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

9:30-9:45

Opening

Prof. Carlos Mosquera, Director of AtlanTTic Research Center

Prof. Carmen Garcia-Mateo, Coordinator of Doc_TIC PhD Programme

9:45-11:15

Poster Session 1 with spotlights

Chairperson: Carmen García-Mateo

Slides

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

12:15 -13:45

Poster Session 2 with spotlights

Chairperson: Prof. Carlos Mosquera

Slides

 

Friday, June, 15, 2018

9:30-11:00

Poster Session 3 with spotlights

Chairperson: Prof. Enrique Costa Montenegro

Slides

11:00-12:00

Lecture by Dr. Clara Higuera 

BBC, UK

"Algorithms for the Public Service"

Chairperson: Prof. Carmen García Mateo

12:00 -13:30

Poster Session 4 with spotlights

Chairperson: Prof. Iñigo Cuiñas

Slides

13:30 – 13:40

Closing

 

Invited Speakers 

Dr Keeley Crockett

Reader in Computational Intelligence

Manchester Metropolitan University

Lecture Topic

“Physiological Profiling with Artificial intelligence”

 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.

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

Dr. Clara Higuera Cabañes

BBC, UK. 

Lecture Topic

"Algorithms for the Public Service"

 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.

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

Name          Title Advisor(s)
Arriba Pérez, Francisco de KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION FROM USAGE DATA OF MOBILE DEVICES WITH EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES Manuel Caeiro Rguez.
J. M. Santos Gago
El Haj Ahmed , Ghofrane NOVEL ARCHITECTURE FOR MULTIMEDIA HARDWARE ACCELERATION   Felipe Gil Castiñeira
 Enrique Costa
Moure Fernández, María del Rocío Behavioural Modelling of Microwave Transistors for Wideband High Efficiency Power Amplifier Design Mónica Fdez. Barciela
Paul Tasker 

 
Ramos Merino, Mateo CONTRIBUTION TO DEVELOPMENT OF TELEMATIC SERVICES FOR DATA ANALYSIS IN TECHNOLOGY AREA. APPLICATION TO E-HEALTH FIELD

Luis M. Álvarez Sabucedo

Juan M. Santos Gago 

Álvarez Outerelo, David

DESIGN OF SYSTEMS FOR BREAKTHROUGH RADIO SYSTEMS

Ana Vázquez Alejos
Díaz Otero, Fco. Javier
Costa Pazo, Artur PRESENTATION ATTACK DETECTION ON FACE RECOGNITION SYSTEMS IN MOBILE DEVICES  José Luis Alba Castro
Esteban Vázquez Fernández
Ramos Muguerza, Eduardo ADVANCES IN ROBUST TECHNIQUES FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF PEOPLE IN AUDIOVISUAL CONTENTS José L. Alba Castro
Laura Docío Fernández
Vilar Gómez, Pablo

On-chip directly phase-modulated laser source for QKD applications

F.J. Díaz Otero

Go to the top

Session 2

Name          Title Advisor(s)
González Figueroa, Damián SYNTHESIS OF MULTIAXIS STATIONARY NON-GAUSSIAN SHAPED VIBRATION Roberto López Valcarce
Hmila , Mariem INTERFERENCE AWARE RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR UNDERLAY D2D-BASED DATA OFFLOADING IN 5G CELLULAR NETWORK Manuel Fdez. Veiga, Miguel Rodríguez Pérez
España Villegas, Carmelo Branimir CONTRIBUTION TO TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION FROM ECOSYSTEM OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES Caeiro Rodríguez, Manuel
Expósito Pérez, Isabel Study of the Uncertainty and its Minimization in the Measurement of Antenna Gain and Electromagnetic fields  Manuel García Sánchez
 Iñigo Cuiñas Gómez
Tato Arias, Anxo APPLICATION OF PROGRAMMABLE RADIOS TO ADAPTIVE COMMUNICATIONS  Carlos Mosquera Nartallo
Abdullah Rady, Ewies Daif CONTRIBUTIONS TO SEMANTICS-BASED RECOMMENDATIONS AND VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES TO DEVELOP AND CURATE CULTURAL HERITAGE EXPERIENCES  Martín López Nores
Gomez Villaverde, Marcos Jose CONTRIBUTION TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF MEANINGFUL LEARNING OUTCOMES IN PROGRAMMING SKILLS DURING SECONDARY EDUCATION José C. López Ardao
Raúl Rodríguez Rubio
Varela Brea, Borja  CONTEXT IDENTIFICATION AND INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM UNSTRUCTURES SOURCES USING A SEMANTIC ANALYSIS APPROACH Manuel Ramos Cabrer
Hussain, Kawar SPECTRUM SHAPING TECHNIQUES FOR ADVANCED MULTICARRIER COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS Roberto López Valcarce

Go to the top

Session 3

Name          Title Advisor(s)
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

Go to the top

Session 4

Name          Title Advisor(s)
Cerezo Costas, Hector CONTRIBUTION TO RESEARCH IN NEW MODELS OF KNOWLEDGE ON BIGDATA SYSTEMS Javier González Castaño

Valladares Rodríguez, Sonia María

2018 BEST POSTER AWARD

EARLY DETECTION OF COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT THROUGH GAMIFICATION, MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES AND ICT TOOLS Luis Anido Rifón
Manuel J. Fdez. Iglesias
Meira Ferrao Luis, Ricardo Manuel ENHANCE LEARNERS’ EXPERIENCE IN E-LEARNING BASED SCENARIOS USING INTELLIGENT ALERTING SYSTEMS AND LEARNING ANALYTICS  Martín Llamas Nistal
Manuel Fdez. Iglesias
García Novo, Fernando MULTIMEDIA DATA ANALISYS FOR EMOTION RECOGNITION Carmen García Mateo
Parada Loira, Francisco FAST VISION ALGORITHMS FOR ADVANCED DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS José Luis Alba Castro
Román Portabales, Antón Optimization of SmartGrid critical-event management Martín López Nores
García Méndez, Silvia CONTRIBUTION TO NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION FOR SPANISH E. Costa Montenegro
Milagros Fernández Gavilanes
Vidal Vidal, Antonio  ANALYSIS OF CLOUD SERVICES SPOT MARKETS J. González Castaño 

Go to the top

List of students unable to attend

Name          Title Advisor(s)
Fernandes Caiña, Miguel Spatio-temporal analysis of opinion in social media: outlier detection for the business intelligence area Rebeca Díaz Redondo
 Ana Fernández Vilas
Mera Iglesias, Moisés MULTIMODALITY FUNCTIONAL IMAGING IN RADIATION THERAPY: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FUNCTIONAL IMAGES OF HEAD AND NECK CANCER  José Luis Alba Castro
López Medina, Antonio
Bravo Quezada, Omar Gustavo APPLICATIONS OF SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGIES TO IMPROVE THE COMPREHENSION OF TEMPORO-SPATIAL INTERRELATIONS AMONG CULTURAL HERITAGE RESOURCES AND CONTEXTS  Yolanda Blanco Fernández, Manuel Ramos Cabrer
Egas Acosta, Carlos Contribution to the technical and QoS algorithms in wireless sensor networks Felipe Gil Castiñeira
Enrique Costa
García Vélez, Roberto Agustín AN EXPERT SYSTEM TO GENERATE STUDY GROUPS FROM PSYCHOLOGICAL AND ACADEMIC PROFILES IN HIGHER EDUCATION Martín López Nores, José Pazos Arias
Oya Díez, Simón SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATIONS  Fernando Pérez Glez.
Pérez Cabo, David Tonal and Harmonic Source Localization using Acoustic Vector Sensors  Manuel Sobreira Seoane
Álvarez López, Tamara SENTIMENT ANALYSIS IN SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENTS USING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES E. Costa Montenegro
 Milagros Fdez. Gavilanes
Cabrera Mejía, Javier Bernardo ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN SMART GRIDS. GAME THEORY  Manuel Fernández Veiga
Castro Lopes Martins Pinto Ferreira, Maria Isabel de CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SEGMENTATION OF MOVING OBJECTS IN VIDEO SEQUENCES José Luis Alba Castro
Corte Real, Luis 
Espozo Espinoza, Juan Eloy OPTIMIZED CACHE POLICIES AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR FOG COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS  Manuel Fernández Veiga 
Fernández Domingos, Elías COORDINATING HUMAN AND AGENT BEHAVIOR IN COLLECTIVE-RISK SCENARIOS  Burguillo Rial, Juan Carlos
Sánchez López, Sheila Lucero APPLICATION OF LEARNING ANALYTICS TECHNIQUES ON BLENDED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS  Rebeca P. Díaz Redondo
Ana Fdez. Vilas
Santana Mancilla, Pedro César CONTRIBUTION TO HOMECARE SYSTEMS FOR OLDER ADULTS THROUGH ITV Luis Anido Rifón
Teles Vagarinho, João Paulo CONTRIBUTIONS TO ASSESSING THE QUALITY IN E-LEARNING  Martín Llamas Nistal
Dahroug , Ahmed Tarek Abdelfattah Mohamed SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES TO PROMOTE SERENDIPITY AND SITUATIONAL CURIOSITY IN CULTURAL HERITAGE EXPERIENCES Martín López Nores
José  Juan Pazos Arias
Garcia Davalos, Alexander MOBILE ADVERTISING BASED ON MOBILE PHONE SENSING Jorge García Duque
Guerrero Vasquez, Luis Fernando CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE USE OF VIRTUAL AGENTS TO STIMULATE SOCIAL INTERACTION IN CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER Martín López Nores
Jack Fernando Bravo Torres 
 
Halawa , Mohamed PERFORMANCE ANOMALY DETECTION IN HPC Rebeca Díaz Redondo
Ana Fernández Vilas
Klaina , Hicham RADIO FREQUENCY PROPAGATION, CHARACTERIZATION AND MEASUREMENTS FOR ANTENNA SENSOR NETWORKS WITH APPLICATIONS IN SMART FARMING  Ana Vázquez Alejos
Otman Afhzout
Maged Moustafa Kamel, MennaAllah FROM SOCIAL BIG DATA TO PERSONALIZED TASKS RECOMMENDATIONS: A SEMANTIC APPROACH Alberto Gil Solla
Manuel Ramos Cabrer
Romualdo Carvalho, António Aristides INTERACTIVE LEARNING SYSTEMS APPLIED TO THE RETAIL MARKET Manuel Fdez. Veiga
Alaa El-Deen Ahmed, Rana WEB PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATION BASED ON ONTOLOGY EVOLUTION AND MACHINE LEARNING Manuel Fernández Veiga
Araque Gallardo, José Antonio  A MACHINE LEARNING (ML) BASED APPROACH FOR SMART ENERGY MANAGEMENT IN MICROGRIDS Juan C. Burguillo Rial
Ferreira Pires, Orlando CONTRIBUTION TO THE ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL LEARNING AND GAMIFICATION METHODOLOGIES ON HIGHER EDUCATION José Carlos López Ardao, Estela Sousa Vieira
Mohamed Hafez, Manar APPLYING DATA ANALYSIS TO PROVIDE EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS FOR E-COMMERCE   Rebeca Díaz Redondo
Nieto Díaz, José Manuel  Acoustic Monitoring in Hydro Power Plants using clustering techniques Manuel Sobreira Seoane 
Serpa Andrade, Luis  ECOSYSTEM OF INTELLIGENT TOOLS TO PROVIDE SUPPORT IN DIAGNOSIS AND INTERVENTION IN LEARNING TO WRITE FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS José Pazos Arias
Soto Rodríguez, Eduardo Antonio  Affordances of Computer-Based Assessments (CBA) Ana Fernández Vilas
Adel, Amr  ADAPTIVE E-LEARNING CONTENT GENERATION BASED ON SOCIAL MEDIA INTERACTION Martin Llamas Nistal
Elgeddawy, Yasser Hosny Hussein A MOBILE BASED FRAMEWORK TO ENHANCE E-ASSESSMENT Martín Llamas Nistal 
Mohamed Naguib Ibrahim Hussein Elawadi , Radwa FOG COMPUTING SOLUTIONS FOR ANOMALY DETECTION Ana Fernández Vilas
Sa Moreira Fernandes, Bruno IMPROVING INTEROPERABILITY IN COMMUNICATIONS USING A NEW TRANSPARENT ABSTRACTION COGNITIVE TRANSPORT LAYER Manuel Fernández Veiga

Go to the top

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:

  1. This activity is compulsory for all the students enrolled in the academic year.
  2. The working language is English.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Each student will be assigned to one of the evaluation committees. This assignment is made by the CAPD.
  7. 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:

    1. 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.
    2. 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.
    3. The advisors must upload one rubric by Monday, June 4, 2018 to the faitic server.
    4. 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
    5. The evaluation by the committees will take place during the poster sessions of the workshop (Thursday, June 14 and Friday, June 15).
    6. 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.
    7. 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.

Annex1. Rubric: 

Go to the top

Task

Agent

Due date

Time

Preparatory Session

All

Friday May 4

10:00-14:00

Notice of not attendance to the workshop

Student

Monday, June, 4

 

Uploading of the poster file to FAITIC

Student

Monday, June, 4

 

Uploading of the rubric to FAITIC

Advisor/s

Monday, June, 4

 

Uploading of the slide file to FAITIC

Student

Monday, June 11

 

Workshop Day1

All

Thursday, June 14

 

Workshop Day 2

All

Friday, June 15

 

Delivery of rubrics

Committees

Thursday, June 28

 

Final scores delivering

Committees

July,19

 

Pictures

Go to the top