Please join us at our Seventh Community Meeting, Wednesday 6th March 2024 at Inox Dine with networking lunch. Open to all with an interest in AI.

The meeting is in-person only and will include: an update by Prof. Guy Brown, Interim Director for the Centre for Machine Intelligence (CMI), an update on the AI Research Engineering (AIRE) Team by Prof Haiping Lu, and guest speaker, Prof Suzanne Mason who will talk about Data Connect. We will also have community pitches, open-mic, networking opportunities and more!

Programme:

11:30-12:00: Arrival, registration, and networking with tea/coffee
12:00-12:30: Update on Shef.AI by Prof. Haiping Lu and Update on the CMI by Prof. Guy Brown
12:30-13:30: Lunch and networking [Add your profile and try out our other forms]
13:30-15:40: Invited Talk, Pitches and Panel discussion

Community pitches (68-77 mins)
Infrastructure and Facilitation: 12-14 mins

• Haolin Wang (Computer Science) - Multi-fidelity Fusion for Intelligent Design
• Wenrui Fan (Computer Science) - AI for Parkinson's Disease
• Xianyuan Liu (Computer Science) - Digital Materials Discovery 
• Adam Stanton (Computer Science) - Research Software Engineering for AIML

AI for Manufacturing and Engineering: 12-14 mins

• Jon Stammers (AMRC) - Data Science and AI at the AMRC
• Lindsay Lee (AMRC) - Let's talk about stats
• Donghwan Shin (Computer Science) - Software Testing Meets AI: Opportunities

Theory: 10-12 mins

• Matthew Ellis (Computer Science) - Neural Stochastic Differential Equations as Digital Twins of Neuromorphic Devices
• Wei Xing (Mathematics and Statistics) - Accelerating Simulations using Multi-fidelity Fusion

Human-centric AI: 12-14 mins

• Kate Simpson (Digital Humanities Institute) - Participatory auditing workbenches in cultural heritage
• Xi Wang (Computer Science) - Personalisation in Conversational AI
• Nicola Thomas (Management School) - Using AI to measure emotions in Work Psychology research
• Matt Sutcliffe (Careers and Employability Service) - Using AI in Careers and Employability

Invited talk (20 mins)

• Prof. Suzanne Mason (School of Medicine and Population Health) - DataConnect

Community pitches (continued)
Health and healthcare: 21-23 mins

• Venet Osmani (Information School) - Generative AI for synthetic clinical data
• Carolanne Vouriot (Civil and Structural Engineering) - Predicting indoor air quality with AI
• John Charlton (Dentistry) - Computational Pathology in Salivary Gland Tumours
• Shaoxiong Sun (Computer Science) - The utility of mobile devices and AI in patient monitoring
• Chen Chen (Computer Science) - Towards AI-augmented healthcare: enhancing model robustness, adaptability, and reliability

Panel Discussion (15:20): 20 mins
Q1. What key barriers hinder scaling AI advances in your field, and how can we collectively address them?
Q2. As the CMI takes full shape, what are your highest expectations for its impact in the coming months and years?
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15:40-16:30: Closing, informal networking, and interest group meetings