Schedule
| 09.00 - 09.30 | Tea & Coffee |
| 09.30 - 09.35 | Welcome & PhD Symposium overview Dr Alina Miron, Brunel University London |
| 09.35 - 09.45 | PGR Introduction Dr Allan Tucker, Brunel University London |
| 09.45 - 10.45 | Session 1: Chair Dr Isabel Sassoon Matteo Vaccargiu Analysing Sustainability Discussions among Ethereum Developers: Insights from BERT-Based Topic Modeling Nchongmaje Ndipeoch Head and Neck Tumor Segmentation from PET/CT Images Barbara Puccio Clustering pseudo time series: exploring trajectories in the ageing process Philipp Bibik Probing Deception Risks from Reward Misspecification in Alignment Fine-tuning of Large Language Models |
| 10.45 - 11.00 | Short break |
| 11.00 - 11.55 | Talk Keynote talk: Dr Vesna Nowack: Automated program repair: human aspects and best practices |
| 11.55 - 12.00 | Talk Posters intro: Ashley Mann: Applying Graph Partitioning-Based Seeding Strategies to Software Modularisation Johann Cardona & Jamie Webber: ML vs Hate: Challenging Discriminatory Language in UK News platforms Chiara Pullega: Mitigation of Bias in Deep Learning Models: An Agnostic Approach Hamna Aamer: Taboholic? Tackling Tab Hoarding |
| 12.00 - 12.45 | Lunch & Posters |
| 12.45 - 13.30 | Session 2 Chair: Dr Valeriia Haberland Gerard Doran Classifying neural data related to emotions in a human-human interaction Andila Asim Systematic Literature Review of Microservice Simulation and Modelling Lina Huang Polyp segmentation: From UNet to Res-UNet and nnUNet |
| 13.30 - 13.45 | Short Break |
| 13.30 - 14.30 | Invited Speaker Pankaj Joshi: Counselling and Mental Well-being Talk |
| 14.30 - 14.45 | Short Break |
| 14.45 - 15.30 | Session 3 Chair: Dr Sarath Dantu Jingzhong Fang A New Transfer-Learning-Based Sample Selection Approach for Noisy Label Problems Abdul-Malik Baba User information security behaviour in a developing country: An extended Protection Motivation Perspective |
| 15.30 - 15.45 | Short Break - tea & coffee |
| 15.30 - 16.30 | Invited Speaker Prof Martin Shepperd: How to answer reviewers comments |
| 16.30 - 17.00 | Invited Speaker Dr Leila Ghanbar: A PHD journey |
| 17:00 | AWARDS closing |
Awards
- Best PhD article: Matteo Vaccargiu Analysing Sustainability Discussions among Ethereum Developers: Insights from BERT-Based Topic Modeling
- Best PhD presentation: Gerard Doran Classifying neural data related to emotions in a human-human interaction
- Best early PhD article: Andila Asim Systematic Literature Review of Microservice Simulation and Modelling
- Best early PhD presentation: Philipp Bibik Probing Deception Risks from Reward Misspecification in Alignment Fine-tuning of Large Language Models
- Poster: Ashley Mann Applying Graph Partitioning-Based Seeding Strategies to Software Modularisation Best poster popular vote
- Poster: Johann Cardona & Jamie Webber ML vs Hate: Challenging Discriminatory Language in UK News platforms Best poster undergraduate