WPCCS'23 Winter Schedule Draft

The Warwick Postgraduate Colloquium in Computer Science (WPCCS) 2023 Winter will be held on Monday 11th December 2023, in the Mathematical Sciences Building, University of Warwick.

If you have any queries regarding the scheduling of your presentation, please get in touch with wpccs@warwick.ac.uk.

8:30-9:30	Registration
9:30-10:00	Guest Talk: Dr Ayşe Sunar (MSB 0.07)
10:00-10:15	Break
	Computational Biology I MSB 0.08	Artificial Intelligence I MSB 0.07
10:15-10:30	Integrating Social Network Analysis and Deep Learning for Improved Prediction of Molecular Pathways in Colorectal Cancer Neda Zamanitajeddin	Causal Optimal Transport of Abstractions Yorgos Felekis
10:30-10:45	Decoding Lung Adenocarcinoma: A Generalizable Growth Patterns Classification Model Using H&E Whole Slide Histology Images Arwa Alrubaian	Stepping into the boardroom: A novel AI-enabled method for identifying collective leadership Daniela Valdes
10:45-11:00	Spatio-Temporal application of Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks on cell surface data Edward Offord	Betting on what is neither verifiable nor falsifiable. Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir
11:00-11:15	Coffee Break
	Theory and Foundations MSB 0.08	Machine Learning MSB 0.07
11:15-11:30	Constant-depth circuits vs. monotone circuits Bruno Pasqualotto Cavalar	Source Code Plagiairsm Detection with Transformers Fahad Ebrahim
11:30-11:45	Simple Programs with NP-hard Termination Henry Sinclair-Banks	Learning stable allocation in convex cooperative game under uncertainty Nam Tran
11:45-12:00	Fault-Tolerant Kernel Oracles Peter Strulo	Enhancing Personalization with Graph Neural Networks in Federated Learning Yan Qian
12:00-12:15	Zero Knowledge Proofs For All Of DP Ari Biswas	Distributionally Robust Routing Problems Patrick O’Hara
12:15-12:30	Distance-based robustness for Signal Temporal Logic Neha Rino	Efficient low-bit quantization for Graph Neural Networks Rustam Guliyev
12:30-13:30	Lunch (MSB Atrium)
	PGCert Transferable Skills in Science (MSB Atrium)
	Poster Sessions at Lunch (MSB Atrium)
	Machine Learning MSB Atrium	Artificial Intelligence MSB Atrium
	NLP Approaches to Detect Threatening and Abusive Language Used in Communications With Victims Sahrish Khan	Leveraging ChatGPT in Pharmacovigilance Event Extraction: An Empirical Study Zhaoyue Sun
	Reconstructing Training Data from Trained Neural Networks Andrei Codreanu	Towards Real-Time Sign Language Recognition and Translation on Edge Devices Shiwei Gan
		Accurate segmentation of nuclear instances using a double-stage neural network Kesi Xu
	Computational Biology MSB Atrium	Computer Security MSB Atrium
	Multi-objective optimization for high-definition transcranial electrical stimulation of the human brain Mo Wang	Revealing Ongoing Sensor Attacks in Industrial Control System via Setpoint Modification Zhihao Dai
13:30-14:00	Guest Talk: Dr Amir Shirian (MSB 0.07)
14:00-14:15	Break
	Computational Biology II MSB 0.08	Artificial Intelligence II MSB 0.07
14:15-14:30	Associations of Dietary Patterns with Brain Health from Behavioral, Neuroimaging, Biochemical, and Genetic Analyses Ruohan Zhang	Clairvoyance Via Network Statistics Rosco Hunter
14:30-14:45	Robust and Efficient Detection of Mitotic Figures Mostafa Jahanifar	Explaining Diffusion Models Bhushan Atote
14:45-15:00		Enlightenment Improves Performance Minghao Xu
15:00-15:15		First-view pedestrian trajectory prediction based on diffusion modeling Boyang Fu
15:15-15:30	Coffee Break
	High Performance Computing MSB 0.08	Artificial Intelligence III MSB 0.07
15:30-15:45	OP-PIC – An Unstructured Mesh Particle in Cell Domain Specific Language Zaman Lantra	Developing a Benchmark for Evaluation Hallucination in Multimodal Large Language Models Kaiwen Zuo
15:45-16:00	Automatic Synthesis of Structured-mesh Solvers on FPGAs using High-Level Abstractions Beniel Thileepan	A Closer Look at Data Overlap in the Difficulty of Unlearning Kairan Zhao
16:00-16:15	GNN Embedding for taskflow allocation in MEC environment Xuanyu Liu	FLAIM: AIM-based Synthetic Data Generation in the Federated setting Samuel Maddock
16:15-16:30		NLP-based Social Media Cyberthreat Intelligence Framework for early prediction of Zero-day Attacks Majed Albarrak
16:30-16:45	Closing including Prize Announcement (MSB 0.07)

Computational Biology I

Artificial Intelligence I

Theory and Foundations

Machine Learning

Machine Learning

Artificial Intelligence

Computational Biology

Computer Security

Computational Biology II

Artificial Intelligence II

High Performance Computing

Artificial Intelligence III