Based on the famous TechMeetup format, this meetup will give you deeper insights into mobile technology as well as allow to network with like-minded people over some beer and pizza.

Informatics Ventures, Informatics Intern West and GU Tech Society welcome students, graduates, academia and people from the local industry to come to our monthly Mobile Apps Group Meetup at the School of Computing Science UofG.

Schedule

• 6.00pm - registration

• 6.15pm - pizza & drinks

• 6.45pm - talks & discussions

• 7.30pm - networking

• 9.00pm - close

Speakers

Mattias Rost

HCI researcher and programmer, at the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow.

Before coming to Glasgow he was a PhD student at Mobile Life Centre and SICS. He defended his PhD thesis “Mobility is the Message: Experiments with Mobile Media Sharing” at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University.

His research interests are mobile, social, and location based services, where he designs, builds, and studies these systems to understand them in use. Following from the work in his thesis, he has a particular interest in media sharing, and what it is people are expressing and communicating when communicating using technology.

Dyaa Albakour

Post-doctoral researcher in the Terrier Information Retrieval research group within the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow.

Under supervision of Dr. Iadh Ounis and Dr. Craig Macdonald, he is currently working on the Integrated Multimedia City Data project in the newly established Urban Big Data Centre (ubdc.ac.uk).

Dyaa specialises in Information Retrieval (IR). Recently, with colleagues working on the EU FP7 SMART project, he has been involved in developing new methods for information access in smart cities. This includes event retrieval models from social and sensor streams, and venue suggestion models that harness location-based social networks, such as FourSquare. This work has resulted in the "Entertain Me" mobile app, which employs a probabilistic model to suggest personalised and popular venues for users to visit in the near future.

Dyaa also serves on the committee of the Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG) at the British Computer Society (BCS). He has been involved in organising the annual Search Solutions conference in London (2012, 2013 and 2014). Last year, he also co-organised the Information Access in Smart Cities (i-ASC 2014) workshop in Amsterdam in conjunction with ECIR 2014.

Joan Kangro

CEO, Co-founder of Gym Diary

Joan Kangro is a CEO and co-founder of a start-up called Gym Diary (gymdiary.eu). He developed the app, together with a physiotherapist and a designer, which helps people to improve their workout efficiency, track their trainings and observe progress. At the moment, Gym Diary is in beta phase and looking for a seed investment to expand.

Joan is a 2nd year mechatronics student at University of Glasgow. He has been a CEO of the best student company of Estonia and he enjoys creating new products that create some extra value for people. He is also a member of Glasgow University Formula Student team, Glasgow University basketball team and occasionally takes part in the chess society.

We hope to see all you soon!