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Please join us at our eighth Community Event, Wednesday 16th October 2024 at The Wave, with networking lunch. Open to all with an interest in AI.

The meeting is in-person only and will include: an update from Prof. James Marshall, Director for the Centre for Machine Intelligence, introductions from our new team members, a report on the results of our community consultation and community short pitches on AI related research!

Time & location: 12:30-16:00, Workroom 2, The Wave, 2 Whitham Rd, 91Ö±²¥ S10 2AH

Registration is now closed.

Programme:

12:30-13:15 - Registration, lunch and networking 

13:15-13:30 - Introduction and update from CMI Director, Prof James Marshall

13:30-14:00 - Presenting the new CMI staff - Chair: Prof James Marshall

• Dr James Law, Deputy Director (5 mins)
• Dr Morgan Jones, Cross-Cutting Theme Lead for Supporting Digital Education (5 mins)
• Dr Mahnaz Arvaneh, Cross-Cutting Theme Lead for AI-Powered Spinouts and Entrepreneurship (5 mins)
• Dr Sean Anderson, Cross-Cutting Theme Lead for Upskilling in AI and Data Science (5 mins)
• Dr Susan Oman, AI and In/equality Theme Lead (10 mins)

14:00-15:00 - Results of the community consultation, Dr Emma Barker - Chair: Dr Sean Anderson

• Results of the consultation (15 mins)
• Breakout session - coffee available from 14:15 (30 mins)
• Group leaders to report on discussions (15 mins)

15:00-15:30 - Showcase presentation -  Chair: Dr James Law 

Speaker: Dr Lauren White, School of Education

Title: Makerspaces and Co-production Methodologies: Reflections from the Reimagining Trustworthy Autonomous Systems with Disabled Young People Project 

15:30-16:00 - Community 1-minute flash talks - Chair: Prof James Marshall

• Nazia Nafis (Computer Science) - AI in Healthcare and Bias Mitigation
• Neil Lawrence (Medical School) - Revolutionising screening for congenital heart disease using automated heart murmur recognition
• Madhu Pahar (Computer Science) - CognoSpeak: an automatic, remote assessment of early cognitive decline in real-world conversational speech
• Ghada Sasi (Chemistry) - OCT analyser software
• Shivani Harshe (Physics and Astronomy) - Biomolecular Simulations at Lightning Speed!!
• Patricio Ortiz (Automatic Control and Systems Engineering) - Feeding AI sensor data
• Jon Stammers (Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre) - Data Samey-ness (Let's start deleting data...)
• Guy Solomon (Digital Humanities Institute) - Linking individuals at scale in nineteenth-century census data
• Dave Holloway (Education Development Services) - Adapting Errors: How I used AI to make the Student Digital Induction Logo
• Chaona Chen (Computer Science) - Equipping Social Robots with Emotional Intelligence
• Vincent Obia (Journalism) - A continent on the margins: Investigating African approaches to regulating artificial intelligence
• Brendan Doody (School of Geography and Planning) - Government facilitation of urban robotic innovation
• Andrew Cox (Information School) - AI skills
• Ross Drummond (Automatic Control and Systems Engineering) - Image generation for battery fires
• Oliver Hayes (Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre) - AI for composite machining
• Will Jacobs (Electronic and Electrical Engineering) - AI for Aerospace applications
• Aidan Hughes (Mechanical Engineering) - Decision-theoretic machine learning for engineering systems
• Rob Barthorpe (Mechanical Engineering) - AI Applications: Distributed Thermal Energy Storage
• Max Champneys (Mechanical Engineering) - AI-driven uncertainty quantification from the km to the nm scale
• Daniele Tartarini (Computer Science) - FAIR4RS Training Program
• Joe Heffer (Library) - Introducing the Data Analytics Service
• Philip Webster (Library) - Working with the Library
• Gavin Boyce (Library) - How can the Library support your use of data for AI?
• Laurie Wilson (Education Development Services) - Elevate's training and support on generative AI in education: What we do and what we need

16:00 - Closing remarks
 

We look forward to seeing you at the CMI Town Hall!