Public Engagement

Barry Ryan: Presentation for a Danish High School Class visiting Edinburgh (August 2025)

Hans-Christof Gasser: Presenting and discussing my PhD project at a conference targeted towards undergraduate medical students (2025)

Justin Engelmann: ML in the “real world” - Some insights from a PhD student in medical imaging.  Guest lecture for Dr Elliot Crowley’s course “Data Analysis and Machine Learning 4 (ELEE10031)” (2024)

Justin Engelmann: received £2,200 from the CMVM travel fund to visit Dr Daniel Ferraz and colleagues in Sao Paulo, Brazil, (May 2024)

Xiao Yang Presented and discussed PhD research related to AI ethics at the AIES 2024 Doctoral Colloquium (2024)

Fiona Smith 'Creator in Residence: an exploration of multimedia approaches for public engagement'  Panel Discussion on “Transformative Spaces: Science-Art Residencies” followed by the Exhibition Opening of “The BOX” as part of the 2024 Edinburgh Science Festival, investigates the theme ‘Shaping the Future’, which showcases some of the cutting-edge science that can help us create a future that is sustainable, accessible and equal for all.   Venue: Informatics Forum and Inspace Gallery in Edinburgh. (2024)

Charlotte Merzbacher: 'S6 students (ages 9-10) in 3 primary school classes interviewed me about what it is like to be an engineer.' Engineer Day at Burnbrae Primary School (2024)

Matúš Falis: Sutton Trust Summer School - A talk for high-school students, introducing clinical natural language processing, a high level description of technical and ethical problems considered within the field, and a demonstration of models with domain background knowledge using ChatGPT. (2023)

Matúš Falis: ChatGPT: A Biomedical AI Perspective - A speaker to introduce clinical natural language processing, and a use case of ChatGPT in generating synthetic discharge summaries (2023)

Xiao Yang Coordinated and Facilitated the global participants of the Sketch group as the Society Liaison Representative, 4S (2023)

Leonardo Castorina: 'AI in Healthcare: The Next Frontier, a Biomedical Perspective' investigates the inner workings of ChatGPT and highlights issues related to its use in biomedical applications.  A series of TEDx talks on the theme of The Great Unknown.  TEDx ChatGPT   (2023)

Barry Ryan: 'Prize for ENGoGS presentation'  https://onehealthgenomics.ed.ac.uk/barry-ryan (2023)

Aryo Pradipta Gema: 'Large Language Models and its biomedical applications' with Sutton Trust Summer School at University of Edinburgh: a speaker to introduce Large Language Models and ChatGPT as well as the potential clinical use cases.

Aryo Pradipta Gema: 'ChatGPT: A Biomedical AI Perspective' at University of Edinburgh: a speaker to introduce Large Language Models and ChatGPT as well as the potential clinical use cases (2023)

Bryan Li: Alan Turing Institute 2023-2024 Enrichment Scheme Placement award (2023-2024)

Xiao Yang is an Academic Association Committee Member of AsSIST-UK, organising the bi-annual conference and ECR events (2022 to present)

Michael Stam, Leo Castorina, Natalia Szlachetka and Team: "Programming Proteins" pubic exhibition at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition (2022).

Katarzyna Szymaniak: Co-Creation Workshop with IntellSensing Lab at Newcastle University (2021)

Rayna Andreeva, Natalia Szlachetka, Katarzyna Szymaniak:  Panel participation: Women in AI event hosted by UCL (2020)

Rayna Andreeva: EDI in STEM: Race and Disability Workshop. Participation in an EDI workshop as part of the Women in STEM and CompSoc's equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) series with Dr Frantzana (2020)