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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Fellows<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please see the email below. If this is of interest to anyone, please contact Rebecca Babb directly (but also please me know). The deadline is this Friday, 18 January.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Susan<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">__________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Susan Davies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Turing University Liaison Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Web Science Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Building 32, Room 3041<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of Southampton<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Southampton SO17 1BJ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">T 023 8059 3523<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">M 07768 266464<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Opportunity:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), with Dstl assistance, are seeking a technical Co-Chair to work with them to develop the content and participate in a workshop on RF
signal processing and Machine Learning at the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI).</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Date:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">August 10<sup>th</sup> – 16<sup>th</sup>, Macau, China (the exact dates of the workshop have not been agreed and subject to the workshop proposal being accepted)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Description:
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">NRL’s goal is to organise a conference workshop that brings together researchers from the RF Signal Processing and Machine Learning (ML) communities, showcase
state-of-the-art ML approaches applicable in the RF domain, and provide a forum for discussing cross-disciplinary ideas to address present and future challenges. Dstl will provide a bursary to cover travel, accommodation and conference fees for the Co-chair.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Areas of academic expertise sought include ML for blind channel and signal characterization; source separation; RF signal
classification; cognitive radio communications (e.g. optimization of spectrum usage dynamics and spectrum access control); RF-based geolocation; topology and structural properties of (cognitive) radio networks; Distributed multi-agent learning in collaborative
autonomous systems; Reinforcement learning in wireless networks; Privacy-preserving ML for cognitive radio communications (e.g. in 5G cellular networks).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Academics with expertise in these areas are strongly encouraged to get in touch, even if they cannot assist with this opportunity, as
Dstl will be offering more opportunities to collaborate in this area. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Contact for more information:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Rebecca Babb, Programme Manager – Defence and Security,
<a href="mailto:rbabb@turing.ac.uk">rbabb@turing.ac.uk</a>. <b><span style="color:black">Deadline: 18<sup>th</sup> January 2019.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6">Rebecca<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">__________________________</span></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr Rebecca Babb</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><br>
Programme Manager - Defence and Security<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="mailto:rbabb@turing.ac.uk">rbabb@turing.ac.uk</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">02038623361<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The Alan Turing Institute<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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