Lewys Brace is a Senior Lecturer in Computational Social Science and Co-Director of the University of Exeter's Q-Step Centre, where he specialises in data science, artificial intelligence, extremism, terrorism, cybercrime, security, and Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT).  His research currently focuses on online extremist radicalisation and the development of computational research methods for the social sciences and… Continue reading CAISS Autumn/Winter talk series: Dr Lewys Brace

Talk title: Mobile Phone Data Reveal the Effects of Violence on Internal Displacement Abstract: Nearly 50 million people globally have been internally displaced due to conflict, persecution, and human rights violations. However, the study of internally displaced persons (IDPs) --- and the design of policies to assist them --- is complicated by the fact that IDPs are… Continue reading CAISS Autumn/Winter talk series: Mobile Phone Data Reveal the Effects of Violence on Internal Displacement by Assistant Professor Xiao Hui Tai

Come see the CAISS team and their work on display at the 4th International Behavioural and Social Sciences in Security Conference (BASS24), which will be held at the University of St Andrews, (Scotland, UK), 16-18 July 202. CAISS scientist, Dr Joe Pearson, will present his work on "Examining the Effect of AI and Human Guidance on Human… Continue reading CAISS in the BASS, Scotland

CAISS will be in attendance at IC2S2 2024 (July 17-20), this year in Philadelphia, to present some of the work it has done in in the last few years. Dr Matthew Asher will present his work on linguistic analysis for academic literature reviews. CAISS will also have a poster on the assessment of political orientation… Continue reading CAISS packed for Philadelphia

CAISSathon (new Date and Location) The CAISS hub, supported by DSTL, The Alan Turing Institute, Lancaster University and Defence AI Center, is proud to announce the first CAISSathon. Theme of the event: Explainability The CAISSathon will bring together individuals from government, academia and industry to brainstorm and engineer potential solutions. Researchers will have an opportunity… Continue reading CAISSathon: Explainability

!! Please note - this talk has been brought forward by 1 week. !! Dr Victoria Nockles, Alan Turing Institute – subject: Deepfakes. CAISS are delighted to host a talk from Dr Victoria Nockles on “Space safety and resilience in an adversarial context.”  Please feel free to forward this invite to anyone you think may… Continue reading CAISS Autumn/Winter Series Talks: Deepfakes by Dr Victoria Nockles

PLEASE NOTE THERE HAS BEEN A CHANGE OF TIME FOR THIS TALK December 3rd 12:00pm For the third talk in our series CAISS are delighted to welcome Dr Alex Hardy, Liverpool University.   This talk examines Russian digital diplomacy prior to 2022 and the full-scale war in Ukraine. It focuses on messaging toward the Baltic states… Continue reading CAISS Autumn/Winter Series Talk: Disinformation in Estonia by Dr Alex Hardy

“Harnessing the Power of AI for Defence and Security” which will include discussion of the AI Paradox by Professor Steve Meers, a Fellow at Dstl specialising in the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning to defence and security challenges.  He provides expert advice at the highest levels within the Ministry of Defence regarding the… Continue reading CAISS Autumn/Winter talk: Harnessing the Power of AI for Defence and Security by Professor Steven Meers

Rob is co-founder and CEO of Cosimmetry Ltd, with 30 years of experience combining human wisdom with logic, data, modelling and AI to support complex decisions. His interests and expertise lie in the science and art of making better-informed, more-rigorous decisions on complex challenges. Rob’s career began as an engineer, building computer models to improve… Continue reading CAISS Autumn/Winter talk: : “Human-Centred AI: helping humans to make wiser decisions under deep uncertainty” by Rob Solly