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Delve into the computational hot topics coming to the fore at UCL, as presented at the Festival of Digital Research & Scholarship 2024
Prized Presentations
As voted for by our Festival attendees...Congratulations!
First Prize
Open Scholarship: The challenges in building meaningful models with publicy available omics
Presented by Eva Price (Session 1)
Runner-Up Prize
We had 5 presenters jointly voted for by our audience!
Machine Learning framework for patient specific simulations of the impact of metastatic cancer in the spine, presented by Simão Laranjeira (Session 2)
Sustainable Digital Twins: Assessing the impact of UCL IoT data, presented by William Markiewicz (Session 3)
What is an OPSO and why do we need on in UCL?, presented by David Pérez-Suárez (Session 4)
Stop, Collaborate and Listen: how to reduce wasted RSE effort, presented by Connor Aird (Session 4)
From Anti-racism to Decolonisation, presented by Samantha Ahern
Where made availble, all the amazing presentations from across the day can be downloaded from the Session table(s) below. For 'From Anti-racism to Decolonisation' please go to Plenary Keynotes & Talks for downloadable slide-deck
- Session 1: Sensors & Data 1
Speaker Title Download 1200 Eva Price (UCL Engineering Sciences) Open Scholarship: The challenges in building meaningful models with publicy available omics 1215 Mohammad Yaman Rawas Kalaji (The Bartlett) Utilising IoT sensors to understand the environmental performance of NHS eye clinics 1230 Yolanda Lau (UCL Brain Sciences) Association between digital biomarkers and anxiety: a systematic review and meta-analysis 1245 Alessandro Marinelli (UCL Brain Sciences) Preliminary investigation of excitation/inhibition balance in visual snow syndrome through the Virtual Brain Unavailable
- Session 2: AI & HPC
Speaker Title Download 1200 Emily Dubrovska (UCL ARC) Benchmarking for the exascale 1215 Tuomas Koskela (UCL ARC) Speeding up numerical computations 1230 Simão Laranjeira (UCL Engineering Sciences) Machine Learning framework for patient specific simulations of the impact of metastatic cancer in the spine Unavailable 1245 Elsie Ong Comparative study of Generative AI (ChatGPT) vs Human in generating multiple choice questions based on the PIRLS reading assessment framework
- Session 3: Sensors & Data 2
Speaker Title Download 1345 Sean Hanna (The Bartlett) Continent wide Topogeometric models and space syntax Unavailable 1400 Ingolf Becker (UCL Engineering Sciences) Automated participant recruitment for survey studies Unavailable 1415 William Markiewicz (The Bartlett) Sustainable Digital Twins: Assessing the impact of UCL IoT data 1430 Melanie Smallman (UCL Mathematical and Physical Sciences) Science to the rescue: Computational approaches to scale-up insight to case study data on public attitudes to technology 1445 Huajie Guo (UCL Engineering Sciences) A DEM-based analysis of micromechanical behavior of hydrate bearing sediment in the South China sea Unavailable
- Session 4: Enabling Digital Research
Speaker Title Download 1345 David Pérez-Suárez (UCL ARC) What is an OPSO and why do we need on in UCL? Unavailable 1400 Samantha Ahern (UCL ARC) ARC Education: Who, what, why and how? Unavailable 1415 Francisco Duran del Fierro (UCL IoE) Identity, epistemic virtues and professional development in the context of the digital transformation of research communities 1430 Louise Chisholm (UKSRC) Developing the digital research infrastructure ecosystem to explore the early universe Unavailable 1445 Connor Aird (UCL ARC) Stop, Collaborate and Listen: how to reduce wasted RSE effort