Community News
Dr. Heidi Christensen, from the Speech and Hearing group is the winner of the 2021 FDM everywoman in Technology Academic Award, sponsored by VMWare, for being a passionate advocate of eradicating the old image of engineering and of women in tech becoming role models for school children.
Dr. Carolina Scarton, from the Natural Language Processing group is the Program Committee Co-Chair of The 15th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR 2022). PROPOR is the top conference of the Portuguese NLP communities.
Prof. Aline Villavicencio, Chair in Natural Language Processing, is the Program Co-Chair for The 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2022). ACL is the top conferences in Natural Language Processing, and the next edition will be in Dublin from 22nd - 27th May 2022.
Dr Emma Norling, Director of Learning and Teaching at the Department of Computer Science is the Accreditation officer, responsible for maintaining accreditation of our undergraduate programmes and postgraduate taught programmes by BCS
Dr. Carolina Scarton, one of our Academic Fellows in the Natural Language Processing group has been appointed secretary of The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT). EAMT is a high profile organisation in the Machine Translation and NLP communities, and you can read more about EAMT here.
Prof. Aline Villavicencio, Chair in Natural Language Processing, is the Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Chair for The 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2021). EACL is one of the top conferences in Natural Language Processing, and you can read more about it here.
Dr Nesrine Kaaniche, Lecturer in Cybersecurity at the Department of Computer Science and co-affiliated with the Security of Advanced Systems group, is co-organising the 10th International Workshop on Cryptography, Robustness, and Provably Secure Schemes for Female Young Researchers (CrossFyre), which is co-located with Eurocrypt 2021 in Zagreb, Croatia.
This workshop brings together young researchers in the field of Cryptography and Information Security to help them to promote their research. An additional aim is to raise awareness among participants on gender-equality, to present the outcome of relevant social studies on the topic, and to discuss possible measures for improving the current situation.You can read more about CrossFyre 2021 here.
Fariba Yousefi, PhD student at the Machine Learning group, has been selected as the general chair for the Women in Machine Learning Workshop (WiML) at the International Conference in Machine Learning (ICML) this summer. ICML is a high profile conference in machine learning (ML), and WiML has a mission to increase the number of women in ML, support their professional development and increase the impact of women in the ML community. You can read more about WiML here.