ACAIRA

Undertake innovative, impactful, and cross-disciplinary research in AI.
Consolidate existing AI research activities at Aston and facilitate new interdisciplinary research initiatives and collaborations.
Develop new and reinforce existing collaborations with national and international institutions to expand Aston’s external reach in AI research and application.
Promote and develop transparent, ethical, sustainable, and trustworthy AI methodologies.
Provide high-quality training for the next generation of AI users and researchers.

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News

Dr Alina Patelli and Dr Dalila Ribaudo (Aston Business School) will co-lead a UK-EU consortium consolidation project funded by The British Academy. This will support the development of a Horizon Europe application to fund an intelligent urban mobility project that leverages AI to inform policy.
Following the success of the UK AI conference 2024 in Birmingham, we are happy to announce that PhD student Vincent Zakka is member of the organising committee for UK AI 2025 in London.
Professor Lucy Bastin gave an invited seminar at iDiv, the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity in Leipzig, on the topic of "Connectivity data cubes: tracking functional habitat connections in space and time".
Professor Anikó Ekárt has been appointed as associate editor for the Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines journal, dedicated to the automatic evolution of software and hardware area of artificial intelligence.
Dr Roberto Alamino, Dr Hassan Khan, and PhD student Niloofar Aminikalibar contributed to a training on "Bridging Machine Learning and Microplastic Research" for early-stage researchers. Roberto was one of the organisers, coordinated the activities, and participated and chaired discussion panels.

Dr Phil Weber is teaming up with Professor Abdul Sadka (Digital Futures Institute) and Phoebus Software Ltd to develop a conversational query tool, a private LLM trained to provide financial information to advisers and clients, with zero hallucinations and appropriate security between hosted businesses and clients. They are currently recruiting an associate.
Dr Shereen Fouad has been appointed as Guest Editor for a Special Issue on "Deep Learning in Biomedical Image Analysis" in Applied Sciences, an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by MDPI. For more information, see here.

Dr Shereen Fouad and Prof Aniko Ekart hosted more than 50 healthcare professionals in their workshop for "Bridging the Knowledge Gap in AI Technology Among Healthcare Practitioners", discussing challenges and opportunities in AI adoption.

A number of early career researchers and PhD students from ACAIRA contributed to the 2nd UK AI conference, with talks by Michael Pritchard and Niloofar Aminikalibar and poster contributions from John Rego, Victoria Lush, Muhammad Uzzam and Ezekiel Appiah. Read more here.
Dr Shereen Fouad won funding from the EPSRC Impact Builder Award to bridge the knowledge gap in AI technology among healthcare practitioners. Learn more on our research page.