06.02.2025

SAINTS CDT at the Safety Critical Systems Symposium SSS’25

This week, 4 to 6 February 2025, postgraduate researchers and some of the academic team from SAINTS attended the Safety Critical Systems Symposium SSS’25 which this year was held in York. The symposium featured submitted papers, keynote presentations, exhibition and poster sessions which explored and presented the latest developments in applied system safety.  

As part of the Symposium’s ‘5 minute pitch’, some of our SAINTS postgraduate researchers presented their work. Shaun Feakins spoke about ‘Safety Critical Training Data? Searching for Legal Obligations’; Suemaiya Zaman’s presentation was titled, ‘Balancing Safety and Innovation: Deployment Challenges for Drone Base Stations in Beyond 5G Communication’ and Prenika Anand won the top prize for her talk on ‘AI-led Triage Models for Skin Cancer’. Talking about her contribution she said:

“I spoke about AI-led Triage Models for Skin Cancer: System Safety Considerations for Diagnostic Reliability. It’s a coincidence that this conference coincided with World Cancer Day (Feb 4). Melanoma is the 5th most common in the UK and AI holds great promise in supporting decision-making tools for early diagnosis.”

SAINTS Director, Professor Ibrahim Habli gave an overview of our CDT and its focus on lifelong safety assurance of increasingly autonomous AI systems in dynamic and uncertain contexts.

While Professor John McDermid (SAINTS CDT Partnerships co-lead) was the Keynote and talked about AI safety and security.

Find out more about the Safety Critical Systems Symposium SSS’25.