognition of his expertise in data analysis and human-centred machine learning. SPRITE+ is a research network funded by EPSRC, the UK research council on engineering and physical sciences. The focus of the research network is ‘Security, Privacy, Identity, Trust in the Digital […]
Dr Kai Xu is elected as a Director for the UK Chapter of the EuroGraphics Association (EGUK). Founded in 1981, EGUK is the UK branch of Eurographics, a world-wide organisation devoted to the needs of professionals in computer graphics and all related visual disciplines. Membership of the UK Chapter comes from being an EG member living […]
Despite the challenges of these times, and the sad loss of Professor Miltos Petridis to the pandemic one year ago, our department has recently made – and is planning to make – a number of appointments. Professor Balbir Barn has been taking interim responsibilities as head of department in the past year on top of […]
The state of the art AI technology has been playing significant role in medical fields. Recently, led by Prof Xiaohong Gao, Middlesex University is in partnership with several other institutions and NHS hospitals working on AI in early detection of cancers (funded by CRUK), AI in visualisation of HPV virus (funded by The Royal Society) […]
Dr Kai Xu is a co-investigator on the EPSRC grant RAMP VIS that aims to support epidemiologists in the fight against Covid19. It started as a volunteer effort, led by Prof. Min Chen from Oxford University. A team of 20 visualisation researchers from over 10 different universities worked closely with epidemiologists who are modelling various aspects of […]
Prof Juan Augusto has been appointed (from December 2020 onwards) as a member of the BCS-SGAI Steering Committee. BCS SGAI is the Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence from the British Computer Society. The full list of committee members can be seen here
TITLE: Designed Intelligence SPEAKER: Dr Connor Upton, Group Design Director, Fjord at the Dock, Accenture, Dublin DATE: Tuesday, 19 Jan 2021, 3-4.15pm (London time). LOCATION: Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/94355790919?pwd=cWZGT1dlRVRianJET2Uyd1Vlcjg0Zz09 Channel opens at 2:45 PM London Meeting ID: 943 5579 0919 Passcode: kK6eE8 ABSTRACT: We see a lot of research on how to design for and […]
The Research Group on Development of Intelligent Environments, headed by Prof Juan Carlos Augusto from the department of Computer Science, won the first prize in this year British Computer Society (BCS) Machine Intelligence Competition which took place at BCS Headquarters in London during the 4th of October. The Middlesex University team won by a big […]
The Women in Computing group at Middlesex was founded in 2014. The purpose of this group is to bring together Middlesex-affiliated women who are studying or interested in Computing and to share common interests, concerns and ambitions. We have 58 members. We post events or interest and communicate via the following facebook group (closed group). […]