Prospective PhD Students

PostGraduate Research

Postgraduate Workshop 2021

Wednesday 5th-Thursday 6th May 2021

Virtual (via Zoom)

All PhD students should attend every session. Feedback will be provided by IPAP members or their replacement. A PDF version of the program can be found here.

Wednesday 5th May 2021

(meeting link)

09:00 - 09:15 Welcome

09:15 - 10:30 3x 20 (+5) - minutes Talks

Chair: Giorgos Christodoulou

  • 09:15 - 09:40 Antonia Tsili
    Continuous Optimisation Problems in Crystal Structure Prediction
    Feedback: Tsakalidis, Zamaraev

  • 09:40 - 10:05 Estelle Varloot
    Voting with probabilities : Keeping the honesty when concerned about thresholds
    Feedback: Ibsen-Jensen, Christodoulou

  • 10:05 - 10:30 Elektra Kypridemou
    Graph Drawing and the Perception of Graphs
    Feedback: Potapov, Tsakalidis

10:30 -- 10:45 Coffee Break


10:45 -- 12:25 4x 20 (+5) -minutes Talks

Chair: Konstantinos Tsakalidis

  • 10:45 - 11:10 Hadeel Alghamdi
    Peak Picking in Multidimensional NMR Spectra Using Machine Learning
    Feedback: Yates, Goulermas

  • 11:10 - 11:35 Haneen Alharbi
    NMR data interpretation via constraints satisfaction approach
    Feedback: Yates, Tsakalidis

  • 11:35 - 12:00 Dumitru Mirauta
    Nonlinear unmixing via optimal transport
    Feedback: Fearnley, Tsakalidis

  • 12:00 - 12:25 Simona Capponi
    Integrating Predicted Data into Bayesian Optimization
    Feedback: Savani, Ibsen-Jensen


12:25 -- 13:25 Lunch Break


13:25 -- 14:40 3x 20 (+5) -minutes Talks

Chair: Floriana Grasso

  • 13:25 - 13:50 Emese Thamo
    Expectations for Explanations
    Feedback: Savani, Schewe

  • 13:50 - 14:15 Maryam Almarwani
    Release-Aware In-Out Encryption Adjustment Policy
    Feedback: Grasso, Schewe

  • 14:15 - 14:40 Yanhua Xu
    Artificial Intelligence in infectious diseases
    Feedback: Huang, Schewe

14:40 -- 15:00 Tea Break


15:00 -- 16:15 3x 20 (+5) -minutes Talks

Chair: Terry Payne

  • 15:00 - 15:25 Guanqun Cao
    Sensory Synergy of Vision and Touch in Perception
    Feedback: Payne, Huang

  • 15:25 - 15:50 Jiaqi Jiang
    Transparent Object Perception and Manipulation
    Feedback: Payne, Huang

  • 15:50 - 16:15 Konstantinos Alexandridis
    Cost Sensitive Learning for Foreground Imbalance in Object Detection
    Feedback: Payne, Nguyen

Thursday 6th May 2021

(meeting link)

09:15 - 10:30 3x 20 (+5) - minutes Talks

Chair: Xiaowei Huang

  • 09:15 - 09:40 Iqra Muhammad
    Knowledge graphs and its application to document ranking
    Feedback: Dures, Huang

  • 09:40 - 10:05 Dengyu Wu
    Energy-efficient Spiking Neural Network
    Feedback: Zhang, Bane

  • 10:05 - 10:30 Peipei Xu
    Towards the Quantification of Safety Risks in Deep Neural Networks
    Feedback: Goulermas, Yi

10:30 -- 10:45 Coffee Break


10:45 -- 12:25 4x 20 (+5) -minutes Talks

Chair: Boris Konev

  • 10:45 - 11:10 Yinzheng Zhong
    Online process mining for intrusion detection
    Feedback: Konev, Potapov

  • 11:10 - 11:35 Jing Qi
    Data Prioritisation in the Absence of a Ground Truth
    Feedback: Konev, Anosova

  • 11:35 - 12:00 Reham Alharbi
    Investigation of ontology reuse matching theory to practice
    Feedback: Konev, Coenen

  • 12:00 - 12:25 Amany Alshareef
    Analysing Deep Neural Networks Features Using Weighted Features Model
    Feedback: Coenen, Wojtczak


12:25 -- 13:25 Lunch Break


13:25 -- 14:40 3x 20 (+5) -minutes Talks

Chair: Prudence Wong

  • 13:25 - 13:50 Emmanouil Pitsikalis
    Expressive logic based complex event recognition
    Feedback: Amen, Kuijer

  • 13:50 - 14:15 Andrew Roxburgh
    Predicting Infant Language Acquisition Policy
    Feedback: Amen, Nguyen

  • 14:15 - 14:40 Theofilos Triommatis
    A greedy localisation algorithm and associated geometric intersection problems
    Feedback: Wong, Michail

14:40 -- 15:00 Tea Break


15:00 -- 16:15 3x 20 (+5) -minutes Talks

Chair: Viktor Zamaraev

  • 15:00 - 15:25 Samah Alkhuzaey
    Data-driven item difficulty prediction
    Feedback: Dunne, Thomason

  • 15:25 - 15:50 Samantha Durdy
    Property prediction in inorganic chemistry
    Feedback: Darling, Kurlin

  • 15:50 - 16:15 Matthew Bright
    A combinatoric approach to the topological characterisation of 2- and 3-periodic structures
    Feedback: Lisitsa, Zamaraev