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Editorial board membership and review committees
- Associate Editor of the journal Pattern Recognition
- Member of the Carnegie Trust panel of Grant Research Assessors
- Member of the EPSRC Peer Review Council (ranked in top 7% reviewers in 2016-17)
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Programme Committee membership at conferences
- FiCloud 2023 : 10th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud.
- TopoInVis 2022 : workshop on Topological Data Analysis and Visualization.
- SGAI 2021 workshop in AI for Future Digital Health (co-chair).
- SGAI 2020 workshop in AI for Future Digital Health (co-chair).
- TopoInVis 2019 : Topology-based methods in Visualisation.
- CTIC 2019 : Computational Topology in Image Context.
- MFCS 2018 : Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science.
- TopoInVis 2017 : Topology-based methods in Visualisation.
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Current membership in professional organisations
- Consultant of the IUCr commission on Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography
- Member of the European Crystallographic Association
- Member of the non-profit Computer Vision Foundation
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK
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Administrative roles at the University of Liverpool since 2017
- Director and training lead of the Doctoral Network in Artificial Intelligence for Future Digital Health
- Lead of the Intel Parallel Computing Center funded via the Big Data Center at the Berkeley lab
- Lead of the subtheme "Data-driven Materials Discovery" in the University-wide theme Digital
- Founder and organiser of the cross-departmental research network seminar MIF++
- Member of the meetings between IBM and UoL according to the strategic agreement
- Lead of the cross-departmental Special Interest Group on Machine Learning
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MSc course director in Mathematical Sciences, 2011-2013
- The MSc programme in Mathematical Sciences was under threat of closure because of a low intake when Dr Vitaliy Kurlin became the course director in August 2011.
- Indeed, in 2010 there were 2 students, the maximum over past years was 7. Another MSc programme with a similar low intake was closed down in 2011.
- The following major improvements have saved MSc in Mathematical Sciences:
- The MSc web page was completely re-designed and was regularly updated.
- All e-mail queries from potential MSc students were answered within few hours.
- An entrance exam was introduced and was quickly and electronically marked.
- New MSc students received a detailed step-by-step guide at the induction event.
- Individual meetings with the course director helped MSc students with their studies. These individual meetings were unfortunately cancelled by the new course director.
- The following facts are the real outcomes of the past hard work in 2011-2013:
- The MSc class increased from 5 in 2011 to 12 in 2012, then to 15 in 2013.
- The university has received a large revenue from these extra tuition fees: 5300 GBP per European student, 13300 GBP per overseas student in 2013.
- The proportion of MSc students who failed exams almost halved in 2013 and dropped again in 2014 with many students achieving high 70+ marks.
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Outreach activities for school children in Russia and the UK
- Taught at numerous summer schools in Russia (1996-2005) and the UK (2009-2012).
- The Distant Maths Challenge (UK) was a written competition for students of age 11-18 introduced for an objective selection of best candidates for the gifted and talented summer schools.
- The total number of written submissions increased from 24 in 2010 to 126 in 2011, however Durham has completely closed the gifted and talented programme in 2012.
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Past administrative jobs in the department in 2008-2011
- 2010-2011: supporting annual LMS-EPSRC summer symposia at Durham, responsibilities: liaison officer, maintaining PHP scripts on web pages.
- 2008-2010: organiser of the Pure Maths Colloquium in the department, responsibilities: finding speakers and arranging their visits to Durham.
- 2008-2010: DUO (Durham University On-line) contact in the department, responsibilities: quick help and advice on using our on-line tools.
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