The 2024 SICSA PhD Conference was at the University of Aberdeen. The Programme Schedule is shown below.

Schedule Day 1
Tuesday 9th July
- 09:30 – 10:00 | Registration & Coffee
Location: James MacKay Hall - 10:00 – 10:10 | Welcome
Location: Auditorium - 10:10 – 10:50 | Keynote Talk
— Prof. John McCall, National Subsea Centre
Location: Auditorium - 10:50 – 11:30 | Keynote Talk
— Paul Winstanley, CEO CENSIS
Location: Auditorium - 11:30 – 11:45 | Coffee Break
Location: James MacKay Hall - 11:45 – 13:00 | Parallel Sessions
Location: See Reverse - 13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch & Poster Session
Location: Elphinstone Hall - 14:30 – 15:30 | Reverse Viva
Location: See Reverse - 15:45 – 17:00 | Social Activities
Choice of:
— Designing in Virtual Reality
Location: Multimedia Room (KQG3)
— Coffee Tasting with Long Walk Coffee
Aberdeen City Council Room (KQG4)
— Cruickshank Botanical Garden self-guided tour
Location: Cruickshank Botanical Gardens
Conference Dinner:
18:30 – 20:30 | Conference Dinner & Prizes
Location: Elphinstone Hall
Best Dissertation 2024
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Schedule Day 2
Wednesday 10th July
- 09:30 – 10:00 | Arrival Coffees
Location: James MacKay Hall - 10:00 – 10:05 | Welcome & Overview
Location: Auditorium - 10:05 – 12:00 | Group Research Activity
- 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch & Networking
Location: Elphinstone Hall - 13:00 – 13:30 | Group Research Activity
- 13:45 – 14:15 | Keynote Talk
— Fash Fasoro – Data Kirk
Location: Auditorium - 14:15 – 15:00 | Keynote Talk
— Dr Gavin Abernethy, Heriot Watt
Location: Auditorium - 15:00 – 15:05 | Closing Remarks
Location: Auditorium
Reverse Viva
- English as a second language user’s Information Interaction in an e-Governmental Context.
David Brazier – Edinburgh Napier
Location: Aberdeen City Council Room (KQG4) - A hierarchical active binocular robot vision architecture for scene exploration and object appearance learning.
Gerardo Aragon Camarasa – University of Glasgow
Location: Catherine Gavin Room (KQG2) - Statistical inference for periodic and partially observable Poisson processes.
Ferdian Jovan – University of Aberdeen
Location: Multimedia Room (KQG3) - Processing clinical guideline text for formal verification.
Fahrurozzi Rahman – University of St Andrews
Location: Carnegie Room (KQG1) - Learning the consensus of multiple correspondences between data structures.
Carlos Moreno-Garcia – Robert Gordon University
Location: Auditorium
Parallel Sessions
- Teaching as a PhD Student
Dr Matthew Barr, University of Glasgow
Location: Elphinstone Hall (KQG4) - Navigating Career Pathways
Fash Fasoro – The DataKirk
Location: Elphinstone Hall (KQG4) - Comic Sienze: Visual Storytelling for Effective Communication
Dr Neil Maiden – University of Aberdeen
Location: Multimedia Room (KQG3) - Planning and Writing Your Thesis
Dr Aaron Thorn & Dr Mary Pryor – University of Aberdeen
Location: Auditorium










































