The inaugural ‘CRANE – NE Regional Cyber Security Seminar Series’ will be held at Northumbria on 27 March (Friday) from 10:00 – 13:00, focussing on NE universities and industries supported by CRANE (Oxford university). Please note and register, if you can. Prof Thomas Gross (Newcastle) and Dr Biju Issac (Northumbria) lead this NE regional cyber security seminar activities – say, once in two months.
It will be an hour-long research presentation with Q&A (hybrid mode, Teams link here or below), followed by introductions from 5 universities (Newcastle, Northumbria, Durham, Sunderland and Teesside) and any NE industries over the next hour, then lunch for the last hour.
Event registration link: https://crane.civi360.com/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=10
Event details:
* Seminar Title: Detection of AI-Generated Images Using Combined Uncertainty Measures and Particle Swarm Optimised Rejection Mechanism
* Speaker: Dr Rahul Yumlembam (Research Fellow), Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (Chair: Dr Biju Issac)
* Date and Time: 27 March 2026, 10:00-11:00 and 11:00-13:00 will be opportunities for introduction and lunch at the venue
* Venue (in-person): Sutherland Building, Room 026, Northumbria University, Newcastle NE1 8ST – Google Map link here.
Please share this with your fellow colleagues/contacts who may be interested, ask them to register and encourage your PhD students and ECRs who are keen to attend. Do encourage them to apply for travel bursaries here ASAP: https://www.crane.ac.uk/crane/calls-and-funding/travel-bursary/ (ideally two weeks before the event).
MS Teams Meeting details:
Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/38616455579988?p=3CpAErPCcNAYM82K09
Meeting ID: 386 164 555 799 88
Passcode: y3QR7Nu7