Social AI CDT

UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Socially Intelligent Artificial Agents, hosted by the University of Glasgow @UofGlasgow | @alevincia @MonikaHarvey65

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After a fantastic year for the Social AI CDT, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and we look forward to what 2025 will bring!

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Congratulations to our student, Dr @RennieTheRobot , who successfully passed his viva this week. Gordon's PhD is titled, "Deep Learning for Automatic Laughter Detection in Spontaneous Conversations". Well done Gordon! 🎉🥳👏

A big thank you to his supervisors and examiners too!

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@MonikaHarvey65 @alevincia @MKhamisHCI @SchynsPhilippe @RavinderSDahiya @brain_on_dance @UofGPsychNeuro @GlasgowCS @UofGSciEng @UofGMVLS

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The Social AI CDT has had such a brilliant few weeks as three of our students have successfully passed their vivas with minor corrections. Congratulations to Dr @RaduChirila2 , Dr @robin_bretin , and Dr Casper Hyllested. Well done - we are very proud of you all! 🎉🥳

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📢📢 The Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (@UofGlasgow) seeks candidates for a funded PhD position. The position will be interdisciplinary research at the interface of machine learning, medical imaging, and social sciences. See here for more details: https://t.co/MoqUHiWHib

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One of the Social AI CDT Directors, @alevincia, recently attended the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction in Costa Rica, where he had the pleasure of serving as a mentor for the Doctoral Consortium. See more about the conference here: https://t.co/ZZBiU2zcNT

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@alevincia @UofGPsychNeuro

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One of the Social AI CDT Directors, @MonikaHarvey65, recently delivered a plenary lecture at @AucklandUni titled, "Neuroscience Approaches to Stroke Rehabilitation and Predictions of Brain Health”. If you would like to find out more, please click here: https://t.co/8tbMnOeyp3

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Congrats to Dr Maria Vlachou - the FIRST of our second cohort of students to successfully defend her thesis! @mvlacho1's PhD is titled, "Predicting Retrieval Failures in Conversational Recommendation Systems". Well done 📚🏆🎓

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A HUGE congratulations to Dr Mary Roth, the second-ever Social AI CDT student to successfully defend her viva! Mary's PhD, "Robust, Efficient, Dynamic Theory of Mind", was all about working to improve the social skills of artificial agents. We are very proud of you Mary🎉🥳

[Cristina @crisfni]

Excited to present our paper "Exploring the Perspectives of Social VR-Aware Non-Parent Adults and Parents on Children’s Use of Social Virtual Reality" at #CSCW2024! Join me on Tuesday from 11am in Session 2a. @MarkHCI @MKhamisHCI @Social__AI

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Thank you to all who attend our annual Celebration Event at @UofGARC, and to our students for presenting posters and demos - their work is hugely impressive and impactful! If you have time, click to watch a short snippet 📽️ https://t.co/dQuuthqkvL

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Congratulations to the Responsible Ai UK keystone project, PHAWM (https://t.co/s5wPGJdAIm) led by @DrSimoneStumpf, which has now officially launched. Click here for the full details: https://t.co/rwD7KiThA8

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Congrats to our student Dominik Szczepaniak for presenting a poster at IEEE ISMAR titled, “ML-Driven Cognitive Workload Estimation in a VR-based Sustained Attention Task”, about the use of eye-tracking & physiological metrics to predict cognitive load in a virtual environment.

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We were very pleased to welcome @pablo_arias_sar, a prior recipient of a Marie Curie Fellowship and now a SPN academic at @UofGlasgow, who talked to our students about what to expect when applying for a fellowship. For the full details, please see here: https://t.co/1ur7vdy9yd

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Congrats to our student, Rawan Srour-Zreik, for successfully delivering her first presentation titled, “Where’s my TOR?: Evaluating the Effect of Take-Over Request Source on Older Drivers’ Control Transitions in Level 3 Cars” at @ACMMobileHCI last week! https://t.co/8TIHVsdoOl

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📢 Proposals for #GlaSciFest 2025 are OPEN!

Want to join the GSF family for 2025? You have until the 13th Jan 2025 to submit a proposal through our website 👇
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Not sure yet? Check out some pics of last year for inspo… 👀

[DiveIn CDT @DiveIn_CDT]

📣We are Live🙌
Applications are now open to join our innovative @EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Diversity Led, Mission-Driven Research
Are you keen to use your STEM knowledge to make a difference?
DiveIn and explore our Catalogue of Possibilities
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It is with huge pride that the CDT can say 13 of the supervisors within our CDT Supervisory Network have fallen within the top 2% of the most cited scientists in the world during 2023, according to a @Stanford database. For the full details please see here https://t.co/nmIqtgEDXo