Conference Scholarships 2024-25
This year, we conducted an anonymous peer-review process and awarded two conference scholarships, providing recipients with up to £750 each to support travel, passes, and other expenses related to presenting their research at leading technology conferences
Juliette Zaccour (2nd year DPhil in Social Data Science, Oxford Internet Institute) presented her PhD thesis paper, “Access Denied: Meaningful Data Access for Quantitative Algorithm Audits”, at the CHI 2025 Conference on Human Factors in Computing — Yokohama, Japan. The paper received an “Honorable Mention” award, delivered to the top 5% of accepted papers.
Kexin Xu (DPhil Student in Medical Science) attended the International Spatial Biology Congress in The Hague, Netherlands (May 15–16), and presented her work on “Predicting Spatial Transcriptomics From Gut Histopathology Images Using Deep Learning”. The poster was selected as one of the two winners of the competition.
Emma C. Belhadfa (DPhil Candidate in Atmospheric, Oceanic & Planetary Physics, University of Oxford) presented her research on “Quantifying the Thermal-Infrared Variability Across Bennu’s Candidate Sampling Sites” at the 2025 Meteoritical Society (MetSoc) Conference in Perth, Australia. Supported by an Oxford Women in Computer Science (OxWoCS) Travel Award, her work—based on data from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission—advances understanding of how asteroid surface properties evolve over time. The conference provided a platform to share her findings with leading planetary scientists and to strengthen interdisciplinary collaborations in planetary and computer science.
Adriana Baldacchino (MSc in Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science, University of Oxford) attended the FSCD Conference and the Women in Logic Workshop with support from the Oxford Women in Computer Science (OxWoCS) Travel Award. She presented her research on Automata and Logics over Nested Data, gaining valuable experience communicating to a specialist audience and connecting with leading women in logic. The event provided an inspiring environment to exchange ideas, discuss experiences of women in mathematics and computer science, and form lasting professional connections. Adriana’s participation at FSCD deepened her research perspective and broadened her academic interests within theoretical computer science.