IDSAI Research seminar series
We are delighted to announce this year's IDSAI Research Seminar Series, which has been organised by our Theme Leads here at IDSAI.
| Date/Time | Name of Speaker | Seminar Title | Delivery | IDSAI Theme Lead/Contact | Research Theme | Further Details | Recording |
| 22 September 2022: 14:00-15:00 | Dario Sansone | Using Machine Learning to Create an Early Warning System for Welfare Recipients | In person and by Zoom | Oliver Hauser | Behavioural and Experimental Data Science | Details | Recording |
| 28 September 2022: 14:00-15:00 | Richard Wilkinson (University of Nottingham) | Using adjoint to accelerate inference in linear systems | In person and by Zoom | Peter Challenor/Danny Williamson | Uncertainty Quantification | Details | Recording |
| 5 October 2022: 14:00-15:00 | Federico Botta | Working with No 10 and ONS data scientists: data science for public policy | In person and by Zoom | Federico Botta | Urban Analytics | Details | Not available |
| 12 October 2022: 14:00-15:00 | David Moffat (PML) | Deep-learning detection of harmful algal blooms | In person and by Zoom | Chunbo Luo/Steven Palmer | Remote Sensing | Details | Not available |
| 19 October 2022: 14:00-15:00 | Jakob Zeitler (ULC) | Causal Inference: Introduction to Partial Identification and Recent Advances | In person | Mark Kelson | Reproducibility | Details | Recording |
| 26 October 2022: 14:00-15:00 | Alexey Bessudnov | Working with the National Pupil Database in the ONS Secure Research environment | In person and by Zoom | Alexey Bessudnov | N/A | Details | Not available |
| 26 October 2022: postponed - new date to be announced | Mark Girolami (Alan Turing Institute) | To follow | To follow | Richard Everson | N/A | To follow | |
| 2 November 2022: 14:00-15:00 | Sara Schnadt (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) | Design Thinking On Mars: Architecting New Systems for Collaborative Science on the Martian Surface | Zoom delivery | Leif Isaksen | Humanities, Heritage and Creative Industries | Details | Recording |
| 9 November 2022: 13:30-14:30 (with tea and coffee beforehand at 13:00) | Sayash Kapoor (Princeton University) | Leakage and the Reproducibility Crisis in ML-based Science | Zoom delivery, but also in person | Mark Kelson | Reproducibility | Details | |
| 17 November 2022: 14:00-15:00 | Mike Quayle (University of Limerick) | Bipartite attitude networks: a Method for Exploring Opinion-Based Groups, Group-Based Opinions, and Social Polarization | In person and by Zoom | Chico Camargo | Computational Social Science | Details | Not available |
| 23 November: 14:00-15:00 | Joni Coleman (KCL) | Variant-level fine-mapping in major depressive disorder: new insights, new questions | In person and by Zoom | Eilis Hannon | Health | Details | Not available |
| 29 November: 14:00-15:00 | Andrew Corbett | Deep Neural Networks as Dynamical Systems | In person and by Zoom | Andrew Corbett | Details | Recording | |
| 7 December: 14:00-15:00 | Joshua Introne (Syracuse University) | Building a Social Media Observatory | Zoom delivery | Mark Kelson | Computational Social Science | Details | Recording |
| 12 January 2023: 14:00-15:00 | Charlie Kirkwood | Geological Mapping in the age of Artificial Intelligence | In person | Details | Recording | ||
| 19 January 2023: 14:00-15:00 - postponed - new date to be announced | Jim Smith (UWE) | Health Data Research UK project - title to be confirmed | To follow | Ed Keedwell | Trustworthy AI | To follow | |
| 1 February 2023: 14:00-15:00 | Stephanie Hicks (John Hopkins Biochemistry and Molecular Biology PhD Program) | Reproducibility standards for machine learning in the life sciences |
Zoom delivery | Mark Kelson | Reproducibility | Details | Recording |
| 15 February 2023: 14:000-15:00 | Helen Margetts (Oxford) | Developing data science and AI from a public sector perspective: the Turing Public Policy Programme | In person and by Zoom | Richard Everson | Public Policy | Details | Recording |
| 10 May 2023: 14:00-15:00 - tbc | Caitlin Robinson (University of Bristol) | Energy inefficiency in the private rental sector in England and Wales | In person and by Zoom | Federico Botta | Urban Analytics | Details | Not available |
| 17 May 2023 | Hubert Au (Oxford) | Using “socially-aware” word embeddings to infer variation in the meaning of political terms over time | In person and by Zoom | Chico Camargo | Data Ethics, Governance and Openness | Details | Recording |
| 24 May 203 | Creating data assets and collaborative partnerships for artificial intelligence: the opportunities in the healthcare domain | In person and by Zoom | Krasi Tsaneva-Atanasova | Health | Details | Slides | |
| 7 June 2023: 14:00-15:00 - tbc | A capability approach to AI ethics | In person and by Zoom | Sabina Leonelli | Data Ethics, Governance and Openness | Details | Recording | |
| 8 June 2023: 14:00- 15:00 - Exact timings to be confirmed | Developing a resilient Data Science profession: observations from the UK's national skills landscape | In person and by Zoom | Richard Everson | Details |
