Schedule

10.00 - 10.25Tea & Coffee
10.25 - 10.30Welcome & PhD Symposium overview
Alina Miron, Brunel University London
10.30 - 11.30Invited Speaker
Prof. Chris Hankin, Imperial College London
11.30 - 11.45Short break
11.45 - 12.00Talk
Dr Allan Tucker, Post Graduate Research Director
12.00 - 12.45Session 1 - PhD Student Presentations
Chair: Dr Isabel Sassoon

Namir Oues - MDSubSampler: a posteriori sampling of important protein conformations from biomolecular simulations.

Niccolo McConnell - Extended nnUNet: Investigating the Integration of Advanced Architectural Components.

Nchongmaje Ndipenoch - Simultaneous Segmentation of Layers and Fluids in Retinal OCT Images.
12.45 - 13.30Lunch
13.30 - 14.30Invited Speaker
Dr. James Cain, Chief Software Architect, Grass Valley
14.30 - 15.15Session 2 - PhD Student Presentations
Chair: Dr Nadine Aburumman

Tasin Islam - SVTON: Simplified Virtual Try-On.

Afees Odebode - Estimating the Optimal Number of Clusters from Subsets of Ensembles.

Ashley Mann - Solving the issue of collecting datasets for Software Modularisation and other SBSE Application.
15.15 - 15.30Short Break - tea & coffee
15.30 - 16.15Session 3 - PhD Student Presentations
Chair: Dr Cigdem Sengul

Seyed Erfan Sajjadi - Federated Learning Literature Review for CORES Project.

Dev Aditya - Review: Using Artificial Intelligence for improving accessibility for sign users.

Josephine Ayebare - An e-participation model and mobile application to increase Ugandan rural population participation in policy development and evaluation : Participatory design.
16.15 - 16.30Short Break
16:30AWARDS
closing

Awards

  • Best early PhD article (awarded to a PhD student within the first 18 months (or equivalent for part-time students) since starting the PhD): Niccolo Mcconnell
  • Best early PhD presentation (awarded to a PhD student within the first 18 months (or equivalent for part-time students) since starting the PhD): Namir Oues
  • Best PhD article: Ashley Mann
  • Best PhD presentation: Tasin Islam