(AGENPARL) – ESCH-SUR-ALZETTE mar 13 giugno 2023

After an introduction by Prof. Simone Niclou, Vice rector for Research, who thanked the organisers for this great initiative and underlined the many challenges to face in the future, Prof. Stephanie Kreis, Head of the Doctoral School, gave an overview and shared key figures about the school. More than 600 doctoral candidates are currently enrolled in the 6 programmes and supervised by 280 professors and researchers from the University of Luxembourg and partner institutions (LIST, LIH, LNS, CHL and LISER).

“The number of PhD students has grown significantly from 374 in 2017 to 605 in 2023, which demonstrates our effort to attract more students in our doctoral school. I take this opportunity to thank the DSSE team, the student representatives, the ombuds team, the council, the coordinators and all the supervisors for their great work”, comments Prof. Kreis.

Then, each programme was presented with its own specificities by the Programmes Coordinators, respectively

• Prof. Peter Ryan, coordinator of the Doctoral programme in Computer Science and Computer Engineering,  
• Prof. Daniel Abankwa, coordinator of the Doctoral programme in Systems and Molecular Biomedicine,  
• Prof. Susanne Siebentritt (in replacement of Prof. Thomas Schmidt, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Physics and Materials Science) and Emmanuel Defay from the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)  
• Prof. Norman Teferle, coordinator of the Doctoral programme in Engineering Sciences,  
• Prof. Stéphane Bordas, coordinator of the Doctoral programme in Computational Sciences, recently renamed as Doctoral programme in Complex Systems Science  
• Prof. Gabor Wiese, coordinator of the Doctoral programme in Mathematics and Applications

The event was concluded by a keynote speech from Nell Watson, interdisciplinary researcher in emerging technologies such as machine vision and AI ethics. As IEEE Ethics Maestro, Chair IEEE’s ECPAIS Transparency Experts Focus Group, and Vice Chair of P7001 Transparency of Autonomous Systems committee on A.I. Ethics & Safety, Nell is engineering mechanisms into AI to help safeguard algorithmic trust. During the speech, Nell Watson shared her thoughts about chat GPT, machine learning and visualisation technologies.

A networking cocktail brought the evening to a pleasant close during which participants could exchange and find potential collaborations.

Fonte/Source: https://wwwfr.uni.lu/index.php/fstm/actualites/doctoral_school_in_science_and_engineering_exchanges_among_peers