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UCD STEM Early Career Researchers Symposium
We were delighted with the turn-out for the 2024 UCD STEM Early Career Researchers Symposium that took place on 4th June 2024. The STEM Early Career Researchers Symposium is an annual meeting which aims to bring together the diverse and vibrant community of Research Graduate students at UCD who are registered in the College of Science and the College of Engineering and Architecture, in a welcoming, friendly, inclusive and accessible poster presentation session which took place in the Astra Hall at UCD.
134 poster presentations were on display with fifteen from the School of Computer Science. Although awards went to students in other schools, it was a very worthwhile and enjoyable day for those who took part.
The CS participants were -
This event is a platform for research students to engage with fellow staff members, seeking valuable comments and advice to enhance the quality of their research work. It also offers a unique opportunity for staff and other participants to gain insights into the ongoing research work within the school.
Graduate Research in UCD School of Computer Science
The School currently has over 100 PhD and MSc Research students, located in one of our research centres such as the (opens in a new window)Insight Centre for Data Analytics or our Centres for Research Training: (opens in a new window)ML-Labs and (opens in a new window)d-real. Many members of faculty are active in supervising PhD students. More info here https://www.ucd.ie/cs/study/researchdegrees/
Why do a PhD?
Last year we recorded some of our students talking about their PhD studies. (opens in a new window)Watch it here (2 mins 40 seconds)
PhD graduate interview
In December 2023 UCD CS PhD graduate (opens in a new window)Fergal Reid VP of AI at Intercom came back to UCD to talk to a recent PhD graduate (opens in a new window)Rian Dolphin. In their wide ranging and fascinating conversation (opens in a new window)Fergal talked about some skills he has found useful from his PhD studies, (opens in a new window)how Intercom is using ChatGPT to do summarizations and (opens in a new window)how AI will change the workplace among other topics. See our YouTube channel for (opens in a new window)the full video.
Published July 30 2024