Workshop on Monitoring PhD Student Progress
PhD Programme on Information and Communications Technology (Doc_TIC)
University of Vigo
Dates: June 14-15, 2018
Place: “Salón de Grados” – EE de Telecomunicación
Procedure of evaluation
Student Posters with session and committee assignment
Invited Speakers
Calendar
Some Pictures of the workshop
DUVI News
Program
Thursday, June, 14, 2018
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9:30-9:45 |
Opening Prof. Carlos Mosquera, Director of AtlanTTic Research Center Prof. Carmen Garcia-Mateo, Coordinator of Doc_TIC PhD Programme |
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9:45-11:15 |
Poster Session 1 with spotlights Chairperson: Carmen García-Mateo |
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11:15-12:15 |
Lecture by Dr Keeley Crockett Reader in Computational Intelligence Manchester Metropolitan University "Physiological Profiling with Artificial Intelligence" Chairperson: Prof. Ana Fernández Vilas |
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12:15 -13:45 |
Poster Session 2 with spotlights Chairperson: Prof. Carlos Mosquera |
Friday, June, 15, 2018
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9:30-11:00 |
Poster Session 3 with spotlights Chairperson: Prof. Enrique Costa Montenegro |
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11:00-12:00 |
Lecture by Dr. Clara Higuera BBC, UK "Algorithms for the Public Service" Chairperson: Prof. Carmen García Mateo |
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12:00 -13:30 |
Poster Session 4 with spotlights Chairperson: Prof. Iñigo Cuiñas |
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13:30 – 13:40 |
Closing |
Invited Speakers
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Dr Keeley Crockett Reader in Computational Intelligence Manchester Metropolitan University |
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Lecture Topic |
“Physiological Profiling with Artificial intelligence” |
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Lecture Abstract |
Artificial Intelligence is having an impact on our everyday lives. It has been argued that as Artificial Intelligence gets more complex our ability to understand and therefore guide how it makes decisions decreases. Moreover, it may come to pass that these machines will need to be maintained by other specialist machines, further removing humanity from the equation [1]. This talk will focus on how artificial intelligence can be used in Physiological profiling people. Silent Talker is a pioneering psychological profiling system which was developed by experts in Behavioural Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence. Designed for use in natural conversation, Silent Talker combines image processing and artificial intelligence to classify multiple visible signals of the head and face during verbal communication. From analysis, the system produces an accurate and comprehensive time-based profile of a subject’s psychological state. The talk will give examples on how Silent Talker technology can be used to detect deception through providing risk scores to border guards in a border crossing scenario, to detecting comprehension of a person and providing personalised online learning within a conversational intelligent tutoring systems. Ethical considerations will also be touched on in line with the GDPR and how it is important to have a “human in the loop” [1] Heron, M. & Belford, P., (2015), Fuzzy ethics: or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bot. ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society, 45(4), pp.4–6. |
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Biography |
Keeley gained a BSc Degree (Hons) in Computation from UMIST in 1993, and a PhD in the field of machine learning from the Manchester Metropolitan University in 1998 entitled "Fuzzy Rule Induction from Data Domains". She leads the Computational Intelligence Lab within the Machine Intelligence Cluster that has established a strong international presence in its research into Conversational Agents and Adaptive Psychological Profiling including an international patent on "Silent Talker". She is a knowledge engineer and has worked with companies to provide business rule automation with natural language interfaces using conversational agents. She is Senior Artificial Intelligence Scientist consultant for Silent Talker Ltd. She is currently a member of the IEEE Task Force on Ethical and Social Implications of Computational Intelligence and has a strong focus on ethically aligned design in the context of intelligent systems development. Her main research interests include fuzzy decision trees, semantic text based clustering, conversational agents, fuzzy natural language processing, semantic similarity measures, and AI for psychological profiling. Currently the Principal Investigator (MMU) on the H2020 funded project iBorderCtrl – Intelligent Smart Border Control and CI on a UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Service Power. She is the currently Chair of IEEE Women In Engineering United Kingdom and Ireland, Vice-Chair of the IEEE Women into Computational Intelligence Society and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy |
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Dr. Clara Higuera Cabañes BBC, UK. |
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Lecture Topic |
"Algorithms for the Public Service" |
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Lecture Abstract |
There is an increasing concern among the population about how algorithms affect our lives. They play nowadays an important role in the way we consume content. One of the common fears is the creation of echo chambers and filter bubbles that can affect how we perceive the world and society. However, algorithms can also help us discover new content and also help editors in media understand better their audiences so they can create better products. This talk will be focused on how can we code and use algorithms in a public service organisation with the aim of avoiding echo chambers and recommend diverse content as well as how to understand the diversity of the audience to for example reach underserved populations. |
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Biography |
Dr. Clara Higuera Cabañes graduated in Computer Science from the Complutense University in Madrid, afterwards she carried out her PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics. Her thesis was focused on the application of machine learning methods for the study of metabolism. During her PhD she carried out research stays in US and Sweden and published several papers in international journals. After her PhD she became interested in Data Science in industry and worked for a while in a start up on line newspaper in Spain. Now she works at BBC as data scientist applying the techniques she learnt during her PhD to help better understand BBC audiences and make decisions based on data. |
Session 1
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Session 2
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Session 3
| Name | Title | Advisor(s) |
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| Magariños Iglesias, María del Carmen | IMPROVEMENTS IN HMM-BASED AND UNIT-SELECTION SPEECH SYNTHESIS TECHNIQUES | Eduardo Rguez. Banga Daniel Erro Eslava |
| Mhiri , Saber | SDN-ORIENTED GLOBAL NETWORK OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM | Fco. J. Glez. Castaño |
| Pedrouzo Ulloa, Alberto | Homomorphic Lattice Cryptosystems for Secure Signal Processing | Fernando Pérez Glez. Juan R. Troncoso Pastoriza |
| Namaziesfanjani , Mina | Secure Signal Processing for Genomic Privacy Protection | Fernando Pérez Glez. |
| Santos Domínguez, David | UNDERWATER NOISE MAPPING METHODOLOGIES FOR SHALLOW WATERS | Soledad Torres Guijarro |
| Fernández Nandín, Abel | CONTRIBUTION TO THE VIRTUALIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR 5G NETWORKS | Felipe Gil Castiñeira |
| Barba Seara, Óscar | GENERATION OF KNOWLEDGE IN DYNAMIC FINANCIAL MARKETS WITH SUPERVISION | J. González Castaño |
| Ramírez Parracho, Tomás | New Multibeam Processing Schemes for HighThroughput Satellites | Carlos Mosquera Nartallo |
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Session 4
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List of students unable to attend
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Procedure for the Evaluation of the RESEARCH PLAN or ANNUAL DEFENCE
PhD Program on Information and Communications Technology of the University of Vigo
Academic year 2017-2018
Approved by the Academic Committee (CAPD)
General Considerations:
- This activity is compulsory for all the students enrolled in the academic year.
- The working language is English.
- A rubric for evaluation is approved by the Academic Committee of the PhD program (CAPD). This rubric will be used for all students. Nevertheless, evaluation committees will take into consideration the actual dedication of the students: Full- time students, Part-time students, etc. This rubric is in Annex 1.
- This rubric will be completed by the Evaluation Committee, and by the advisor(s) of the thesis. In case of more than one advisor, all advisors must agree on a single rubric.
- The Evaluation Committee will propose a Score to the Academic Committee of the PhD Program. CAPD will be in charge of delivering the final score.
- Each student will be assigned to one of the evaluation committees. This assignment is made by the CAPD.
- There will be four Evaluation Committees:
Committee no 1
- Antonio Pena Giménez
- Rebeca Díaz Redondo
- Manuel Caeiro Rodríguez
Committee no 2
- Cristina López Bravo
- Eduardo Rodríguez Banga
- Juan Carlos Burguillo Rial
Committee no3
- Pedro S. Rodríguez Hernández
- Inés García-Tuñón Blanca
- Manuel Ramos Cabrer
Committee no4
- María Soledad Torres
- Manuel Fernández Veiga
- Martín López Nores
Evaluation procedure and calendar:
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- All students must prepare a poster. The pdf file of the poster must be uploaded to the faitic server by 14:00 (CET) of Monday, June 4, 2018. DocTIC will be in charge of the printing of the poster for those students who will attend the session.
- Those students unable to attend the workshop will contact the DocTIC coordinator (doc_tic@uvigo.es) by Monday, June 4, 2018 explaining the reason for his/her absence. Upon acceptance, one member of the corresponding evaluation committee will contact the student in order to set up an appointment by Skype. The students will receive the instructions about how the evaluation will be conducted. These students do not have to send the slide.
- The advisors must upload one rubric by Monday, June 4, 2018 to the faitic server.
- Students attending the evaluation day must send one slide of the poster presentation (just 1 page in landscape orientation) by 14:00 (CET) of Monday, June 11, 2018
- The evaluation by the committees will take place during the poster sessions of the workshop (Thursday, June 14 and Friday, June 15).
- The evaluation committees will deliver the score by Thursday, June 28, 2018. Those students who fail will be granted with a two-week period to correct the observed deficiencies. Final scores will be delivered to the CAPD by Monday July 16, 2018.
- There will be 1 Best Poster Award that will be selected based on student voting.
Instructions for the preparation of the material
POSTER LAYOUT
- Poster orientation should be portrait (vertical).
- Poster size should be A0 (841 mm x 1189 mm).
- The title should be ideally in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, 72 pt. font. Author, Thesis Advisor(s) and affiliation should be in 42 pt. font
- Use colour for highlighting and to make your poster attractive.
- Use pictures, diagrams, figures, etc., rather than only text wherever possible.
- Minimum font size for all text: 24 pt.
- Sections to be included:
- Motivation of the work
- Thesis Objectives
- Research Plan
- Results & Discussions (if available yet)
- Next Year Planning
- References
POSTER SPOTLIGHT PRESENTATION
At the beginning of each Poster session, the students will have the opportunity to show 1 (ONE) slide in landscape orientation MAXIMUM to focus attention on the topic of their poster. Please note that this slide is not meant to cover the whole research, BUT ONLY HIGHLIGHT THE MAJOR GOALS OF THE THESIS WORK.
This slide (in a pdf file) must be uploaded to the faitic server.
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Preparatory Session |
All |
Friday May 4 |
10:00-14:00 |
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Notice of not attendance to the workshop |
Student |
Monday, June, 4 |
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Uploading of the poster file to FAITIC |
Student |
Monday, June, 4 |
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Uploading of the rubric to FAITIC |
Advisor/s |
Monday, June, 4 |
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Uploading of the slide file to FAITIC |
Student |
Monday, June 11 |
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Workshop Day1 |
All |
Thursday, June 14 |
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Workshop Day 2 |
All |
Friday, June 15 |
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Delivery of rubrics |
Committees |
Thursday, June 28 |
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Final scores delivering |
Committees |
July,19 |