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🔎 Research spotlight Dr Marianna Cerasuolo is an applied mathematician specialising in mathematical and computational biology, focusing on data analysis and developing mathematical models for medical, biological, and environmental applications. Her expertise spans complex systems, experimental data analysis, and the study of diffusion, delayed, and instantaneous processes. She has worked on various challenges in biomathematics, including the design of optimal treatments for prostate cancer. She was awarded the Horizon 2020 project Diverfarming, where she developed models to predict the effects of diversified cropping systems on soil carbon. In 2023, she was awarded the Horizon Europe BIOservicES project to analyse soil microbiome dynamics under climate change. #researchspotlight #maths #womeninstem #computationalbiology #dataanalysis #biomathematics

🔊 Sussex AI PhD studentships 2025 - applications are now open! University of Sussex invites applications for PhD studentships based within Sussex AI, an interdisciplinary Centre of Excellence at the University of Sussex. This studentship is available to UK and overseas applicants. Deadline: 19 February 2025 Please email ai@sussex.ac.uk if you have any questions about the process. Project suggestions: https://lnkd.in/es3Cbj2g Application page: https://lnkd.in/eWPR9Fev #PhD #PhDcandidate #PhDstudentship #ai #doctoraltraining #sussex #brighton

We’ve just announced this year’s call for applications to our Sussex AI PhD studentships at the University of Sussex! You can find all the details https://lnkd.in/edSQNp5F. This year we’ve included a few suggested project directions to give some inspirations https://lnkd.in/e8UEKxHu. Please share with your contacts! Deadline is 19th February. Email me and/or DSAI_administration@sussex.ac.uk if you have any questions about the process.

Last week we hosted Mykola Makhortykh and Maryna Sydorova as our seminar speakers. Both researchers work at University of Bern and were visiting Landecker Digital Memory Lab run by Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden. Mykola and Maryna delivered a talk: ': Is the war in the eye of artificial beholders? Understanding how AI (mis)represents Russia's war in Ukraine'. Thank you for your interesting lecture!

Our member Peter Wijeratne will be presenting his work at NeurIPS 2024 next week. If you are attending, don't hesitate to check Peter's poster, in collaboration with Daniel Alexander. Details below. 👏

Interesting opportunity for proof-of-concept studies.

🔎 Research spotlight Albertus Andito is a PhD Student in the Text Analytics Group (TAG) Lab, working under the supervision of Professor David Weir and Professor Julie Weeds. His research focuses on using semantic similarity to match and group different categories of texts, with applications in schema matching and web scraping. In schema matching, he works on automatically aligning structured data across different sources using self-supervised contrastive learning. More recently, Albertus has been exploring the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate and verify web scraping configurations."

📖 New publication alert: Carlo Tiseo "Achieving Dexterous Bidirectional Interaction in Uncertain Conditions for Medical Robotics" #research #robotics #teleoperation #healthcare #IEEEBiorob2024

Dr Mykola Makhortykh and Maryna Sydorova will deliver a talk next week as part of Sussex AI Seminar Series. Check out the amazing project Landecker Digital Memory Lab run by Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden at the University of Sussex.

🔎 Research spotlight Stephen Wilkins is a Professor of Astronomy and Public Understanding of Science at the University of Sussex. Stephen’s main research focuses on understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies, particularly the first stages in the distant early Universe. To do this he, and his team, combine observations from telescopes including Webb and Hubble with supercomputer simulations. Outside his research Stephen is Head of Astronomy and also a keen advocate of public understanding of science. #astronomy #publicengagement #researchspotlight DISCUS (Data Intensive Science at University of Sussex)