2019

Informatics teacher Auroa Constantin has completed her Edinburgh Teaching Award Category 2, accredited through Advance HE’s Higher Education Academy.

Justin Glibert and Jay Yeung are amongst the winners of Pioneer’s technological tournament, securing funding for their AI platform that provides automated customer support

SIGINT Cyber Security Society members Gwion, Wiktor and Ally won the national competition for the second year in a row, beating teams from all over the country.

Two School of Informatics alumni have gone on to win Startup of the Year at the 2019 Scottish Tech Startup Awards for their company Speech Graphics

Professor Mirella Lapata has been selected as one of six 2019 Fellows of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) for her work in machine and human learning and natural language processing.

Research Associate Cristina Alexandru recently completed her Edinburgh Teaching Award Category 3, accredited through Advance HE’s Higher Education Academy. In achieving this Alexandru has also become a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).

Wenfei Fan has been elected as a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications is changing its name to Artificial Intelligence and its Applications Institute.

A gardening robot has been developed that can self-navigate and automatically prune roses and trim bushes.

Mirella Lapata will give this year’s Karen Spärck Jones lecture on "Translating from Multiple Modalities to Text and Back" on 23rd October at Imperial College in London.

Edinburgh scientists have demonstrated their latest robotics technology developed for the renewable energy sector as part of a multimillion-pound collaboration.

Vaishak Belle is one of 43 new Royal Society University Research Fellows (URFs) for 2019. He took up the post from the start of October. He will work on Efficient Inference and Learning in Probabilistic Logical Models.

Who Twitter users follow and what they like are more accurate predictors of their views than what they write, a study suggests.

The School of Informatics opens its doors to visitors this weekend.

Researchers from the School of Informatics are working on a major UK research project, the Smart Energy Research Lab (SERL). The project will utilise household energy consumption data from smart meters to fuel a new wave of innovative energy research. This research will help make the UK’s energy more efficient, sustainable and affordable.

A team of Edinburgh students has won a driverless race car competition for the second year in a row. The team developed AI software allowing the car to race around Silverstone circuit at the world’s largest student competition – Formula Student.

A team of scientists, led by School of Informatics Barbara Webb, used their knowledge of insect anatomy to build a sophisticated computer model determining how they estimate their direction of travel.

Edinburgh students including representation from Informatics is competing in the finals of one of the world’s most prestigious engineering challenges.

Edinburgh Informatics researchers, in collaboration with colleagues from University College London, University of Sheffield, BBC and Deutsche Welle, have developed a system that will help journalist monitor media sources – a task that has become too big to handle for newsrooms with the development of the internet and digital media.

Researchers from Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt Universities, including Informatics Vaishak Belle, Jane Hillston, Michael Rovatsos and Ewa Luger have proposed a new research agenda in which artists and scientists come together, called Experiential AI.

Elham Kashefi, Chris Heunen, Myrto Arapinis and Petros Wallden will be working on a multimillion project that was announced on 11th July.

Benjamin Bach won one of the Eurographics Young Researcher of the Year Awards, given each year to two young researchers in the field of visualisation to recognize people early on in their career who have already made a notable contribution and are likely to make more. 

Carl Allen and Timothy Hospedales recently received a Best Paper Honourable Mention at the world’s largest conference in Machine Learning for explaining a curious phenomenon found amongst word representations.

An interactive touchscreen display has been installed in the Bayes Centre foyer, providing further information about the NASA Valkyrie.

Two Informatics students, Antreas Antoniou (Data Science) and Andrew Brock (Robotics and Autonomous Systems), are shortlisted for UK Open Source Awards in the student category.

In a review article for Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery Informatics researchers are looking into the impact of quantum computing and quantum technologies on cyber security.

Informatics researchers will be presenting next week at the grassroots science festival Pint of Science in The Tron pub in Edinburgh.

Informatics alumnus and a former research associate in LFCS secured $5M seed investment for his financial technology start-up Imandra Inc. to help it move towards new areas of application for their innovative AI technology.

First ever quantum hackathon in Scotland will be held in the School of Informatics in July 2019

Over 900 delegates took part in this year’s Engage Invest Exploit, Informatics Ventures flagship annual technology investor showcase featuring Scotland´s most promising innovative, data-driven high growth companies, seeking funding.

Two students from Informatics have been awarded 2019 Google Fellowships. Nicolai Oswald received funding in the area of Systems and Networking and Reinald Kim Amplayo in Natural Language Processing.

School of Informatics staff are involved in numerous events at the Edinburgh International Science Festival.

Professor Geoffrey Hinton who graduated from Edinburgh University is one of the three recipients of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award, along with Professors Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun. The award is for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.

Mirella Lapata has been appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Miltos Allamanis, Informatics graduate from 2017 won this year’s Distinguished Dissertation, a prestigious academic award, run jointly by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, in collaboration with the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC).

The security of smart domestic appliances that can be managed remotely must be improved to better protect users’ privacy, research suggests.

Postgraduate programmes in artificial intelligence at the University are being supported as part of a package of funding announced by the UK Government.

A first-year university student has become an online sensation, offering expert advice on DIY robotics and computer programming.

A series of public panel discussions about Artificial Intelligence with speakers from across disciplines including informatics, humanities, and social sciences as well as the industry starts next week with a discussion covering big data and privacy.

University scientists are to collaborate with three major Japanese research institutes on artificial intelligence and robotics.