Workshops & Tutorials

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Workshops

Workshop 1: AI and the Future of Academic Research
Enhancing Research Productivity with GenAI

Prof. Nuwan Kodagoda

This workshop explores the integration of Generative AI tools across the academic research lifecycle. Participants will engage in hands-on sessions to learn how to leverage AI for literature synthesis, research design, and data visualization. The program also emphasizes responsible and ethical AI use.

Workshop 2: Statistical Analysis for Scientific Research
Strengthening Research Through Statistical Methods

Prof. Vasana Chandrasekara

The workshop on “Statistical Analysis for Scientific Research” is designed to equip researchers, undergraduate and postgraduate students, academics from other disciplines, and professionals with essential statistical knowledge and skills. It focuses on strengthening research quality and enabling effective dissemination of knowledge through accurate interpretation and visualizations.

Workshop 3: AI in Healthcare: Human Expertise and Machine Intelligence
Integrating AI with Clinical Practice and Research

Dr. Fariba Sharifian

This workshop explores the evolving role of artificial intelligence in healthcare. It highlights how AI models and intelligent systems are transforming clinical decision-making, diagnostics, patient care, and medical research. Emphasizing the synergy between human expertise and machine intelligence, the session demonstrates how AI assists healthcare professionals. Real-world applications, ethical considerations, and future directions will be discussed to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of AI-driven healthcare innovation.

Workshop 4: Subspace Learning-Based One-Class Classification
Theory and Applications

Dr. Fahad Sohrab

This workshop introduces one-class classification (OCC), a learning paradigm for scenarios where training data are available only from a single target class, while other classes are scarce, unknown, or difficult to obtain. It discusses the limitations of traditional OCC methods, particularly in handling high-dimensional and complex data, and presents subspace learning-based OCC as an effective and principled solution. The workshop covers core theoretical foundations, optimization frameworks, and recent advances, including joint learning of subspaces and data descriptions, graph-based formulations, and multi-view extensions. Participants will gain practical insights through case studies and demonstrations, illustrating how these methods can be applied to anomaly detection and data-scarce learning problems across domains.

Tutorials

1
From Sensors to Smart Robots: AI and IoT Shaping the Future of Intelligent Systems

Resource Person

Dr. Omar Aldhaibani
Dr. Omar Aldhaibani
Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), UK
2
AI in Natural Environments

Resource Persons

Dr. Rajitha de Silva
Dr. Rajitha de Silva
University of Lincoln, UK
Dr. Namal Rathnayake
Dr. Namal Rathnayake
JAMSTEC, Japan
Ms. Prabuddhi Wariyapperuma
Ms. Prabuddhi Wariyapperuma
AgriFoRwArdS CDT, University of Lincoln, UK