Seven CDT PhD Students Reach Major Milestone!

We are thrilled to announce that seven PhD students from the Horizon CDT 2020 cohort have achieved a major milestone by successfully submitting their PhD theses!

This marks the culmination of years of hard work, perseverance, and groundbreaking research. These students have delved into diverse and impactful topics, pushing the boundaries of innovation and knowledge. Now, they eagerly await their viva dates, which will be the final step in their PhD journey.

Meet Our PhD Candidates:

Dan Heaton – “Agency, Trust and Blame in Decision-Making Algorithms: An Analysis of Twitter” – supervised by Joel Fischer, Jeremie Clos, Elena Nichele

Guido Salimbeni – “Decoding AI Art: From Motivation to Manifestation” – supervised by Steve Benford, Sarah Martindale, Stuart Reeves

James Williams – “A Framework for Curating Personalised Leisure Walking Experiences” – supervised by James Pinchin, Gary Priestnall, Adrian Hazzard, Sarah Sharples

Joshua Duvnjak – “The Use of Personalisation within Manufacturing Environments” – supervised by Robert Houghton, Ayse Kucukyilmaz, Sarah Sharples

Kathryn Baguley – “Development and Evaluation of a framework to support accountability in Automated Decision-Making (ADM)” – supervised by Richard Hyde and Joel Fischer

Muhammad Suhaib Shahid – “Towards Vocal Tract MRI Synthesis from Facial Signals Using External to Internal Correlation Modelling” – supervised by Gleb Yabukov, Andrew French, Michel Valstar

Ruairi Blake – “On the Role and Use of Information in Ethical Consumerism” (submitted to DMU) – supervised by Lipika Deka, Laurence Brooks, John Harvey

 

We are incredibly proud of their achievements and can’t wait to see the impact their research will have in the academic community and beyond.

Best of luck to all our candidates!

 

Originally posted at https://cdt.horizon.ac.uk/2024/10/02/seven-cdt-phd-students-reach-major-milestone/