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Due to the ongoing Corona virus restrictions IDA 2020 will be held as a virtual conference online on the original dates. As a result it will be free to all! More information will be posted here nearer the time: IDA2020

The IDA group has just been awarded a Royal Society International Exchange grant to foster collaborations with the Wildlife Institute of India on “Developing Deep Learning Techniques for individually identifying Tigers and other species in India from camera trap image”

The Artificial Intelligence in Medicine conference will be in Porto in June 2021

IEEE International Concference on Data Mining will be in Sorrento in Italy in November 2020

The European Conference on Machine Learning will be in Ghent, Belgium in Sept 2020

Congratulations to Toyah Overton & Biraja Ghoshal for their papers accepted to IDA 2020 this year:

Biraja Ghoshal, Cecilia Lindskog, Allan Tucker, “Estimating Uncertainty in Deep Learning for Reporting Confidence: An Application on Cell Type Prediction in Testes Based on Proteomics”

Toyah Overton, Allan Tucker, “DO-U-Net for Segmentation and Counting”

Yani Xue, Miqing Li, Xiaohui Liu, “Angle-based Crowding Degree Estimation for Many-Objective Optimization”

Congratulations to Alina Miron and Leila Yousefi who have been succesful in theie application for the Turing Data Study Group this week:

Congratulations to Noureddin Sadawi for his paper presentation at the SSTDM workshop at IEEE ICDM this year. His work was entitled ” Gesture Correctness Estimation with Deep Neural Networks and Rough Path Descriptors” (slides can be found here).

Congratulations again to Nicky Nicolson, who recently defended her thesis with no changes, and has now been awarded the GBIF Young Researcher award.

The award jury, led by GBIF science committee vice chair Anders G. Finstad of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), lauded Nicolson for her “highly original and innovative” approaches and her successful “use of data from GBIF to combine geographically distant collections using only minimal information on the specimen.”

She is the first U.K. national to win the award since Amy McDougal earned the honour in 2010, the programme’s first year. She is also the third U.K.-based winnner, preceded by McDougal and Juan Escamilla Mólgora, a Mexican PhD candidate at Lancaster University and 2016 award recipient.

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Congratulations to Nicky Nicolson who successfully defended her thesis on Friday 5th Oct with no changes! Nicky leads an IDA group at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew.

Welcome to Ashley Mann, Fawzia Kara-Isitt and Faisal Maramazi who will be starting their PhDs in October supervised by Stephen Swift and Mahir Arzoky.

Also, welcome to four new interns joining the IDA Group for the next 6 months:

Ylenia Rotalinti (Pavia): Working on Modelling Missingness in Primary Care Data

Barbara Draghi (Pavia): Working on Pseudo Time Models & Topological Analysis

Namir Oues (Brunel): Working on Patient Re-Identification in Synthetic Primary Care Data

Juan de Benedetti (Brunel): Working on Longitudinal Modelling of Primary Care Data

Congratulations to Toyah Overton who, with her employer Alcis, came second for her story map on identifying refugee tents using deep learning at the ESRI User conference on GIS last month.