AI & Digital

For traditional industries, the extent to which they adapt to digital change is a major factor in deciding whether they succeed, stall or fail in the future. At the same time, digital is the driving force powering the growth of new businesses and new sectors.

Our research programmes with a range of global businesses and academic collaborators include: the development of digital tools for business intelligence and planning, enhanced Building Information Modelling (BIM) systems with new functionality such as energy use prediction and optimisation, healthcare and behaviour support tools such as effective obesity management and fitness apps, architecture and design tools using virtual environments, and ground-breaking use of the digital arts to challenge perceptions of disability.

Our academics perform cutting-edge research in the areas of artificial intelligence, web science, machine learning, computational biology, digital computer games and computer networks.

Expertise includes:

• Artificial Intelligence and computational intelligence
• Machine learning - supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms and reinforcement machine learning algorithms
• Recommender systems - analyse large scale of data to provide online prediction and personal recommendations
• Deep learning and artificial neural networks
• Big data analytics and data mining
• Artificial Intelligence and blockchain
• Natural language processing
• Internet of Things - smart sensors and smart manufacturing
• Development of mathematical models to predict and interpret biological and biomedical functionalities
• Application of cation machine learning to wireless network and security problems

Research groups:

• Digital and creative economy

Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund:

• AI & Data Economy
• Healthy Ageing
• Clean Growth
• Future of Mobility