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鶹ýƵվ Engineering PhD Students Research Festival - Programme

鶹ýƵվ Engineering is thrilled to invite all Engineering PhD students to the 鶹ýƵվ Engineering PhD Students Research Festival. Please see the programme below.

  • 08:45 - 09:05𲵾ٰپDz(with refreshments)
  • 09:05 - 09:10Welcome by: Andrea Franchini, PhD students Rep, Faculty of Engineering Sciences
  • 09:10 - 09:15Welcome by: Richard Bucknall Vice Dean (Research) Faculty of Engineering Sciences
  • 09:15- 09:30 Welcome and Talk 'From your PhD research to a Unicorn start-up' by Professor Philip Treleaven
  • 09:30 - 11:00 Session 1: Sustainability and safe infrastructures (10 speakers)
Session 1 Speakers

Chair: Carmine Galasso (CEGE), Philip Treleaven (CS)

SpeakerTitleDepartment
Fatima Ceballos Rodriguez-CondeConstruction of a plastic-degrading synthetic microbial communityBiochemical Engineering
Andrea FranchiniCompeting Seismic safety and sustainability goals in cable-stayed bridgesCEGE
Jose Hernandez RamirezGeographic intelligence Model on criminal groups, a case of study for cargo theft on highwaysSecurity and Crime Science
Elan MistryPhotoelectrochemical Ammonia SynthesisChemical Engineering
Jing XueEmotional textile through multisensory interaction designComputer Science
Neba C TonyPedestrian Safety in built environmentCEGE
Nuno RochaHydrogen combustion for net zero emissionsMechanical Engineering
Pooneh Shah MalekpoorSeismic stochastic slope stability analysisCEGE
Alex SebestianiNovel intensified technologies for hydrogen production from wasteChemical Engineering
Jose ConchaAdobe blocks as replacement for brick housesCEGE
  • 11:00 - 11:15 Refreshments break
  • 11:15- 11:45 Activity 1 Speed research exchange (PhD students are randomly paired and have 2 minutes to explain their research project. Afterwards, one line moves rightwards, and the activity is repeated. Five changes in total)
  • 11:45 - 13:30 Session 2: AI and advanced technologies (9speakers)
Session 2 Speakers

Chair: Emiliano De Cristofaro (CS), Aaron Finney (Chemical Engineering)

SpeakerTitleDepartment
Sergi Bray“I knew in my heart if they were real. I’m not trolling”: Testing Human Ability to Detect “Deepfake” Images of Human FacesSecurity and Crime Science
Tania MahmoodUsing Molecular Dynamics to Unpin Antibody Interactions Under High ConcentrationsBiochemical Engineering
Carlos Navarrete LeonLaboratory-based multi-contrast X-ray Imaging systemsMedical Physics and Biomedical Engineering
Matteo ErrigoAddressing operational challenges in fluidized-bed reactor operationChemical Engineering
Erin NolanInternal Dense, Continuous Granular Transport with Soft RoboticsMechanical Engineering
Zhouyang ShenA predictive model of human responses to ultrasonic tactile stimulationComputer Science
Doy KwonExtracting cybercrime from Calls for Police Service data by supervised machine learningSecurity and Crime Science
Joe WrightOffline Reinforcement Learning for rail junction prioritisationCEGE
Jitesh JoshiThermal Infrared Imaging based Extraction of Physiological SignalsComputer Science
  • 13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
  • 14:30 - 16:00 Session 3: Healthcare innovation (9 speakers)
Session 3 Speakers

Chair: Kenth Gustafsson (Biochemical Eng), Soorena Zohoori (EEE)

SpeakerTitleDepartment
Samuel WatkinDeveloping risk assessments for pathogen contamination on hospital surfacesCEGE
Jack FirthCharacterising the Immunotherapeutic Capabilities of Bacterial Outer-Membrane VesiclesBiochemical Engineering
Maryam HabibollahiA Bidirectional Active Microchannel Interface for Managing Post-Cardiac Transplant SymptomsElectronic and Electrical Engineering
Ferdinando SerenoRobust process development for protein nanoparticle-based vaccinesBiochemical Engineering
Alissa ParmenterBiomechanics of the vertebral endplate analysed using synchrotron tomography and digital volume correlation

Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering

Lucy ToddNature Inspired 3D Scaffolds to improve ex vivo T-Cell Culturing Environments for Adoptive Cell Transfer Cancer ImmunotherapyChemical Engineering
Zeena ShawaDisease Progression Modelling and Subtyping in Parkinson's DiseaseMedical Physics and Biomedical Engineering
Tigmanshu BhatnagarA novel tactile display for braille and graphics for students with visual impairmentsComputer Science
Kai MasonNeural Imaging with Electrical Impedance TomographyMedical Physics and Biomedical Engineering
  • 16:00 - 16:30 Activity 2 Bingo coffee (everyone is given a bingo card and goes around to find people who can sign each of the squares. The winner is the first person with a different signature in each square)
  • 16:30 - 17:45 Session 4: Innovation in materials(10speakers)
Session 4 Speakers

Chair: Yaan Wang (CEGE), Thomas Peach (Mech Eng)

SpeakerTitleDepartment
Gyorgy OvariElectrospun nanofiber adsorbents in bioprocessingBiochemical Engineering
Matthew PoultonStructural Integrity of GFRP Bridge Decks with Fibre MisalignmentsCEGE
Farnaz FahimiOrganic electronics for physiological measurementsElectronic and Electrical Engineering
Christian PartikAnimate linkage fabrics for a sustainable material economyMechanical Engineering
Danting ChenMetal speciation in co-processing of hazardous industrial wastes in cement kilnCEGE
Semyon BodianFunctionalised Composite Materials for Guiding Minimally-Invasive Surgical InterventionsMedical Physics and Biomedical Engineering
Rehan ShahNonlinear Mechanics of Elastic Rods Constrained to Deform on Rigid Tubular SurfacesCEGE
Alessandro RossiNanofabrication for innovative X-Ray ImagingElectronic and Electrical Engineering
Mariana Bento3D-printed Phantoms for Paediatric RadiotherapyMedical Physics and Biomedical Engineering
Wen SunMicrowave curing on reinforced concreteCEGE
  • 17:45 - 18:30 Activity 3 Collaborative research project drafting(Students are organised in round tables and try to develop a research project outline regarding one of the six 鶹ýƵվ Grand Challenges /grand-challenges/six-ucl-grand-challenges)
  • 18:30 - 21:00 Drinks reception