Past Events

May 2026

Tue 19 May 2026
13:00 - 14:00
Seminar: Inter-Group Presentation Workshop: Daniel Gill: Identification of Differences in Haptic Interaction for Neurodivergent Adults.
Centre for Human-Centred Computing

Speaker: Daniel Gill (Website). Bio: Daniel is a PhD candidate and researcher at Queen Mary University of London, working on robotics and psychology. He aims to understand where neurodivergent people have different sensory and motor experiences...
Wed 13 May 2026
13:00 - 14:00
Seminar: What I learned from CS336: A deep dive into the modern LLMs
Centre for Human-Centred Computing

For this week's CogSci Seminar, we will be returning to an in-person format with our own PhD student, Yuan Liang talk about what she learned from the Stanford CS336 module, which will include a deep dive into the modern LLMs regarding the details of...
Wed 6 May 2026
13:00 - 14:00
Seminar: Behavioural signals for frictionless authentication: from controlled experiment to deployment
Centre for Human-Centred Computing

Title: Behavioural signals for frictionless authentication: from controlled experiment to deployment Speaker: Alexandra Uma, Zally (Alexandra is a past PhD student in Massimo's group) Abstract: Every interaction with a device leaves...

April 2026

Tue 21 Apr 2026
11:00 - 00:00
Seminar: Inter Group PhD Presentation Workshop. RAVE: Retrieval and Scoring Aware Verifiable Claim Detection
Centre for Human-Centred Computing

This wee's speaker is Yufeng Li, a third-year PhD student in the Cogsci Group working with Arkaitz, who will be presenting her recently accepted paper at ICASSP ????to EECS PhD students. Snacks and Sandwiches will be available at the end of the...
Wed 15 Apr 2026
13:00 - 14:30
Seminar: Faithful Contouring: Near-Lossless 3D Voxel Representation Free from Iso-surface.
Centre for Human-Centred Computing

For this week's CogSci Seminar, Yihao Luo from Imperial will present his recent CVPR paper titled "Faithful Contouring: Near-Lossless 3D Voxel Representation Free from Iso-surface." Yihao is a 3rd-year PhD student at Imperial, working on high...
Wed 1 Apr 2026
13:00 - 14:00
Seminar: RAVE: Retrieval and Scoring Aware Verifiable Claim Detection
Centre for Human-Centred Computing

For this week's CogSci Seminar, our own PhD student, Yufeng Li, will present her recent paper "RAVE: Retrieval and Scoring Aware Verifiable Claim Detection". Yufeng is a student of Arkaitz working on fact-checking.

March 2026

Wed 18 Mar 2026
13:00 - 14:00
Seminar: Making Dialogue Grounding Data Rich: A Three-Tier Data Synthesis Framework for Generalized Referring Expression Comprehension
Centre for Human-Centred Computing

In this week's CogSci Seminar our own PhD Student Juexi Shao will present his recent paper on "Making Dialogue Grounding Data Rich: A Three-Tier Data Synthesis Framework for Generalized Referring Expression Comprehension". Juexi is a PhD student of...

January 2026

Wed 28 Jan 2026
13:00 - 14:00
Seminar: CogSci seminar series: "From Helpful to Valuable: What Changed and Why It Matters"
Centre for Human-Centred Computing

A few years ago, most chatbots were scripted FAQs that struggled outside the happy path. Today, assistants can understand free form questions, ask clarifying follow ups, ground answers in trusted information, and take useful actions, while knowing...
Wed 28 Jan 2026
13:00 - 14:00
Seminar: From Helpful to Valuable: What Changed and Why It Matters
Centre for Human-Centred Computing

For this week's CogSci seminar, we are pleased to have a guest speaker, Ayodele Olabiyi (a former MSc student of Yuntao), who leads the Digital Care Data and AI team at Vodafone AI. He will share his real-world experience in deploying the GenAI...