2025 Publications

2025 Publications

Please find below a listing of some of the Horizon CDT PhD student academic publications that have been accepted/published during 2025. 


Alkhulaifi, N., et al. 2025. AutoEnergy: An automated feature engineering algorithm for energy consumption forecasting with AutoML. Knowledge-based systems Journal doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2025.114300

Alkhulaifi, N., Ismail G. D., Timothy R. C., Bowler, A.L., Pekaslan, D., Watson, N.J. and Triguero, I., 2025. Decision-Focused Learning Enhanced by Automated Feature Engineering for Energy Storage OptimisationExpert Systems With Applications, p.130554. doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2025.130554

Alagoz, B.B., Keles, C., Ates, A., Özdemir, E. and Alkhulaifi, N., 2025. Optimal deep neural network architecture design with improved generalisation for data-driven cooling load estimation. Neural Computing and Applications, pp.1-20. doi.org/10.1007/s00521-025-11212-7

Canatan, M., Alkhulaifi, N., Watson, N. and Boz, Z., 2025. Artificial Intelligence in Food Manufacturing, A Review of Current Work and Future OpportunitiesFood Engineering Reviews. doi.org/10.1007/s12393-024-09395-1

Bong, Y., Cameron, L., Wyai, G. L. C., Zaman, T., & Harvey, J. (2025, July). ‘Can My Voice Be Heard?’: Taking non-WEIRD Voices Seriously in Digital Marketplaces. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (pp. 297-310).

Bong, Y., Yunus, S., Weerawarna, R., Senkerik, R., Tan, R., Masood, T., Leoni, T., Wawn, T. and Camilleri, V. (2025). White Paper for Universities Role on Navigating AI Ecosystem: AI for Sustainable Development. Asia-Europe Foundation Publications (ASEFInnoLab5 Publication). (p. 75-82) (p. 143-153).

Billones, R. K. C., Lauresta, D. A. S., Dellosa, J. T., Bong, Y., Stergioulas, L. K., & Yunus, S. (2025). AI Ecosystem and Value Chain: A Multi-Layered Framework for Analyzing Supply, Value Creation, and Delivery Mechanisms. Technologies13(9), 421.

Colegate, E. March 2025. Safety versus Speech: The Importance of Rationales for Online Safety Interventions in the Context of Artificial Intelligence Content Moderation Systems. Protections In International Law Conference- Canterbury Christ Church University. Canterbury, United Kingdom

Colegate, E. April 2025. Too Boring to Be Banned? – Exploring Australia’s Under-16 Social Media Prohibition, Stakeholder Reactions, and Potential Lessons for the United Kingdom. 40th Annual BILETA Conference ‘Accelerating Innovation & Strengthening Digital Governance’ – London, UK

Colegate, E. June 2025. Differentiating between harm to users and third parties in the UK’s Online Safety regulations. European Journal of Law and Technology, 16(1).

Colegate, E., Heilbuth, H. April 2025. The Harm of Misunderstanding “Harm” – Exploring the Importance of Linguistic Clarity When Considering Regulatory Definitions of ‘Online Harm’. 40th Annual BILETA Conference ‘Accelerating Innovation & Strengthening Digital Governance’ – London, UK

Heilbuth, H. (2025) k-ID’s new AgeKit: A minor solution to the major problem of kids online?, PL&B International Report, December 2025, Issue 198

Heilbuth, H. (2025) France’s CNIL highlights the importance of privacy in mobile apps, PL&B International Report, October 2025, Issue 197

Jestin, I., Harvey, C., Craven, M., Chadborn, N., & Sharples, S. Acceptance of Advanced Vehicle Technologies in Conditionally Automated Vehicles. HCI International 2025 – Late Breaking Papers.

Liziniewicz, B., Harvey, J., Goulding, J., Dowthwaite, L., Bunker, C. and Broomhead, R. (2025) “Predicting befriending scheme success using machine learning and neodemographic information”International Journal of Population Data Science, 10(5). doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v10i5.3338.

Ngo, V. et al. 2025 Theatre in the Loop: A Rehearsal-Based Collaborative Workflow for Expressive Robotic Behaviours. ArXiv. arxiv.org/abs/2508.03514

Nguyen, PA., Houghton, RJ., Crompton, A., Sharples, S. (2025)., “Integration of personas in transport policymaking”, Contemporary Ergonomics & Human Factors 2025, Ergonomics and Human Factors 2025 conference proceedings

Olejarnik, S. Z., & Romano, D. (2025). The PMDWell Framework: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Video Game Players’ WellbeingComputers in Human Behavior Reports, 100806. doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2025.100806

Panagiotidis, P., Ngo, V. Z. H., Myatt, S., Patel, R., Ramchurn, R., Chamberlain, A., & Kucukyilmaz, A. (2025). Theatre in the loop: A rehearsal-based, collaborative workflow for expressive robotic behaviours. In Social Robotics + AI: 17th International Conference, ICSR+AI 2025, Naples, Italy, September 10–12, 2025, Proceedings, Part III (pp. 718–732). Springer. doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-2398-6_49

Panagiotidis, P., Spence, J., & Jäger, N. (2025). Devising experiments with interactive environments (arXiv:2511.11229 [cs.HC]). arXiv. doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.11229. Presented at Performing Space 2025 (Organised by the Performing Space Association & University of the Peloponnese), Nafplio, Greece, July 4–7, 2025.

Saunders, R. A Doctrinal and Newspaper Data Analysis of UK Policy for LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers Following the Enactment of the Nationality and Boarders Act 2022Societies 2025, 15, 111. doi.org/10.3390/soc15040111

Woods, S., Parkinson, S. 2025 How citizen science is shaping international conservation. The Conversation

Parkinson, S. et al. 2025. Citizen Science and Ocean Literacy: Bridging the Gap Between Society and the Ocean. In: Certomà, C. (eds) Blue Kinships. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78619-8_7

Semple, T., 2025 A critical review of existing fuel poverty definitions in England: Problematisation, obfuscation and compatibility with a just energy transition. Energy Research and Social Science. doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104263

Zhao, Y., Wagner, C., Ryan, B., Pekaslan, D., and Kreinovich, V. “Effectively Communicating Information and Uncertainty from Fuzzy Sets: Why and How,” IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), 2025.

Zhao, Y., Wagner, C., Ryan, B., Pekaslan, D., “Communicating Richer Rail Customer Satisfaction with Interval-Valued Methods,” International Human Factors Rail Conference, 2025.

Zhao, Y., Wagner, C., Kreinovich, V., Ryan, B., and Pekaslan, D. “Discontinuous Interval-Valued Defuzzification for Non-convex Fuzzy Sets,” under review, 2025.