The Web Science Institute (WSI), one of University of Southampton’s five Strategic Research Institutes, is pleased to announce this year’s awardees to its annual Pilot Project Fund which include innovative work in the areas of coastal resilience, AI and patient interactions and community-based learning.
This fund is designed to stimulate and pump-prime interdisciplinary research that will lead to the development of full research grant proposals.
The WSI brings together the university’s world-class, interdisciplinary, socio-technical expertise in web science, data science and artificial intelligence to leverage the unique role of online technologies in tackling global challenges. The 2024-25 Funding Call attracted exceptionally high-quality research proposals from all five university faculties.
Professor Les Carr, Web Science Institute Deputy Director said: “WSI is thrilled to support a novel mix of interdisciplinary research projects. Many faculties and disciplines have joined together to demonstrate the potential that AI technologies have to improve outcomes for individuals, communities and the environment.”
More details of awardees and their research projects can be found on the Web Science Institute’s Sharepoint.
- Dr Athina Thoma, AI-enhanced Maths Problems and Puzzles – Developing and Evaluating a Suite of Resources
- Professor Jason Sadler, Improving Coastal Resilience Through AI-Driven Wave Predictions
- Liz Allaway, Assessing the Accuracy and Patient Acceptability of AI vs Human Translation of Patient Facing Clinical Trial Documentation
- Dr Pablo Galaz, Machine Learning-Driven Gestural Control for Expressive Sound Synthesis: Bridging Movement, Music, And Musculoskeletal Health Through Analogue Synthesisers
- Dr Ruohan Tang, The Rise of Synthographers: AI Digital Art and User-Generated Content on Short Video Platforms in Global South
- Professor Sunil Manghani and Professor Ed D’Souza, Listening Machine: Empowering Community-Based Learning
- Katerina Porter, Exploring the Potential of Artificial Intelligence in the Response to Domestic Abuse