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Excited pupils explored virtual landscapes and learned new digital skills when they visited state-of-the-art facilities at the University of Leeds. The immersive experience, using virtual reality (VR) headsets alongside the UK’s only Omnideck – a 360-degree treadmill – was part of a project aimed at inspiring children from diverse backgrounds to pursue a career in...
By Jian Feng/Franks, Data Scientist, LIDA Introduction One of the great perks included in our training on the Data Scientist Development Programme (DSDP) is that we get a budget to attend national and international conferences. So I was delighted to attend The Alan Turing Institute’s AI UK conference in March. It’s the first time the conference has...
LIDA affiliates Dr Jon Ward and Dr Marlous Hall recently took part in a multi-institutional Inclusive Leadership Workshop at the University of Manchester as part of their roles in the 100 Black Women Professors NOW Programme – aiming to increase the number of Black women in the academic pipeline. Of around 24,000 professors in the...
By Paul Evans, Research and Innovation Development Manager, LIDA Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere in mainstream media at the moment and in the world of data science, AI research funding is booming and becoming noticeably embedded into a lot of funding calls. One of the major research funding councils Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council...
The University of Leeds, via Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA), is offering scholarships for students to study data science-related Masters courses, which will help increase diversity and improve skills gaps in the digital workforce. Applications are now open for 18 scholarships to study on three data science-related Masters courses in the 2023-24 academic year,...
The University of Leeds, through Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA), is delighted to be confirmed as a member of the new Turing University Network. The Alan Turing Institute, the national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, has launched the Turing University Network, as a new way of working with universities across the UK....
Next generation clinical trials using "digital twins" of anonymised real-life patients are a step closer after Professor Alejandro Frangi, LIDA Director of Research & Innovation, was awarded a €2.5m grant to further his pioneering research. Professor Alejandro Frangi, Diamond Jubilee Chair in Computational Medicine and Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies at the University of...
By Prof Paul D. Baxter, LIDA Director of Education & Training LIDA’s first Data Science Careers Event, targeted at our Leeds undergraduate and postgraduate students, proved a huge success. The event reached capacity within days of opening on Eventbrite, even after our upgrading to the large 80+ seat Worsley Dental Lecture Theatre from the LIDA...
A new and fully online Master of Science (MSc) in Data Science (Statistics) has been launched by the University on the online learning platform, Coursera.
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