Awards
We have been overwhelmed by the quality of nominations for Best Dissertation and Best Supervisor and we look forward to recognising the exceptional talent of our SICSA colleagues at our Conference Dinner on Wednesday, 25 June.
Best Dissertation 2024 Nominees
Ronald CardenasOn the Trade-off between Redundancy and Cohesion in Extractive Summarization |
Simon DaviesContributions to Crypto-Ransomware Analysis and Detection |
Alec DialloActive Intelligence for Secure Systems: Designing High-Performance, Robust, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence Systems for Cyber-Security |
Aiden DurrantSelf-Supervised Representation Learning in Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Embedding Space |
Lucy HavensRecalibrating Machine Learning for Social Biases: Demonstrating a New Methodology through a Case Study Classifying Gender Biases in Archival Documentation |
Chloe HequetBiologically-informed Interpretable Deep Learning Techniques for BMI Prediction and Gene Interaction Detection |
Shaun MacdonaldInvestigating Emotionally Resonant Vibrations as a Calming Intervention for People with Social Anxiety |
Florian MathisMoving usable security research out of the lab: evaluating the use of VR studies for real-world authentication research |
Jhielson Montino PimentalUnfolding Neurorobotics as a Tool to Investigate Regular and Disrupted Neural Activities using Humanoid Robots |
Gabriel OkoloMachine learning Applications for Medical Imaging |
Martin RossAn Adaptive Robot for Sports and Rehabilitation Coaching |
Patrick SchrempfNLP-Supervised Stroke Detection in Medical Images |
Tin TironsakkulBehind the Chain of Obscurity: Methodologies for Cryptocurrency Forensic Analysis |
Best Supervisor 2024 Nominees
Matt Aitkenhead, Abertay University |
Muhammed Akram, Abertay University |
Joseph Akunna, Abertay University |
Ross Anderson, University of Edinburgh |
John Babraj, Abertay University |
Antonio Barbalace, University of Edinburgh |
Edwin Brady, University of St Andrews |
Peter Cruickshank, Edinburgh Napier University |
Mark Deakin, Edinburgh Napier University |
Arash Eshghi, Heriot-Watt University |
Daniel Gilmour, Abertay University |
Keng Goh, Edinburgh Napier University |
Michael Herrmann, University of Edinburgh |
Jason Jacques, University of St Andrews |
Suha Jaradat, Edinburgh Napier University |
Ehsan Jorat, Abertay University |
Mohamed Khamis, University of Glasgow |
Aggelos Kiayias, University of Edinburgh |
Markulf Kohlweiss, University of Edinburgh |
Georgios Leontidis, University of Aberdeen |
Lynn Love, Abertay University |
Christopher Lucas, University of Edinburgh |
Rich Macfarlane, Edinburgh Napier University |
Stefano Paoli, Abertay University |
Yuvraj Patel, University of Edinburgh |
Dimitrios Pezaros, University of Glasgow |
Ajitha Rajan, University of Edinburgh |
David Scott, Abertay University |
Chan See, Edinburgh Napier University |
Islam Shyha, Edinburgh Napier University |
Amjad Ullah, Edinburgh Napier University |
Antonio Vergari, University of Edinburgh |
Hongnian Yu, Edinburgh Napier University |
Ciprian Zavoianu, Robert Gordon University |