AI & Big Data
Glasgow’s AI research is uniquely focused on developing approaches that are human-centred and user-oriented. This means deploying approaches that understand how humans communicate and interact with the AI system, and how to make it blend smoothly with our daily life and social interactions.
The UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Socially Intelligent Artificial Agents works on endowing machines with social intelligence, i.e., with the ability to understand social and psychological phenomena such as emotions, personality, attitudes, intentions, etc. (see Social AI Glasgow).
Natural Language Processing activities target AI approaches that make sense of language, whether this means to provide people with personalised financial advice (see INFINITECH and FAR-AI), to support the interaction with large and complex data sets (see Closed-Loop Data Science) or to elicit user feedback for improving the quality of conversational search systems (see Glasgow Information Retrieval Group), thus expanding humans’ cognition and skills in dealing with large amounts of information.
Finally, Human Computer Interaction activities investigate the AI as a means to support the interaction between people and machines, whether these are humanoid robots (see MuMMER), virtual environments populated with artificial humans (see SONICOM) or people interacting in Extended Reality (see FUSION).
All work above requires not only technical and computing skills, but also consistent attention to ethical and societal issues. Hence, the University actively contributes to the Responsible AI Hub and its mission through the development of approaches capable to be fair towards their users, to monitor equitable representation of people in media or to ensure conducting research on medical records while preserving the patients’ privacy (see SIEPH: Safe Information Extraction from Patient Histories).
Related Areas: Application Development and Engineering, Digital Twins, Responsible AI, Distributed AI, Information Retrieval, Multimodality, Data Fusion, Statistics, Data Science, User Experience (UX) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Extended Reality (XR), Topological Data Analysis, Digital and Automated Chemistry, Simulation.
Supervisors working in this field
Professor Alasdair W Clark
Professor of Nanoscale Engineering
Dr Albert S.J. (Stevan) van Heerden
Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering
Prof Aleksandra Vuckovic
Professor of Neurotechnology and Rehabilitation Engineering
Dr Ali Gooya
Senior Lecturer in Machine Learning
Prof Ana Garcia Lecuona
Professor of Mathematics
Professor Andrew Sutherland
Professor
Dr Ankush Aggarwal
Senior Lecturer
Dr Antoniette Greta Grima
Lecturer/assistant professor in Computational Geoscience
Dr Archer Gong Zhang
Lecturer in Statistics and Data Analytics
Dr Dadi Bi
Lecturer
Prof Dave Adams
Professor of Materials Chemistry
Dr Debasis Ganguly
Lecturer of Computing Science
Dr Fani Deligianni
Senior Lecturer
Dr Gerardo Aragon Camarasa
Senior Lecturer of Robotics and AI
Dr Giorgos Georgiou
Senior Lecturer of Quantum Engineering
Dr Handan Gul Calikli
Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering
Prof Hui (Howard) Yu
Professor of Visual and Cognitive Computing
Dr Ian MacLaren
Reader in Physics
Dr Jake Lever
Lecturer
Dr Jiabao Xu
Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering
Dr Jianglin Lan
Lecturer
Dr John MacDonald
Senior Lecturer in Anthropogenic Geomaterials
Dr Karen Cameron
Senior Lecturer
Dr Kayla Fallon
Research Scientist
Professor Larissa Naylor
Professor of Geomorphology and Environmental Geography
Dr Marwa Mahmoud
Senior Lecturer in Socially Intelligent Technologies
Dr Mathieu Chollet
Senior Lecturer
Dr Morteza Amjadi Kolour
Senior Lecturer of Biomedical Engineering
Dr Muhammad Aslam
Lecturer of Power Systems
Dr Nazila Fough
Senior Lecturer
Dr Nicola Bell
EPSRC Open Fellow (Digital Inorganic Chemistry)
Dr Nicolas Pugeault
Reader in Computer Vision and Machine Learning
Dr Nikela Papadopoulou
Lecturer in Low Carbon and Sustainable Computing
Dr Peggy Gregory
Senior Lecturer Software Engineering
Dr RóisÃn Buckley
Senior Lecturer
Dr Sean McGinty
Reader
Dr. habil. Sebastian Gerhard Mutz
Senior Lecturer in Climate Modelling
Prof Simone Stumpf
Professor of Responsible and Interactive AI
Dr Sofiat Olaosebikan
Lecturer in Algorithms and Complexity
Dr Yutian Tang
Lecturer
Dr Tiffany Vlaar
Lecturer
Professor Vihar Petkov Georgiev
Professor of Nanoelectronics
Dr Wenjuan Song
Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in electrically powered aircraft
Dr Wenxin Zhang
Reader
Dr William Peveler
Senior Lecturer and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
Dr Xander Huggins
Lecturer of Global Terrestrial Water
Dr Yehia Elkhatib
Reader
Dr Zhiwei Gao
Senior Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering