Abstract: The rapid increase of global mean temperature and unprecedented heat events require new approaches to support and monitor the climate adaptation and heat resilience of cities. Crafting effective plans necessitates accurate data and tools that adapt to the ever-changing dynamics of urban environments.

This presentation will show the recent advances in diagnosing and treating accurately, city by city, overheated urban areas (in time and space) where climate adaptation should be prioritised to promote heat resilience. The research aims to fully integrate crowdsourced urban climate observations (citizen weather stations) with satellite and remote sensing data using machine learning techniques to generate high spatio-temporal resolution observations of urban atmospheric states and dynamics. The results will support the development of an urban heat diagnosis tool with global applicability to enable insight and evidence-supported actions to promote zero-carbon and sustainable cooling at different scales. This research is part of the Future of Cooling Programme of the Oxford Martin School.



Bio: Jesus Lizana is Associate Professor in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, with a unique experience profile in architecture and engineering. His research focuses on the cross-disciplinary challenges to support the transition towards zero carbon climate-responsive buildings.

At Oxford, Lizana is engaged in many research initiatives and has received several prestigious and extensive grants, including a Marie Curie Fellowship. He leads the research on Zero-Carbon Space Heating and Cooling at ZERO Institute and supports the interdisciplinary research in the Future of Cooling Programme of the Oxford Martin School. Alongside his academic career, Lizana also serves as a consultant on many building energy-related projects, data science, and sustainable cooling across various global locations, including the United Kingdom, India, Spain, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia.

Lizana received his PhD in low-carbon buildings at the University of Seville in Spain after completing a BSc in Architecture and an MSc in Building Engineering. Previously to his appointment at Oxford, he has lectured and conducted research at the University of Seville (Spain), the University of Edinburgh (Scotland), the Technical University of Munich (Germany), Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal), and the Spanish National Research Council (Spain).



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Abstract: Personalization is to provide information or services that are tailed to individual users. User profiling is a critical component of Personalization. How to profile users’ preferences, interests, and human level attributes such as personality accurately to facilitate effective personalization remains an open research topic. This talk will present our recent work in profiling information system users and literature characters for personalized item recommendation and dialogue generation. We proposed novel data mining and machine learning techniques including reinforcement learning, graph learning, Natural Language Processing on various types of modality data including rating, tags, review, item images, temporal information, and relations. Experiments were conducted on large-scale real-world datasets from online communities such as IMDB and Amazon and literature books.



Bio: Dr. Huizhi (Elly) Liang is a senior Lecturer at the School of Computing, Newcastle University, UK. Huizhi received her PhD degree from the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Before joining Newcastle University in 2022, she worked at University of Reading, LIP6, Pierre et Marie Curie University and French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), University of Melbourne, and Australian National University. Her research interests include Data Mining, Machine Learning, NLP, Dialogue Agents, Personalization, Recommender Systems.



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Hi everyone!

We hope you've had a great break and are settled back in.



In celebration of J.R.R. Tolkien's birthday month, we'll be the Lord of the Rings films over the next three weekends! We're starting with The Fellowship of the Ring this Saturday (27th). We'll then be following it up with The Two Towers (Feb 3rd) and The Return of the King (Feb 10th). We're showing the extended versions too, so get ready for some long screenings. Each film starts at 7:30 PM in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium.



We're sure most of you are very familiar with them, but just in case, you can find a trailer below:



We can't wait to see you there, and to have another awesome year of screenings! 🙂



See you soon,

Yanni 🐋 and Ben 🐻





N.B.

1️⃣ Seats will be allocated on a first come first serve basis.

2️⃣ Sadly no food or drinks allowed in the auditorium please