Seminars

The PhD in Software, Systems and Computing programme includes specialized seminar-based research training in the programme field.

The list of seminars shall be established every academic year in order to provide students with an academic offer that is open and aligned with the educational demands of the market and state of the technology at all times. These seminars will be taught by reputed specialists on particular topics, guest lecturers from both national and international higher education institutions, and occasionally, from companies conducting research.

The seminars scheduled to date for the current academic year are listed below; this provisional list will be updated with other seminar proposals throughout the year.

The specified seminar dates and times are tentative and subject to possible last-minute changes or cancellations due to guest lecturer scheduling issues.

Seminars:

This table shows the proposed Seminars for this Academic Year
TITLE	LECTURER	AFFILIATION	DATE
Synthetic Users and Personas	Elena Villalba Jose María Barambones	ETSIInf, UPM	08, 22 November
HCI & videogames	Javier Arturo Michel	Univesrity of Technology, Arts and Design (Spain)	15 November
Applying UCD in a real company	Claudia Casanova-Soler	Inetum (Spain)	29 November
Design Systems	Tomás Antón	Unicaja Banco (Spain)	13 December
Disease understanding: Dealing with complex and unstructured big data in biomedical domain	Alejandro Rodríguez Lucía Prieto	ETSIInf, UPM	07 February
Big Data Visualization (Visualizing large datasets in the Semantic Web)	Mariano Rico	ETSIInf, UPM	14 February
Cognitive Accessibility and Easy-to-Read Methodology	María del Carmen Suárez de Figueroa	ETSIInf, UPM	21 February
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI) and model interpretability	Manuel Guzmán Ernestina Menasalvas	Partner Management Solutions ETSIInf, UPM	28 February
The Scientific Paper of the Future: Best Practices for Sharing Data, Software and Methods when writing Research Reports	Daniel Garijo	ETSIInf, UPM	07 March
Neuroscience focus on Big Data	Ángel Merchán	ETSIInf, UPM	14 March
Development and industrialization of AI-based solutions under MLOPs/LLLMOPs principles	José Ignacio Barnaldo Elena Villalba	AI Solutions & Strategy Manager, Innova-tsn ETSIInf, UPM	21 March
Drugs4COVID: Combining natural language processing, text mining and knowledge graphs in Health: challenges and a use case	Óscar Corcho	ETSIInf, UPM	CANCELLED

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Students who would like to attend a seminar must register by using the form no later than five days before the start of the seminar.

Students are advised that they should attend at least one seminar per semester (on average). The number of seminars offered, and total number of seminar hours, shall vary each year depending on the availability of guest lecturers, although there shall be a guaranteed offer of at least 10 seminars per year. To pass a seminar, attendance is mandatory.