The Alan Turing Institute
Leeds Institute entered its sixth year of partnership with the Turing this year with a packed agenda of events and opportunities.
The Alan Turing Institute is the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence and describes its three main goals as...
Advancing world-class research and apply it to national and global challenges - Building skills for the future
- Driving an informed public conversation
The University of Leeds became a partner of the Turing in 2018 and continues that relationship now as one of 65 members of the new Turing University Network (TUN). This expanded network hopes to bring together more researchers from across the UK with an interest and expertise in data science and AI.
Workshop Held at LIDA, Leeds, on October 18, 2023
This half-day workshop brought together a small group of researchers in AI and Data Science at the University of Leeds to meet with Prof. Adam Sobey from the Alan Turing Institute. During the session, we presented our related research and discussed potential collaborations in key areas such as efficient resource management in large-scale computing systems and accelerating the training of large language models. We agreed to stay in touch and explore future collaborative opportunities, with one immediate outcome being joint work on the IEEE CAI.
IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE CAI)
The IEEE CAI is an industry-organized conference and exhibition focusing on AI applications in specific industries. Adam Sobey (Alan Turing Institute) and Jie Xu (University of Leeds) were involved in organizing IEEE CAI 2024 in Singapore in June 25-27, 2024 and will co-lead the organization of IEEE CAI 2025, which will be held in Santa Clara, California, from May 5-7, 2025.
AIUK
AI UK returned for 2024 with Team LIDA taking a field trip to Westminster to find out what was top of the AI agenda for The Alan Turing Institute. With representatives from the Data Analytics Team, Research & Innovation and Operations, everyone had a clear favourite from the the two-day event, from national defence and local councils preventing homelessness, to dragons den pitches and drag artists.
AIUK Fringe event
Connecting Data for Connected Public Services - colleagues from academia and NHS to address how Universities can help deliver data insights to local organisations planning, running and commissioning public services to improve population health and wellbeing.
SCiML Fringe Event
Workshop: Latest Developments in Physics-Informed Machine Learning An event in collaboration between The Alan Turing Institute, the Data Science Institute, the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London, the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics and the Leeds Institute for Fluid Dynamics. Delegates had the opportunity to showcase their work via posters or flash talks with prize awards alongside three keynote speakers.
Turing Interest Group
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Navigating the garden of forking paths: theoretical foundations for interactive data analysis in data-driven science.
Dr Roger Beecham ran Challenge Method Fortnight with Warwick University. The Theory & Methods Challenge Fortnight developed proposals for conducting and reporting data-intensive research in a more formal way. The aim of the activity was to lay the foundations for rigorous interactive data analysis practices and guidelines for computational tools that underpin the next generation of analysis platforms.