The Crime and Security Research Institute were honoured to welcome Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner of Specialist Operations, Mr Neil Basu to Cardiff to deliver the Institute’s inaugural Distinguished Lecture.

CSRI’s Federico Cerutti presented the paper “A Tool to Highlight Weaknesses and Strengthen Cases: CISpaces.org”, co-authored by Timothy Norman and Alice, at ‘JURIX 2018’. JURIX is the 31st international conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, hosted by the Faculty of Law and the department of Artificial Intelligence

The CSRI team were recently joined by Eliot Higgins and Donara Barojan from Bellingcat and the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFR Lab), who led a fascinating workshop on Open Source investigations.

Academics at the Crime and Security Research Institute have conducted the first independent academic evaluation of Automated Facial Recognition (AFR) technology across a variety of major policing operations.

The Cardiff Model for Violence Prevention, pioneered by Professor Jonathan Shepherd, has been primed for roll out by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

DAIS Research Student Dave Braines from IBM Research UK presented his paper ‘Multimodal Explanations for AI-based Multisensor Fusion’ at the NATO SET-262 RSM on Artificial Intelligence for Military Multisensor Fusion Engines in Budapest, Hungary.

Dr Helen Innes and Diyana Dobreva will be presenting their paper ‘Heroes & Villains: Social Media Misinformation Following the 2017 Terror Attacks’ at the 6th Military Psychology Conference on 8th November at The Ark Conference Centre in Basingstoke. 

The crime & Security Institute’s (CSRI) Federico Cerutti will present the paper “A General Approach to Reasoning with Probabilities” at the 16th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Tempe, Arizona, one of the most prominent venues for research in Artificial Intelligence.

Leading counter-terrorism experts offer new communications guidance for authorities to better manage the impacts of terror attacks

CSRI Co-Director Prof Alun Preece is in Arlington, Virginia, USA as a co-organiser of the AAAI Fall Symposium on "Artificial Intelligence in Government and Public Sector” 

The US Bureau of Justice Assistance have awarded funding to a consortium of Public Safety and Public Health Information-sharing partnerships in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to implement the ‘Cardiff Model’ of violence prevention.

Crime and Security Research Institute PhD student Chris Simpkin attended the Eighth International Conference on Advanced Collaborative Networks, Systems and Application in Venice, Italy.

Dave Braines recently presented to the Machine Learning, Data Analytics and Modeling - DATAM18 at CCS18 conference in Thessaloniki, Greece.

CSRI’s Federico Cerutti presented the paper “CISpaces.org: from Fact Extraction to Report generation” at the 7th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument.