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
Science, AI, and (Video)games: An approach through decision-making research	Florian Richoux	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo	15 December
Disease understanding: Dealing with complex and unstructured big data in biomedical domain	Alejandro Rodríguez	ETSIInf, UPM	10 February
Drugs4COVID: Combining natural language processing, text mining and knowledge graphs in Health: challenges and a use case	Óscar Corcho	ETSIInf, UPM	17 February
Big Data Visualization (Visualizing large datasets in the Semantic Web)	Mariano Rico	ETSIInf, UPM	24 February
Social responsibility of new tech solutions	Barbara Hegyi	ELTE University	01 March, 19 April, 17 May
Data Management in Biomedicine	Víctor Maojo	ETSIInf, UPM	03 March
Institutional Change and Entrepreneurship	Ebru Susur	UPM	06 March, 09 May
European (digital) entrepreneurship with a Mission	Lorenzo Angeli	University of Trento	08, 14, 21, 28 March, 04, 18 April
Atmospheric Science Modelling Systems	Roberto San José	ETSIInf, UPM	10 March
Machine Learning in Computer Architecture and Systems (MLArchSys)	Thaleia Dimitra Doudali	IMDEA Software Institute	14, 21, 28 March
Technology Watch to detect opportunities for entrepreneurship	Alberto Tejero	UPM	16 March, 10 May
Neuroscience focus on Big Data	Ángel Merchán	ETSIInf, UPM	17 March
Sustainable and digitally enabled business models	Pekka Töytäri	Aalto University	20 March, 24 April
Digital business, competition and regulation	Thomas Le Texier	Université de Rennes	22 March, 06, 12, 20 April, 03 May
Cognitive Accessibility and Easy-to-Read Methodology	María del Carmen Suárez de Figueroa	ETSIInf, UPM	31 March
Data Science in the Industry and Sample Applications	Manuel Guzmán	Management Solutions	To be confirmed

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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.