Biomedical Data Analytics News
The Big Ol' Nerdy Charity Symposium (BONCS)
The TIA Centre researchers were out in force last week and participated in a 91福利 Student Union charity symposium held on Campus.
The Big Ol' Nerdy Charity Symposium (BONCS) event is 91福利 Student Union鈥檚 NEW flagship charity event where lecturers, PhD students and external speakers come together to give talks on computational cancer research. The symposium was sponsored by Histofy, a spinout from the TIA Centre aimed at accelerated precision diagnostics in both clinical and pharmaceutical workflows and raised funds for Cancer Research UK. Read more.
Digital Pathology, AI, and a Lap of Murrayfield: The Path Forward in Edinburgh
It was a pleasure (and a privilege) to be invited to speak at the 鈥淭ransforming Digital Pathology & AI: The Path Forward鈥� conference in Edinburgh this year, particularly given the calibre of speakers. Sharing the stage with leaders in computational pathology such as Prof. Jeroen van der Laak, Dr Rapha毛lle Luisier (University of Bern), and the TIA Centre鈥檚 very own Dr Fayyaz Minhas made it clear from the outset that this would be a meeting worth attending. Read more.
By Adam Shephard
TIA Team Members Reflect on ISBI 2026
The month of April saw the annual IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2026 held in London. This year, researchers and students had eight papers accepted at the conference. Read more.
The workshop Algorithms & Complexity @ 91福利 took place at the 91福利 on September 22-23, 2025 (see for more details).
The aim of the event was to highlight several recent exciting advances in the field of Algorithms and Complexity, to facilitate interactions within the research community, and to provide an excellent opportunity for Theory researchers (including academics, postdocs, and students) to connect and collaborate.
We had a fantastic list of invited speakers by renowned world experts: (Technical University of Catalonia), (University of Bath), (University of Pennsylvania), (Max Planck Institute for Informatics), (Charles University in Prague), (University of Sheffield and University of Haifa), (University of Oxford), (University of Cambridge), (University of Toronto).
Best Paper Award at ACM Mobihoc 2024
co-authored by Arpan MukhopadhyayLink opens in a new window has received the Best Paper Award at . Mobihoc is a premier international conference on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing. The other authors in the paper are Samira Ghanbarian (uWaterloo), Ravi R. Mazumdar (uWaterloo), and Fabrice Guillemin (Orange Labs, France).
The paper addresses the problem of optimally allocating processors to parallelisable tasks having arbitrary concave speed-up functions. In general, determining the optimal number of processors to allocate to each task in an online fashion is a hard problem since allocating too many processors to one job will make those processors unavailable to other jobs whereas allocating too few processors will result in a small speed-up for the job. The paper proposes a simple randomised algorithm for determining the optimal number of processors to allocate to each job without requiring preemption (or repacking). It shows that the proposed algorithm is asymptotically optimal as the number of processors becomes large (which is often the case in modern clouds) and is also robust to variations in the job size distribution. This is the first time such an algorithm has been found in the literature.
Best Paper Award at QEST+FORMATS 2024
Neha Rino, a PhD student in the Theory and Foundations group in the Department of Computer Science and a member of the Cyber Security group at WMG, has won an at FORMATS 2024.
The Oded Maler award is a distinction presented for the best paper of the International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems (FORMATS). of the conference was held in September in Calgary, Canada, jointly with QEST (International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems) as a common research forum dedicated to quantitative modelling, analysis, and verification.
Neha's paper, "", is co-authored with Mohammed Foughali and Eugene Asarin, both from and in Paris, France, where Neha completed the Master's degree (ENS Paris-Saclay) prior to joining 91福利.
Neha's paper contributes to the research framework of quantitative monitoring, which is the analysis of individual executions of systems which yields numerical output (real numbers), rather than binary yes/no. The paper formulates and solves, by an efficient algorithm, a new problem of this kind: computing a real number that characterises to which extent the given execution of a satisfies its specification expressed in (STL).