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Centre news 2024/25
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Anirbit Mukherjee joins CFE-CMStatistics 2025
13/02/2025Anirbit Mukherjee has been appointed to the Senior Program Committee of the CFE-CMStatistics 2025 conference.
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ELLIS Manchester Summer School: Registration open
08/02/2025The 2025 ELLIS Manchester Summer School on Machine Learning for Healthcare and Biology is now open for registration. Initial speakers have been announced. For full details, visit the Ellis Manchester website.
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Key paper: Global Convergence of SGD on Two Layer Neural Nets
06/02/2025Anirbit Mukherjee and Pulkit Gopalani (University of Michigan) have published a key new paper in Information and Inference: a Journal of the IMA. You can see full details on our Research Explorer.
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Research positions available in AI
15/01/2025Applicants are invited for the posts of Research Associate or Research Fellow in Machine Learning to work with AI Researchers in the Centre for AI Fundamentals at The University of Manchester. Two posts are available and applications close on 7 Feb 2025. Please visit the University jobs page for full details.
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AI-Fun welcomes new colleagues
01/11/2024Isabel Machado joined us as an internal appointment in October as our new Project Officer and has really hit the ground running, with several projects already making excellent progress; Haripriya Harikumar joins as our new Postdoctoral Research Fellow, who will be a key part of Sami Kaski’s Turing AI World-Leading Fellowship; and Andi Zhang, who will take up a postdoctoral research position at Manchester working with the AI Hub in Generative Models.
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AI-Fun and ELLIS at NeurIPS 2024
15/10/2024Our Centre for AI Fundamentals and ELLIS Unit will be well-represented at the Neural Information Processing Systems Conference (NeurIPS) 2024, with a number of papers accepted and being presented in Vancouver from 10 to 15 December 2024. Visit NeurIPS's conference listing page for further details.
University AI news
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Artificial Intelligence reveals prostate cancer is not just one disease
1 Mar 2024
Artificial Intelligence has helped scientists reveal a new form of aggressive prostate cancer which could revolutionise how the disease is diagnosed ...
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Manchester resilience researchers awarded £4.2 million to help build a secure world
26 Feb 2024
Manchester’s researchers are on a mission to tackle some of the UK’s most challenging resilience and security problems.
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ID Manchester - Renold building to become new innovation hub
22 Feb 2024
Renold building will be a focal point for science, technology, and innovation related activities.
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Universities secure £12 million boost for AI innovation
6 Feb 2024
The University of Manchester is to be part of a research hub, led by the University of Edinburgh, that will focus on developing AI tools to help ...
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Machine learning predicts response to drug for arthritis in children
16 Jan 2024
Doctors might one day be able to target children and young people with arthritis most likely to be helped by its first-line treatment, thanks to the ...
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Shadow Minister discusses emissions and innovation during visit to University of Manchester
16 Jan 2024
The Shadow Minister for Aviation and Maritime, Mike Kane MP, has visited The University of Manchester to meet academics leading research on the urgent...
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Christabel Pankhurst Institute for Health Technology and Innovation officially opens flagship building
16 Nov 2023
Today (Thursday 16 November) saw the official opening the flagship building of the multimillion-pound research and innovation institute that builds on...
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University of Manchester to lead Sellafield’s new Centre of Expertise in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
9 Nov 2023
The University of Manchester will lead an academic consortium to support Sellafield’s new Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Centre of Expertise.
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University to train next generation of AI researchers in new UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training
31 Oct 2023
The University of Manchester has been awarded funding for a new UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Decision Making for Complex Systems.
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The University of Manchester showcases AI and robotics research to the Minister for AI and Intellectual Property
1 Sep 2023
The University of Manchester has welcomed the Minister for AI and Intellectual Property to learn about its cutting-edge research into AI and Robotics ...
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Public consultation launches for new £1.7bn innovation district ID Manchester
14 Jul 2023
Images of the illustrative masterplan for Manchester’s trailblazing new city centre innovation district have been revealed as ID Manchester’s ...
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