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CAVES Researchers awarded funding from The Data Lab
Jan 6, 2016

Summary	CAVES Researchers awarded funding from The Data Lab.
People	Neil Urquhart Alistair Lawson
Research Areas	Software systems
Themes	AI and Technologies
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Algorithms, Visualisation and Evolving Systems

Basil Manoussos delivers Keynote at INTERPOL's DFEG2023 Conference
Aug 16, 2023

Summary	Basil Manoussos delivers Keynote at INTERPOL's Digital Forensics Expert Group [DFEG2023] Conference. Basil's keynote is drawn from his personal experience as an Expert Witness in Digital Evidence & Cyber Crime. Basil announced that DFEG2024 will take place at Edinburgh Napier University (June 2024).
People	Basil Manoussos
Themes	AI and Technologies
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Cybersecurity, IoT and Cyberphysical Systems

Basil Manoussos (Manager @ The Cyber Academy) delivers keynote at the 2019 Annual Conference of the Scottish Paralegal Association
Apr 18, 2019

Summary	Basil Manoussos, Manager of The Cyber Academy delivers keynote presentation at the Annual Conference of the Scottish Paralegal Association in Glasgow, titled "Cyber threats to law firms: Do you want to be part of the statistics?"
People	Basil Manoussos
Research Areas	Cyber-security Criminology
URL	https://twitter.com/BasilatNapier/status/1119015894179512320

Scottish Cyber Awards: Basil Manoussos (Manager of The Cyber Academy) nominated for Cyber Evangelist of the Year
Oct 10, 2018

Source	Scottish Cyber Awards Website
Summary	Basil Manoussos, the Manager of The Cyber Academy at the School of Computing is a finalist for the prestigious Cyber Evangelist of the Year (2018)
People	Basil Manoussos
URL	https://www.scottishcyberawards.co.uk/scottish-cyber-awards-2018-finalists-announced/

Big Data in Cyber Security Conference
May 31, 2018

Summary	Big Data in Cyber Security Conference held at Craiglockhart
People	Basil Manoussos
Research Areas	Cyber-security
Themes	AI and Technologies
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Distributed Computing, Networking and Security
URL	http://www.bigdataincybersecurity.com/

OSINT - Open Source Intelligence course
May 22, 2018

Summary	OSINT course delivered to Scottish Paralegal Associatio
People	Basil Manoussos
URL	https://thecyberacademy.org/events/past-events

SOCLAB Launch
Apr 11, 2018

Summary	Official launch of SOCLAB, the new SOC facility in Merchiston Campus
People	Basil Manoussos
Research Areas	Cyber-security
Themes	AI and Technologies
URL	https://thecyberacademy.org/soclab-launch

Evolutionary Robotics Research Nominated for Best Paper Award
Jul 15, 2018

Summary	Prof. Emma Hart, Dr Andreas Steyven and Prof. Ben Paechter have been nominated for a prestigious best paper award at the GECCO 18, Kyoto, Japan for new work in evolving a diverse team of swarm robots
People	Emma Hart Andreas Steyven Ben Paechter
Outputs	Evolution of a Functionally Diverse Swarm via a Novel Decentralised Quality-Diversity Algorithm
Research Areas	Optimisation and learning Evolutionary Swarm Robotics
Themes	AI and Technologies
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Algorithms, Visualisation and Evolving Systems
URL	http://gecco-2018.sigevo.org/index.html/tiki-index.php?page=HomePage

CAVES researchers have 3 papers accepted at GECCO 2017
Jul 15, 2017

Summary	Members of the CAVES research group have 3 papers accepted at the world's leading conference on Evolutionary Computing. GECCO 2017 will be held in Berlin from 15-19th July 2017. Accepted papers are: Real World Applications Track: Evolving Solution Choice and Decision Support for a Real-World Optimisation Problem. Neil Urquhart and Achille Fonzone A Hybrid Method for Feature Construction and Selection to Improve Wind-Damage Prediction in the Forestry Sector. Emma Hart, Kevin Sim, Barry Gardiner, Kana Kamimura Complex Systems TracK An Investigation of Environmental Influence on the Benefits of Adaptation Mechanisms in Evolutionary Swarm Robotics. Andreas Steyven, Emma Hart, Ben Paechter
People	Neil Urquhart Emma Hart Kevin Sim Andreas Steyven Ben Paechter
Research Areas	Optimisation and learning
Themes	AI and Technologies
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Algorithms, Visualisation and Evolving Systems
URL	http://gecco-2017.sigevo.org/index.html/Accepted+Papers

Two Napier Keynotes at IEEE BlackSeaCom 2023 (Istanbul)
Jul 6, 2023

Summary	Prof Berk Canberk and Basil Manoussos, the Cyber Academy Manager, presented two keynotes during IEEE BlackSeaCom 2023 in Istanbul.
Linked Funders	Edinburgh Napier Funded
People	Basil Manoussos Berk Canberk
Research Areas	Digital Forensics Cyber-security Smart cities
Themes	AI and Technologies
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Cybersecurity, IoT and Cyberphysical Systems
URL	https://blackseacom2023.ieee-blackseacom.org/keynotes