Matters relating to the field of machine learning – a component of artificial intelligence (AI)
Tom is an ML Research Scientist at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) AI Lab, where he researches and develops ML systems for monitoring and adapting to climate change. His work currently focusses on the application and implementation of neural processes in environmental sciences. Tom has used uncertainty quantification, interpretability, and active learning methods to build […]
Iain Styles is Professor of Computer Science at Queen’s University Belfast. He was previously at the University of Birmingham, where he was the Founding Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Science and AI, Turing University Lead, and PI and Director of the EPSRC-funded Baskerville Tier 2 High Performance Computing Facility. His principle research interest […]
Dr Rossella Arcucciis a Lecturer in Data Science and Machine Learning at Imperial College London (ICL). She is an elected member of the World Meteorological Organization and the elected speaker of the AI Network of Excellence at ICL where she represents more than 270 academics working on AI. She has been with the Data Science […]
Tom August is a computational ecologist at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. His research focuses on the use of technology to better our understanding of biodiversity, both through innovative data collection methods and engaging communications. Tom comes from a background in field and applied ecology, now focussing on applying AI methods to improve […]
Dr Peter Battaglia, Google DeepMind provided a presentation on the use of AI in medium range global weather forecasting. Peter Battaglia is a Research Scientist/Director at DeepMind. His work focuses on approaches for modelling and reasoning about complex systems, by combining richly structured knowledge with flexible learning algorithms. In this webinar, Peter presented his recent […]
Dr Sari Giering, NOC and Dr Robert Blackwell, CEFAS provided a joint overview of the role and opportunity of AI in oceanic plankton monitoring. Sari is a researcher at the National Oceanography Centre. Her research interests focus on how marine organisms influence the capacity of the ocean to store carbon. Her research combines shipboard measurements, […]
We have been trying out the rather amazing OpenAI tool ‘ChatGPT‘. This extraordinary online tool (https://chat.openai.com) provides the latest in AI. We asked it what it was and it answered ‘ChatGPT is a large language model that uses deep learning to generate human-like text. It is trained on a diverse set of internet text to […]
On Friday 25th February, we were pleased to welcome Michael Hollaway, Tom August and Michael Tso from UKCEH, to present their webinar entitled ‘DataLabs – Tales from the frontline of data science’. Their talk brought to a conclusion our ‘Data management and analytical tools for environmental science’ webinar series. Mike is a Senior Data Scientist […]
On Thursday 17th December, we were delighted to have Professor Norman Fenton, Queen Mary London University, present his webinar entitled, ‘Why Big Data and AI machine learning will never work for critical problems of risk assessment – causal reasoning and knowledge to the rescue’. Norman is a well-respected and widely published author with over 300 […]
We are pleased to be able to announce the winning teams for the first two events in the NERC COVID-19 Digital Sprint Hackathons – Air Quality and Recovery. We had some really fantastic entries to choose amongst and the judging panels had a hard job. But after much deliberation, the woinners to date are announced […]