Phd symposium PROGRAMME
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PhD Symposium will take place in Lecture Theatre 2 in the Teaching and Learning Building, University of Birmingham
Saturday 21st October
| Arrival Refreshments - 9:00am - 9:30am | |
| Welcome and Introductions - 9:30am - 9:50am | |
| Session 1 - 9:50am - 10:30am | |
| Mingkun Xu | Exploiting Homeostatic Synaptic Modulation in Spiking Neural Networks
for Semi-Supervised Graph Learning |
| Alberto Veneri | Explaining Learning to Rank Methods to Improve Them |
| Refreshment Break - 10:30am - 11:00am | |
| Session 2 - 11:00am - 12:20pm | |
| Omid Shokrollahi | Employing Quantum Entanglement for Effective Intersectional Bias
Mitigation in Pre-trained Language Models |
| Grigor Bezirganyan | Data And Decision Fusion With Uncertainty Quantification For ML-based
Healthcare Decision Systems |
| Praveen Acharya | Towards Effective Modeling and Exploitation of Search and User Context
in Conversational Information Retrieva |
| Abdelghani Azri | Improve the accuracy of the recommendation systems and optimize
them to reduce the cost of computation |
| Instructions concerning one-on-one mentoring sessions - 12:20pm - 12:30pm | |
| Lunch - 12:30pm - 2:00pm | |
| Session 3 - 2:00pm - 3:00pm | |
| Dongqi Fu | Investigating Natural and Artificial Dynamics in Graph Data Mining and
Machine Learning |
| Kislay Raj | A neuro-symbolic approach to enhance Interpretability of Graph neural
network through the integration of external knowledge |
| Kuang-Da Wang | Enhancing Badminton Player Performance via a Closed-Loop AI
Approach: Imitation, Simulation, Optimization, and Execution |
| One-on-one mentoring session 1 - 3:00pm - 3:30pm | |
| Refreshment Break - 3:30pm - 4:00pm | |
| One-on-one mentoring session 2 - 4:00pm - 4:30pm | |
| General feedback/advice from mentors - 4:30pm - 5:15pm | |
| Wrap-up - 5:15pm - 5:30pm | |