Current Grant Portfolio
Below is a list of grants that are currently active in The School of Computer Science.
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| Grant Title | Awarded to | Awarding Body | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accelerating Software Development and Improving Test Quality using Gamification | José Miguel Rojas | EPSRC | 22/01/2024 | 31/10/2025 |
| ACIT-Hub: Accelerated Compute Infrastructure Training Hub | Twin Karmakharm | UKRI | 01/04/2025 | 31/03/2028 |
| AdSoLve: Addressing socio-technical limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs) for medical and social computing | Nikos Aletras | RAI (EPSRC) | 01/05/2024 | 31/03/2028 |
| Advancing Acoustic AI Technology for Low-cost Tuberculosis Screening | Ning Ma | EPSRC | 02/04/2024 | 30/09/2025 |
| Advancing Cardiac Care through Multi-Modal Data Integration for Precise Scar Mapping | Chen Chen | Royal Society | 01/10/2024 | 30/09/2025 |
| Advancing lung health in Zambia through increasing access to integrated and comprehensive screening, diagnosis and management of TB and other chronicrespiratory diseases at community and primary care levels | Ning Ma | Charity | 01/10/2024 | 31/05/2026 |
| AI-CARE: Prostate Cancer Digital Twin | Daniele Tartarini | EPSRC | 01/04/2024 | 31/12/2025 |
| AI-enhanced Climate-Smart Fertiliser Management for Sustainable and Resilient Farming | Po Yang | Innovate UK | 01/01/2024 | 30/06/2026 |
| ATRIUM: Advancing FronTier Research In the Arts and hUManities | Kalina Bontcheva | Horizon Europe | 01/01/2024 | 31/12/2027 |
| Based Integration of ASR and MT in Spoken Language Translation | Thomas Hain | Industrial | 01/03/2014 | 31/12/2025 |
| BeefTwin: AI powered Digital Twin for Sustainable Beef Farming | Jungong Han | RCUK | 01/02/2025 | 31/01/2027 |
| BLE Bee Tracking System | Chrisopher Noroozi / Mike Smith | Charity | 01/05/2025 | 01/05/2027 |
| BOOM: A Digital Twin for Designing Bladder Treatment Informed By Bladder Outlet Obstruction Mechanobiology | Paul Watton | Government | 01/08/2023 | 31/07/2025 |
| Bootstrap percolation in random graphs | Maksim Zhukovskii | Royal Society | 31/03/2024 | 30/03/2026 |
| Capacity Building and Computing Technologies for Healthcare: An Application in Transforming Mental Health Research and Services in Vietnam | Paul Watton | Charity | 25/03/2024 | 24/03/2026 |
| CAVAA: Counterfactual Assessment and Valuation for Awareness Architecture | Tony Prescott | Horizon Europe | 01/10/2022 | 30/09/2026 |
| CD3: Cancer Data Driven Detection | Haiping Lu | Charity | 01/04/2025 | 31/03/2030 |
| Challenges to Revolutionise Hearing Device Processing | Jon Barker | EPSRC | 01/10/2019 | 31/10/2025 |
| Children's Sleep: Home Monitoring of Paediatric Sleep Disordered Breathing with Unobtrusive Sensors | Ning Ma | NIHR | 01/10/2024 | 31/03/2026 |
| CipherGrit: Real-time ransomware detection system using transfer-learning | Prosanta Gope | Innovate UK | 01/04/2025 | 31/07/2025 |
| CITCoM: Casual Inference for Testing of Computational Models | Neil Walkinshaw | EPSRC | 01/01/2021 | 31/12/2025 |
| Connectivity to Enable Accurate Patient-Specific Cardiovascular Assessments | Xu Xu | EPSRC | 01/07/2025 | 30/06/2028 |
| Data-driven Visions for the Future of AI Skills and Training in the UK | Denis Newman-Griffis | Charity | 01/10/2024 | 30/09/2025 |
| Deep learning of articulatory-based representations of dysarthric speech | Heidi Christensen | Industrial | 01/03/2016 | 31/12/2025 |
| Design and development of CognoMND | Heidi Christensen | LifeArc | 01/07/2024 | 30/06/2027 |
| DIDShield: A Privacy-Centric Approach to Digital Wallet Security | Behzad Abdolmaleki | Innovate UK | 01/04/2025 | 31/07/2025 |
| Digital Twin Energy Grids | Edwin Brown | Innovate UK | 01/10/2024 | 30/09/2025 |
| Distinguishing Common and Proper Nouns | Mark Stevenson | Industrial | 01/03/2011 | 31/12/2025 |
| Electric Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) and machine learning-based decision support system for early diagnosis of oral cancer | Dawn Walker | Charity | 01/03/2024 | 28/02/2027 |
| EnhanceMusic: Machine Learning Challenges to Revolutionise Music Listening for People with Hearing Loss | Jon Barker | EPSRC | 01/06/2022 | 30/11/2026 |
| ESPERANTO: Exchanges for SPEech ReseArch aNd TechnOlogies | Nikos Aletras | EU H2020 | 01/01/2021 | 31/12/2025 |
| Geometric Representations of Uncertainty for Foundation Models | Nafise Sadat Moosavi | Charity | 31/03/2025 | 30/03/2028 |
| GRAIL: Getting Responsible about AI and Machine Learning in Research Funding and Evaluation | Denis Newman-Griffis | Charity | 01/04/2023 | 31/07/2025 |
| Home Monitoring of Paediatric Sleep Disordered Breathing with Unobtrusive Sensors | Ning Ma | MRC | 01/05/2024 | 31/10/2025 |
| In-Procedure Personalized Atrial Digital Twin to Predict Outcome of Atrial Fibrillation | Richard Clayton | EPSRC | 01/04/2022 | 31/03/2026 |
| KG-PPN: Knowledge Guided Multimodal AI for Automatic Quantification and Infestation Estimate of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes | Po Yang | Innovate UK | 01/06/2025 | 28/02/2026 |
| Large Language Models as Agents for Intelligent Language Tutoring | Zheng Yuan | Charity | 31/03/2025 | 30/03/2027 |
| Learning Representations of Higher-Order Structures for Networks via Tensor Embedding | Haiping Lu | Industrial | 01/04/2019 | 31/12/2025 |
| Measuring Human Attribution of Awareness to Robots | Tony Prescott | Charity | 01/12/2023 | 30/11/2025 |
| Modeling probabilistic reinforcement learning and variable behaviour in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster | Eleni Vasilaki | Industrial | 01/05/2018 | 31/12/2025 |
| Modelling Cartilage Chemo-Mechanobiology with Application to Predicting Osteoarthritis Progression and Treatment | Paul Watton | Royal Society | 31/03/2024 | 30/03/2026 |
| Networks of Cardiovascular Digital Twins (CVD-Net) | Richard Clayton | EPSRC | 01/10/2024 | 30/09/2029 |
| Quantitative verification of software families based on coalgebraic modal logic and games | Harsh Beohar | EPSRC | 01/04/2023 | 31/08/2025 |
| Real-time Reservoir Computing on Prosthetic Devices | Luca Manneschi | Charity | 31/03/2023 | 15/12/2025 |
| RoarQ: Robust and Reliable Quantum Computing | Phil McMinn | RCUK | 03/05/2023 | 31/03/2026 |
| Safe and secure COncurrent programming for adVancEd aRchiTectures (COVERT) | John Derrick | EPSRC | 01/07/2023 | 30/11/2026 |
| SafetyOps for Enhancing the Safety of Edge-Cloud-Based Mobility Cyber-Physical Systems of Systems | Dongwhan Shin | Goverment | 01/04/2025 | 31/12/2026 |
| Scaling Multi-Modal AI for Global Cardiac Care | Chen Chen | Internal | 01/07/2025 | 30/06/2026 |
| SecureCall: A Caller Authentication and Encrypted Communication Solution | Mahshid Delavar | Innovate UK | 01/04/2025 | 31/07/2025 |
| SimpliFaiS: Simplification of Failure Scenarios for Machine Learning-enabled Autonomous Systems | Donghwan Shin | EPSRC | 01/01/2024 | 30/06/2026 |
| SoBigData PPP: SoBigData RI Preparatory Phase Project | Kalina Bontcheva | Horizon Europe | 01/10/2022 | 30/09/2025 |
| Spintronic Reservoir Fusion: connecting heterogeneous magneticnano-devices for energy-efficient computing | Matt Ellis | EPSRC | 01/01/2025 | 31/12/2027 |
| Synthesising characteristic formulae and apartness proofs for coalgebras | Harsh Beohar | Charity | 31/03/2023 | 30/03/2026 |
| TENACITy: Travelling Intelligence Against Crime and Terrorism | Vita Lanfranchi | Horizon Europe | 01/10/2022 | 30/09/2025 |
| Test FLARE: Test Flakiness Automated Reproduction and Explanation | Phil McMinn | RCUK | 02/10/2023 | 01/02/2027 |
| The extent of the Natural Proofs barrier | Navid Talebanfard | Charity | 31/03/2025 | 30/03/2027 |
| The SCALE-UP Network: Scaling digital RTP support nationally | Paul Richmond | UKRI | 01/04/2025 | 31/03/2029 |
| The SofTMech Statistical Emulation and Translation Hub | Richard Clayton | RCUK | 01/03/2021 | 28/02/2026 |
| UK Open Multimodal AI Network (UKOMAIN) | Haiping Lu | EPSRC | 01/01/2025 | 31/12/2027 |
| UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Speech and Language Technologies and their Applications | Thomas Hain | UKRI | 01/04/2019 | 30/07/2027 |
| Upper Limb Neurorehabilitation VR system for paediatric patients | Steve Maddock | Charity | 01/03/2025 | 31/08/2026 |
| Using Data Driven Artificial Intelligence to Reveal Pesticide Induced Changes in Pollinator Behaviour | Mike Smith | BBSRC | 14/02/2024 | 31/10/2025 |
| vera.ai: VERification Assisted by Artificial Intelligence | Kalina Bontcheva | Horizon Europe | 01/09/2022 | 14/11/2025 |
| VIGILANT: Vital IntelliGence to Investigate ILlegAl DisiNformaTion | Carolina Scarton | Horizon Europe | 01/11/2022 | 31/10/2025 |
| VIM: towards a Vision based System for Inventory Management with Deep Learning | Zhixiang Chen | EPSRC | 15/01/2024 | 14/01/2026 |
| VoiceBase Centre | Thomas Hain | Industrial | 01/04/2018 | 31/03/2026 |
| XAI PPN: Interpretable AI-enabled Automatic Identification Pipeline for Plant-Parasitic Nematodes in Complex Mixtures | Po Yang | EPSRC KE | 15/06/2024 | 14/09/2025 |