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AI Research Hub Symposium

Call for presentations

AI Research Hub Symposium ‘Our Enabled World’ (Pushing Humanity Forward) provides a cross-disciplinary platform that brings together, and connects, researchers and practitioners from multiple disciplines on local, regional and international levels.  It aims to showcase the research of academics, practitioners, and research students across Aberystwyth University and its stakeholder networks.

You are invited to submit a 15-minute presentation for consideration, to be presented at the symposium. This call is open to preliminary/ongoing work in all areas of AI research and practice which could include, but is not limited to, the following themes:  Exploration and Discovery, Ethics, Behaviour Analysis, Predictive Modelling, AI Theory & Development, Interventions, Creation.

For more information please see the documents attached, for further enquires please contact sob@aber.ac.uk

Abstracts should be submitted by email in word format to Dr Sophie Bennett-Gillison sob@aber.ac.uk by 12^th July 2024

Ysgol Haf AI Aberystwyth | Aberystwyth AI Summer School

The AI Hub Summer School is an annual event funded by the AI Hub and Graduate School, and aims for supporting the career development of researchers. 

The school runs in-person and is a week-long, intensive course with a mixture of interactive seminars, lectures and hands-on practical sessions.  The desired learning outcomes of the school are:  

1. Formulate a research problem that can be addressed using AI approaches.  

2. Familiarize with Python for data processing and application of AI approaches.  

3. Decide which AI approach would suit best to address the specified problem.  

4. Design and implement a personalized data processing and modelling pipeline.  

5. Evaluate the performance of the pipeline in terms of accuracy, robustness, and usefulness.  

6. Deliver a presentation.   

The school is open to anyone (at any level and from any discipline) who is interested in applying AI into their research and has a dataset in hand. Some programming knowledge would be advantageous, but support will be provided for those who have no prior programming experience. Postgraduate research students and early career researchers are particularly encouraged to apply.

The AI Hub Summer School 2024 will take place between 15^th and 19^th of July 2024.

Past Events

Bamikole Olaleye Akinsehinde (Computer Science) Enhancing Rainfall Prediction in Aberystwyth and Bath: Insights from an Initial Integration with Deep Learning, Advance Feature Selection and Ensemble Techniques

These seminars are organised as part of the Our AI Enabled World (Pushing Humanity Forward) research hub, a cross-disciplinary platform that brings together, and connects, researchers and practitioners working in the areas of artificial intelligence and data science on local, regional and international levels. The aim of the seminar series is to highlight the multidisciplinary nature of artificial intelligence and data science research in areas such as exploration/discovery, predictive modelling, creation, behaviour analysis, theory development, ethics, interventions, and enabling technology.

Cory Thomas (Computer Science Department) What the RSE can offer

These seminars are organised as part of the Our AI Enabled World (Pushing Humanity Forward) research hub, a cross-disciplinary platform that brings together, and connects, researchers and practitioners working in the areas of artificial intelligence and data science on local, regional and international levels. The aim of the seminar series is to highlight the multidisciplinary nature of artificial intelligence and data science research in areas such as exploration/discovery, predictive modelling, creation, behaviour analysis, theory development, ethics, interventions, and enabling technology.

Maria de la Puerta Fernández (IBERS) A new open dataset for rangeland and pasture management in Namibia

These seminars are organised as part of the Our AI Enabled World (Pushing Humanity Forward) research hub, a cross-disciplinary platform that brings together, and connects, researchers and practitioners working in the areas of artificial intelligence and data science on local, regional and international levels. The aim of the seminar series is to highlight the multidisciplinary nature of artificial intelligence and data science research in areas such as exploration/discovery, predictive modelling, creation, behaviour analysis, theory development, ethics, interventions, and enabling technology.

Will Robinson (Computer Science) An Expanded Out-of-Distribution Testing Framework for Deep Learning

These seminars are organised as part of the Our AI Enabled World (Pushing Humanity Forward) research hub, a cross-disciplinary platform that brings together, and connects, researchers and practitioners working in the areas of artificial intelligence and data science on local, regional and international levels. The aim of the seminar series is to highlight the multidisciplinary nature of artificial intelligence and data science research in areas such as exploration/discovery, predictive modelling, creation, behaviour analysis, theory development, ethics, interventions, and enabling technology.

Professor Gennady Mishuris (Department of Mathematics) Can AI help to predict the average toughness of a heterogeneous material undergoing fracture?

These seminars are organised as part of the Our AI Enabled World (Pushing Humanity Forward) research hub, a cross-disciplinary platform that brings together, and connects, researchers and practitioners working in the areas of artificial intelligence and data science on local, regional and international levels. The aim of the seminar series is to highlight the multidisciplinary nature of artificial intelligence and data science research in areas such as exploration/discovery, predictive modelling, creation, behaviour analysis, theory development, ethics, interventions, and enabling technology.

Tossapon Boongoen (Computer Science) Imperfect Data: Challenge, Previous and Future work

These seminars are organised as part of the Our AI Enabled World (Pushing Humanity Forward) research hub, a cross-disciplinary platform that brings together, and connects, researchers and practitioners working in the areas of artificial intelligence and data science on local, regional and international levels. The aim of the seminar series is to highlight the multidisciplinary nature of artificial intelligence and data science research in areas such as exploration/discovery, predictive modelling, creation, behaviour analysis, theory development, ethics, interventions, and enabling technology.

AI Research Hub Symposium Our AI Enabled World (Pushing Humanity Forward)

Get to know the Research Hub.

A warm welcome is extended to you for an informal gathering with wine and nibbles at ‘Tŷ Trafod Ymchwil’ on the evening of the 5th October.

Researchers are invited to join us to find out about the upcoming plans from the Aberystwyth University Research Hubs Research Hubs : Research, Business & Innovation , Aberystwyth University.

This will also provide an opportunity to visit Tŷ Trafod Ymchwil (Research Dialogue Hub), and to learn how to use and reserve the new space, which will be made available for all researchers.

AI – Symposium ‘Pushing Humanity Forward‘

This Symposium will provide across-disciplinary platform that brings together, and connects, researchers and practitioners from multiple disciplines on local, regional and international levels.

Link to the AI Symposium Programme

Ysgol Haf AI Aberystwyth | Aberystwyth AI Summer School

We would like to invite you to attend the second Aberystwyth AI Summer School for Beginners which will be held in Aberystwyth between 17th and 21st of July. The school, funded by the AI Hub and Graduate School, aims for supporting the career development of researchers.

The school will be an in-person, week-long, intensive course with a mixture of interactive seminars, lectures and hands-on practical sessions. The desired learning outcomes of the school are:

1. Formulate a research problem that can be addressed using AI approaches.

2. Familiarize with Python for data processing and application of AI approaches.

3. Decide which AI approach would suit best to address the specified problem.

4. Design and implement a personalized data processing and modelling pipeline.

5. Evaluate the performance of the pipeline in terms of accuracy, robustness, and usefulness.

6. Deliver a presentation.

The school is open to anyone (at any level and from any discipline) who is interested in applying AI into their research and has a dataset in hand. Some programming knowledge would be advantageous, but support will be provided for those who have no prior programming experience. Postgraduate research students and early career researchers are particularly encouraged to apply.

The applicants are expected to attend the entire school which will run all day from Monday to Friday. Lunch and snacks will be provided.

Melin Drafod y Ganolfan Deallusrwydd Artiffisial | AI Hub Sandpit

The AI Research Hub will be running an interdisciplinary sandpit for all disciplines within AU to work together to develop proposals around the following two themes: Fundamental AI Development Applied AI (in any area) Please note that post-doctoral researchers are welcome to apply to participate in the sandpit.

AI Research Hub Symposium Our AI Enabled World (Pushing Humanity Forward)

The AI Research Hub Symposium ‘Our Enabled World’ (Pushing Humanity Forward) provides a cross-disciplinary platform that brings together, and connects, researchers and practitioners from multiple disciplines on local, regional and international levels. It aims to showcase the research of academics, practitioners, and research students across Aberystwyth University and its stakeholder networks.

Ysgol Haf AI Aberystwyth | Aberystwyth AI Summer School

The AI Hub would like to invite you to attend the first Aberystwyth AI Summer School for Beginners which will be held in Aberystwyth between 15 and 19th of August. This will be an in-person, week-long, intensive course with a mixture of interactive seminars, lectures and hands-on practical sessions. The desired learning outcomes of the school are:

1. Formulate a research problem that can be addressed using AI approaches.

2. Familiarize with Python for data processing and application of AI approaches.

3. Decide which AI approach would suit best to address the specified problem.

4. Design and implement a personalized data processing and modelling pipeline.

5. Evaluate the performance of the pipeline in terms of accuracy, robustness, and usefulness.

6. Deliver a presentation.

The school is open to anyone (from any discipline) who is interested in applying AI into their research and has a dataset in hand. Some programming knowledge would be advantageous but support will be provided for those who have no prior programming experience. Postgraduate research students and early career researchers are particularly encouraged to apply.

The applicants are expected to attend the entire school which will run all day from Monday to Friday. Lunch and snacks will be provided.

Melin Drafod y Ganolfan Deallusrwydd Artiffisial | AI Hub Sandpit

The AI Research Hub will be running an interdisciplinary sandpit for all disciplines within AU to work together to develop proposals around the following two themes: Fundamental AI Development Applied AI (in any area) Please note that post-doctoral researchers are welcome to apply to participate in the sandpit.

CYFLWYNO’R HWB DA | INTRODUCING THE AI HUB

As part of the University’s Research and Innovation strategy it has been decided to establish multidisciplinary research Hubs in three strategic research areas. Lead by Christine Zarges, Helen Miles, Huw Morgan, Jungong Han, Otar Akanyeti, Reyer Zwiggelaar, and Sophie Bennett-Gillison the AI Hub welcomes participation from across the research community to develop new research initiatives and provide support to cross disciplinary barriers. Please see document attached for more details.

As a starting point on this journey the AI Hub will be holding a workshop on the 4th April 2022 between 12- 3pm.  Lunch will be available around 1pm. (Details to follow on registration)

The aim of the workshop will be:

•            To introduce the AI Hub

•            To bring together researchers with an interest in key AI issues/applications

•            To help foster networking

•            To scope for collaborative AI and AI application research ideas

We hope you will be able to join this event and look forward to seeing you there.