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Events

News

• May 2019
  
  ACL publication success
  

  A UoL paper addressing gender-related stereotype biases in machine learning models has been accepted at ACL-2019 - the premiere venue for Natural Language Processing research

• April 2019
  
  ICML 2019
  

  Two papers have been accepted at the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning.  These include one by an undergraduate AI student, based on his final year project.

• April 2019
  
  Publication success at ICALP'19
  

  The CS department has had five papers accepted for presentation at ICALP'19, to be held 8-12 July in Patras, Greece

• March 2019
  
  BCS Dissertation Award
  

  Alkmini Sgouritsa was the highly-commended runner up for the prestigious BCS Distinguished Dissertation award, for her thesis Algorithms for Game-Theoretic Environments.

• February 2019
  
  2019 Modern Law Awards
  

  A team from CS won 'Best use of technology' prize for their work in developing AI systems to analyse legal cases.

• February 2019
  
  Unilever Innovation Challenge
  

  Nachi Kaluba was the winner of the inaugural Unilever/University of Liverpoool "Getting Rid of Plastics" competition

• November 2018
  
  Best paper award at ICFEM 2018
  

  Members of the Autonomy and Verification Lab won best paper award at International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods

• June 2018
  
  Best Paper at ICALP
  

  Darek Kowalski and Miguel Mosteiro (Pace University) have been awarded the Best Paper (Track C) at ICALP 2018.

• May 2018
  
  Publication Success at IJCAI-ECAI 2018
  

  Research staff at the University of Liverpool have again had a large number of accepted papers at the 2018 IJCAI-ECIA joint conference, to be held in Stockholm, Sweden, on the July 13-19, 2018.

• May 2018
  
  Publication Success at ICALP 2018
  

  Five papers have been accepted at the 45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP) - the main conference of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS).

• April 2018
  
  REF 2021 CS panel
  

  Professor Katie Atkinson has been appointed to the Computer Science and Informatics sub-panel for REF 2021

• March 2018
  
  Faculty Learning and Teaching Award
  

  Dave Shield has won one of the 2018 Faculty Learning and Teaching Awards, for his work with electronic assessment and feedback.

• January 2018
  
  Article in VentureBeat
  

  Dr. Louise Dennis was quoted in an article in VentureBeat on `The Development of AI Ethics must keep pace with Innovation' talking about the work of the Autonomy and Verification Laboratory on the development of ethical reasoning for autonomous sys

• January 2018
  
  Communications of the ACM
  

  Othon Michail and Paul Spirakis have had their review article titled “Elements of the Theory of Dynamic Networks” published in the February issue of Communications of the ACM. The article is accompanied by a video.

• January 2018
  
  Funded PhD Studentships available for start date Oct 2018
  

  The University of Liverpool’s Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design has funding available for PhD positions from October 2018

• January 2018
  
  Nature Scientific Reports
  

  Karl Tuyls and Rahul Savani. together with collaborators at Google DeepMind and the University of Oxford, have had their paper Symmetric Decomposition of Asymmetric Games published in the prestigious journal Nature, Scientific Report

• November 2017
  
  Staff Awards 2017
  

  Dr Louise Dennis is the winner of the University's Outstanding Contribution to Public Engagement Award

• November 2017
  
  Logic Conferences at the University of Brasilia
  

  Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS),  Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods (TABLEAUX) and Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP). Clare Dixon was the programme co-chair of FroCoS.

• November 2017
  
  Discussing semantic technologies in Vienna
  

  Dr Valentina Tamma was one of the three Programme Chairs at the 16th International Semantic Web Conference in Vienna

• April 2017
  
  Best Paper nomination
  

  Daniel Claes, Frans Oliehoek, Hendrik Baier and Karl Tuyls have been nominated for the Best Paper Award at AAMAS2017

• March 2017
  
  Logic in CS 2017
  

  Liverpool will be strongly represented at the ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, with four papers being presented there.

• March 2017
  
  Best Paper at PODS 2017
  

  Liverpool authors have been awarded the best paper award at PODS 2017

• December 2016
  
  Best Student Paper at AI 2016
  

  Abdullah Alshehri was awarded the best student paper prize in the application stream of the 2016 BCS SGAI conference on AI.

• September 2016
  
  ECAI paper award
  

  Katie and Trevor were runners-up for the best paper award at ECAI 2016

• September 2016
  
  Student paper at COMMA 2016
  

  James Butterworth, recently presented a paper based on his final year project at the 2016 Computational Models of Argument conference, in Potsdam.

• August 2016
  
  Best Student Paper at TAROS 2016
  

  Eric Schneider has won the Best Student Paper prize at TAROS 2016 for his paper Evaluating Multi-Robot Teamwork in Varied Environments