Our colleagues in the School of Electronics and Computer Science and the Zepler Institute for Photonics and Nanoelectronics will be at the forefront of developing the next generation of experts and leaders in Artificial Intelligence (AI) thanks to a receiving part of a £100M investment from UK Research and Innovation.
The funding will be used to create the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Machine Intelligence for Nano-electronic Devices and Systems (MINDS), which will lead a research training programme to develop cohorts of PhDs into the well-rounded innovators a dynamic UK economy and society needs.
The Centre brings together a mixture of complementary expertise from within our University and from industry to focus on the benefits of future AI systems and their application in a wide variety of domains including robotics, embedded systems, manufacturing and security, and smart cities and care homes.
Professor Tim Norman, Director of the MINDS CDT said:
“Our track record of interdisciplinary research, world-leading facilities, and capacity places us in an ideal position to train graduates with the breadth of knowledge, understanding and innovative potential required to realise this hardware-enabled AI vision,”
Professor Themis Prodromakis, Co-Director of the MINDS CDT, who leads the Electronic Materials and Devices Group in the Zepler Institute, added:
“There is consensus that the UK needs a significant increase in intellectual capacity and concomitant high-level skills delivering intelligent and efficient hardware solutions, and this CDT will deliver the right MINDS for addressing this need.”
The MINDS CDT is recruiting now for students to commence their PhDs in September 2019. Find more detail on the training offered and how to apply on the MINDS CDT website.
