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
Accessibility in Video Games	Loïc Martínez	ETSIInf, UPM	03 December
From Artificial Intelligence to Network Medicine: New ways to understand and treat diseases	Alejandro Rodríguez	ETSIInf, UPM	06 February
Neuroscience focus on Big Data	Ángel Merchán	ETSIInf, UPM	13 February
The Scientific Paper of the Future: Best Practices for Sharing Data, Software and Methods when writing Research Reports	Daniel Garijo	ETSIInf, UPM	20 February
Cognitive Accessibility and Easy-to-Read Methodology	María del Carmen Suárez de Figueroa	ETSIInf, UPM	27 February
IMPACT Lab	Alberto Tejero Barbara Hegyi Alvaro Pina Stranger Rui Quaresma Mladen Čudanov	ETSIInf, UPM Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary Université de Rennes, France Universidade de Évora, Portugal Univerzitet u Beogradu, Serbia	04 March, 29 April
Real World Data: A Game-changer for Life Sciences. Challenges and insights in building a Global Trial Optimisation Network	Brecht Claerhout	TriNetX	06 March
From Generative AI to Agentic AI: A Paradigm Shift	Roberto Lara	Innova-tsn	13 March
Big Data Visualization (Visualizing large datasets in the Semantic Web)	Mariano Rico	ETSIInf, UPM	20 March
Change Management & Leading Turnarounds in Entrepreneurial Ventures and Small Businesses	Daniel F. Duran	Whittier College, USA	09, 13, 16 April
What we do in the shadows (of an AI black box)	Adrián Carrasco	Inetum (Spain)	17 April
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI) and model interpretability	Manuel Guzmán Ernestina Menasalvas	Partner Management Solutions ETSIInf, UPM	22 April
Data Management in Biomedicine	Víctor Maojo	ETSIInf, UPM	08 May
Atmospheric Science Modelling Systems	Roberto San José	ETSIInf, UPM	12 May

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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.