Past Events
December 2025 | |
| Tue 16 Dec 2025 10:00 - 16:00 |  Conference: DMRN+20 Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2025Centre for Multimodal AI DMRN+20: Digital Music Research Network One-day Workshop 2025 Tuesday 16 December 2025 Organised by King's College London and the Centre for Digital Music of Queen Mary University of London https://www.qmul.ac.uk/dmrn/dmrn20/ The Digital Music Research Network (DMRN) aims to promote research in the area of digital music, by bringing together researchers from UK and overseas universities, as well as industry. The workshop will include invited and contributed talks and posters, and will be... |
November 2025 | |
| Sun 30 Nov 2025 11:00 - 15:00 |  Ripples of CareCentre for Human-Centred Computing Ripples of Care invites visitors to explore how acts of care for plants and animals can send ripples through a wider ecosystem. This one-day exhibition presents interactive, reflective videos and installations that transform moss terraria with digital media into small ecosystems and invite you to notice how care travels between people, places, and living things. Developed by a team of artists, designers, and researchers from Queen Mary University of London (iGGi), Royal College of Art, and... |
| Wed 26 Nov 2025 11:00 - 12:00 | Seminar: Guest lecture by Professor Inbal Arnon: "Cultural evolution creates language-like structure: from humans to humpback whales and beyond." Centre for Human-Centred Computing Abstract All known languages are made up of statistically coherent sequences - words - whose frequency distribution follows a power law known as a Zipfian distribution. Despite the ubiquity of these features across languages their origins are... |
| Wed 19 Nov 2025 11:00 - 12:00 |  Guest Lecture by Prof. Barbara di Eugenio: "Engaging Patients in Healthcare: Conversational Assistants in the era of Large Language Models" Centre for Human-Centred Computing Effective and compassionate communication with patients is becoming central to healthcare, and Natural Language Processing can play a central role in this endeavor. I will discuss the results of and lessons learned from two ongoing projects in this space, but also address the problem of bias in our computational models, especially LLMs. The VIRTUAL-COACH project models health coaching interactions via text exchanges that encourage patients to adopt specific and realistic physical activity goals;... |
| Wed 12 Nov 2025 11:00 - 12:00 | Seminar: Joe Stacey: How to improve the robustness and interpretability of Natural Language Inference models Centre for Human-Centred Computing Abstract Joe's talk will have two parts: 1) discussing how to improve the robustness of fine-tuned Natural Language Inference (NLI) models, and 2) introducing a method for creating inherently interpretable NLI models. In the first part, Joe... |
| Tue 4 Nov 2025 10:00 - 16:00 |  AI Collaborative WorkshopCentre for Probability, Statistics and Data Science We aim to bring together experts in AI and those using (or hoping to use) AI methods in their research, from all the five Schools of the Faculty of Science and Engineering. We envisage that the workshop will strengthen the ties between Schools, build a research community around the development and use of AI and develop teams and ideas well ahead of funding calls. Participation by registration: Registration is now closed. Organisers: Marcella Bona, Thomas Roelleke, Kostas Papafitsoros,... |
October 2025 | |
| Mon 13 Oct 2025 13:00 - 14:00 |  Seminar: Sir Peter Mansfield Lecture: "Bioelectronics – From Exploratory Research to Medical Translation" by Professor John Rogers, Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics, Northwestern University
Centre for Electronics Bioelectronics – From Exploratory Research to Medical Translation Please do register for the seminar at this link Advanced electronic/optoelectronic technologies designed to allow stable, intimate integration with living organisms will accelerate progress in biomedical research; they will also serve as the foundations for new approaches in monitoring and treating diseases. Specifically, capabilities for injecting miniaturized, biocompatible electronic systems and other components into... |
July 2025 | |
| Thu 3 Jul 2025 10:30 - 16:30 |  Evaluating AI for legal reasoning and supportCentre for Human-Centred Computing This is your opportunity to engage directly with experts and the latest innovations from the AdSoLve project (https://adsolve.github.io), a major UKRI and RAi-funded project focused on building AI that genuinely works in complex, high-stakes domains like law and medicine. Come and hear about real-world legal use cases that explore how generative AI is being integrated into legal workflows. Discover new research that pushes legal AI past simple logic chains and into richer forms of reasoning... |
| Thu 3 Jul 2025 14:00 - 15:00 |  Seminar: Future Directions of Wireless Links: Performance, Packaging
and Integration - Professor John L. Volakis from Florida International University, USACentre for Electronics Click here to join the seminar online Summary The rapid evolution of wireless communications with potentially 3 orders of magnitude in higher data connectivity and a goal of Terabit per second speeds for wired/chip-to-chip data transfers is upon us for the next decade. These speeds are needed to enable short range (a few meters) and long-range communications (km and satellite links) for distributed systems that will realize visions for tactile internet and haptic communications, virtual... |
June 2025 | |
| Mon 16 Jun 2025 18:00 - 20:00 |  Double Book Launch:
"Learning to Listen, Listening to Learn" by Marcus Pearce and
"Understanding the Artificial Intelligence Revolution by Shalom Lappin.Centre for Human-Centred Computing Join us to celebrate the publication of two books: Marcus Pearce Learning to Listen, Listening to Learn: Music Perception and the Psychology of Enculturation Learning to listen, Listening to Learn presents a unified theory of music perception based on psychological processes of statistical learning and probabilistic prediction. It develops and evaluates a computational model of the perceptual learning underlying cultural evolution of music, accounting for the human capacity to perceive... |
| Fri 6 Jun 2025 11:00 - 12:00 | Seminar: Centre for Digital Music Seminar by Tuomas Eerola: Computational Recognition of Emotions in Music: A Meta-Analysis and Critical Review Centre for Multimodal AI QMUL, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science Centre for Digital Music Seminar Series Seminar by: Tuomas Eerola (Durham University) Date/time: Friday, 6th June 2025, 11am Location: G2, Engineering Building, Mile End Campus, Queen... |
May 2025 | |
| Thu 22 May 2025 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminar: The Leaderboard Illusion Centre for Human-Centred Computing This Thursday on 22nd May at 4-5pm (GMT), we will have an event hosted online and at the Alan Turing Institute with Shivalika Singh (Research Scientist) and Yiyang Nan (Research Scholar) from the Cohere Open Science Research Team, who will be... |
| Tue 6 May 2025 16:30 - 19:00 |  Computer Science For Fun (cs4fn) 20th anniversary CelebrationCentre for Human-Centred Computing The Computer Science for Fun Project is 20 years old! Created by Paul Curzon and the late Peter McOwan, we have been inspiring (and teaching) students, teachers and the general public about interdisciplinary computer science research since 2005, when we released and mailed out our first free magazine issue to schools and gave it away to the general public as part of our exhibit at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition that year. Join us for a celebration event at Queen Mary University of London... |
| Fri 2 May 2025 10:30 - 11:30 |  Seminar: Cyber-Prosthetics as Body-centric Electromagnetic Devices: From Structural to Metal-free Bio-integrated AntennasCentre for Electronics Online Teams Link Summary The concept of Cyber-Prosthesis redefines implantable devices not only as mechanical surrogates but also as bodycentric wireless nodes capable of sensing, storing, and transmitting biophysical information. Within this paradigm, the structural components of prosthetic implants—such as orthopedic fixtures, dental screws, stents, and heart valves—are converted into antenna systems operating in the UHF RFID band. These systems communicate through body tissues by... |
April 2025 | |
| Wed 30 Apr 2025 10:30 - 11:30 |  Seminar: Interfacing Electromagnetics With Life Sciences and Medicine: Bioelectromagnetics and brain-machine interfaces for the treatment of cognitive conditions, glaucoma, and disorders of the retinaCentre for Electronics Online Teams Link Summary Although technical challenges are still daunting, the clinical utility of neuroprosthetics has increased dramatically over the past few years. This has been accomplished through the convergence of numerous disciplines, which have individually added fundamental understanding/capabilities to systems that interface with the human body to restore senses and movement, or treat prevalent diseases that have currently no foreseeable cure. In this talk, we will cover... |
| Tue 22 - Fri 25 Apr 2025 |  Conference: IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference 2025Centre for Human-Centred Computing Hosted by Queen Mary this year, the 16th edition will focus on Sustaining Educational Excellence in Engineering: Generative AI in Enhancing Critical Thinking and Active Learning. With a diverse Organising Committee of 38 members from 13 countries and 19 institutions, the conference promises a wealth of global perspectives and expertise, fostering innovation in engineering education worldwide. Visit the IEEE EDUCON 2025 website for more details and to get involved. Dr Usman Naeem, Reader in... |
March 2025 | |
| Thu 6 Mar 2025 10:00 - 16:30 |  Turing AI Fellowship Showcase & AdSoLve Co-Creation WorkshopCentre for Human-Centred Computing We are delighted to invite you to a stakeholder workshop on Thursday 6th March, at The Alan Turing Institute to showcase our findings in the context of Prof Liakata's Turing AI fellowship. This will be a joint event with presentations from Prof. Liakata's Turing AI fellowship team on "Creating time-sensitive sensors from heterogeneous user-generated content" - the fellowship is ending in March)and a workshop themed around mental health, a major use case for the RAi UK Keystone project ... |
| Wed 5 Mar 2025 11:00 - 12:30 |  Representation learning to act and plan.
Prof. Hector Geffner, Aachen University. Centre for Human-Centred Computing Abstract: Recent developments in AI have shown the remarkable power of deep learning, deep reinforcement learning, and LLMs. The resulting systems, however, require large amounts of data, are not transparent or reliable, and struggle with structural forms of reuse and generalization. In this talk, I'll argue that these limitations can be addressed by learning suitable symbolic representations from raw data, and illustrate the approach by considering two concrete problems in the setting of... |
February 2025 | |
| Tue 4 Feb 2025 13:00 - 16:00 | Centre Away-Day. Centre for Human-Centred Computing Meeting of everyone involved in the centre to discuss strategy and culture. |