The Doctoral Training Network (DTN) is a network of doctoral students whose research aligns with key themes relating to the TAS Hub and Nodes. We currently have over 70 members at institutions across the UK, specialising in a range of disciplines, including computer science, engineering, robotics, health, law, politics, philosophy and music.
The DTN aims to offer a range of training activities, including seminars, workshops, summer schools and student conferences. There are opportunities to engage with other TAS Early Career Researchers, TAS research projects, industry partners. Membership is open to current PhD students from any relevant academic discipline and institution.
Activities to date include:
If you are a current PhD student, you can register to join the Doctoral Training Network here.
If you’re an academic or industry partner, you can get involved in DTN activities, for example by hosting seminars, internships or workshops.
For more information, please contact our TAS Hub Skills Manager, Alison Tebbutt (A.M.Tebbutt@southampton.ac.uk).
Our DTN Seminars are aimed at doctoral researchers and Early Career Researchers, but anyone from the TAS community is welcome to attend.
Wed 15 March, 12:00 – 17:00
Safe and Trusted AI CDT PhD Student Seminar Afternoon (in person/online)
Speakers: Nandi Schoots, Ben Batten, Richard Willis, Charles Higgins, Benedikt Brueckner, Anna Gausen, Amir Kiani, Avinash Kori.
Wed 15 February, 12:00 – 18:00
Safe and Trusted AI CDT PhD Student Seminar Afternoon
Speakers: Ben Batten, Munkhtulga Battogtokh, Anna Gausen, Elfia Bezou Vrakatseli, Alex Jackson, Mackenzie Jorgensen, Fabrizio Russo
Wed 7 December, 12:00 – 18:00
Safe and Trusted AI CDT PhD Student Seminar Afternoon
Speakers: C Henrik R Åslund, Patrick Henriksen, Aamal Hussain, Sophia Kalanovska, Hana Kopecka, Joseph Pober, Jazon Szabo, Francis Rhys Ward
Tues 22 March, 12:00 – 13:00
Seminar: Catch Me If You Can: Doping Detection in Autonomous Systems
Speaker: Professor Mohammad Mousavi, Professor of Software Engineering, King’s College London and Principal Investigator, TAS Verifiability Node.
View the recording
Tue 8 February, 13:00 – 14:00
Seminar: Incentives in Citizen-Centric AI Systems
Speaker: Dr Sebastian Stein, Associate Professor, Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton, and Co-I on TAS ARGOS Pump Priming Project
Thur 20 January, 13:00 – 14:00
Seminar: Medical Robots on the Battlefield
Speaker: Professor Burkhard Schafer, Professor of Computational Legal Theory, University of Edinburgh
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27 July 2021
Seminar: Policy issues for autonomous systems in healthcare, defence and autonomous vehicles
Speakers: Prof Mark Kleinman, Rachel Hesketh, Justyna Lisinska, King’s College London; Juljan Krause, University of Southampton
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9 June 2021
Seminar: SafeSpacesNLP (Agile Project) and ProTechThem: Socio-technical Natural Language Processing for Behaviour Classification
Speaker: Dr Stuart Middleton, University of Southampton
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26 May 2021
Web Science Institute / TAS DTN Seminar – Human Centred AI and Autonomous Systems: are they compatible?
Speakers: Professor Steven Meers, Head of AI Lab, Dstl and Professor Dame Wendy Hall, TAS Skills Director
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10 May 2021
Seminar: Human-Swarm Interaction in Uncertain Environments (TAS Agile Project)
Speaker: Dr Mohammad Divband Soorati, University of Southampton
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26 April 2021
Seminar: Autonomous systems in Defence – Military Advantage through Trustworthiness
Speakers: Dr Alec Banks, Dstl
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15 April 2021
Seminar: Chatty Car (TAS Agile Project)
Speaker: Professor Gary Burnett, University of Nottingham
30 March 2021
DTN student presentations
Talk 1: Learn by doing: what does the introduction of AI to a non-AI, role expert team do and mean?
Speaker: Shaun Lamb (University of Southampton)
Talk 2: Robotics and the Law: Towards responsible and sustainable human-robot collaboration in the case of digital manufacturing
Speaker: Natalie Leesakul (University of Nottingham)
Talk 3: Preventing AI from destroying humanity (or how to ensure value-aligned behaviour in agents)
Speaker: Jazon Szabo (King’s College London)