International Women’s Day 2025 – Accelerating change within EECS and beyond
To celebrate International Women’s Day, we’re shining a light on women in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science who have been accelerating change through their groundbreaking research, initiatives, and ambitions.
Dr Ekaterina Ivanova, Lecturer in Human Machine Interaction, created EECS Women in Higher Education Network (WHEN), a female academic network within the School. Anna Sedo, Senior Lecturer in Sound and Music Computing is now co-organising the network with her. Over the last year, they have organised several social events, talks of the invited speakers and educational events. Find out more about the network here.
Ella Cullen is studying a PhD in Computer Science at Queen Mary. She tells us about her thesis and how her research focuses improving understanding in conversation, particularly through facial expression analysis. Find out more here.
Maria Liakata, Professor in Natural Language Processing, was interviewed by the Inside Science BBC 4 Radio Programme last week to explain some aspects of the AI co-scientist, a system released by Google a few days ago that can help scientists generate, refine end evaluate research hypotheses leading to possible novel scientific discoveries. Listen to the episode here.
We caught up with Myleene, who is now in her 3rd year of studying Electrical and Electronic Engineering to find out more about her life at QM, and her career goal of developing groundbreaking tech that will improve the F1 industry. Read the full interview here.
Dr. Aisha Abuelmaatti, Lecturer in Information Technology Management, is also the Deputy Academic Head of the new Centre for Excellence in AI in Education. She introduced the university’s ambitious goals at our AI Horizons event back in December. Find out more about the Centre here.
On top of holding the title of British champion in equipped bench press, Sara Cardinale’s work explores the intersection of generative music composition, emotion-driven story telling, and human-computer co-creativity within the realms of film and video game media. Read more about her experience at EECS here.
Dr Michaela MacDonald, Senior Lecturer in Law and Technology, recently spoke to ITV News (Timestamp 2:07) about musicians’ response to government plans to allow AI to be trained on copyrighted music. Watch the interview here.
You can visit our EDI pages for more information on our School's initiatives.