📋 Tender Overview
Funded Value5426912Funded PeriodApr 19 - Sep 27FunderEPSRCProject StatusActiveProject CategoryTraining GrantProject ReferenceEPS0239921We live in a society dominated by information. The collection of data is an ongoing and continuous process covering all aspects of life and the amount of data available in recent years has exploded. In order to make sense of this data utilise it gain insights and draw conclusions new computational methods to analyse and infer have been developed. This is often described by the general term artificial intelligence AI which includes machine learning or deep learning which rely on the processing of information by computers to extract nontrivial information without providing explicit models. Highly visible are developments driven by social media as this affects every person in a very explicit manner. However AI is widely adopted across the industrial sectors and hence underpins a successful growth of the UKs economy. Moreover also in academic research AI has become a toolset used across the disciplines beyond the traditional realms of computer and data science. Research in science health and engineering relies on AI to support a wide range of activities from the discovery of the Higgs boson and gravitational waves via the detection of breast cancer and diabetic retinopathy to autonomous decision- making and human-machine interaction.In order to sustain the industrial growth it is necessary to train the next generation of highly-skilled AI users and researchers. In this Centre for Doctoral Training we deliver a training programme for doctoral researchers covering a broad range of scientific and medical topics and with external partners engaged at every level from large international companies via government agencies to SMEs and start-ups. AI relies on computing and with data sets growing ever larger the use of advanced computing skills such as optimisation parallelisation and scalability becomes a necessity for the bigger tasks. For that reason the CDT has joined forces with Supercomputing Wales SCW a new 15 million national supercomuting programme of investment part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund. The CDT will connect researchers working at Swansea Aberystwyth Bangor Cardiff and Bristol universities with regional and national industrial partners and with SCW. Our CDT is therefore ideally placed to link AI and high-performance computing in a coordinated fashion.The academic foundation of our training programme is built on research excellence. We focus on three broad multi- disciplinary scientific medical and computational areas namely- data from large science facilities such as the Large Hadron Collider the Square Kilometre Array and the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory- biological health and clinical sciences including access to electronic health records maintained in the Secured Anonymised Informat
