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Centre for Machine Intelligence

Who We Are | Centre for Machine Intelligence

We are a world-leading group of researchers, thinkers, and entrepreneurs.

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The Centre for Machine Intelligence was initiated by the department of Electronics and Computer Science and is a centre of expertise for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Autonomous Systems. We work with industry, policy makers, and the general public to address both national and global challenges.

Centre for Machine Intelligence Board

Sarvapali (Gopal) Ramchurn

Gopal is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Turing Fellow, and the director of the CMI. He has over 15 years of experience in the field of Artificial Intelligence and has won multiple awards for his work.

Baharak Rastegari

Baharak is a lecturer in the Agents, Interaction and Complexity (AIC) research group at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton. She received her Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada.

Enrico Gerding

Dr Enrico Gerding is an Associate Professor. He specialises in Game Theory and Mechanism design and consults for major e-commerce and smart transportation companies.

Thanassis Tiropanis

Thanassis is associate professor and is interested in distributed linked data infrastructures, the Internet of Things, and linked data. He is part of the PETRAS project.

Corina Cirstea

Corina Cirstea is a lecturer and holds a DPhil in Computation from the University of Oxford (2000). She was the holder of a Junior Research Fellowship in Computer Science at St. John's College Oxford prior to joining Southampton.

Jonathon Hare

Jonathon's research interests lie in the area of multimedia data mining, analysis and retrieval, with a particular focus on large-scale multimodal approaches. This research area is at the convergence of machine learning and computer vision.

Steering Committee

The members of the committee include respected academics and representatives from Industry. Under their guidance, the CMI aims to broaden its impact and reach out to communities employing machine intelligence in their research and practice. Our current members are:

  • Themis Prodromakis 
  • Stephen Prior
  • Steve Beeby
  • Tim Norman
  • Elena Simperl
  • Michalis Zervas
  • Koushik Maharatna

 

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Prof. Elena Simperl FBCS

Professor of Computer Science

Elena Simperl is professor of computer science at the University of Southampton and director of the Southampton Data Science Academy. She is also one of the Directors of the Web Science Institute and a Turing Fellow. Before joining Southampton in 2012, she was assistant professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany (2010-12) and vice-director of the Semantic Technologies Institute (STI) Innsbruck, Austria (2007-10). She has contributed to more than 20 research projects, often as principal investigator or project lead. Currently she is the PI of four grants: the EU-funded Data Pitch, which supports SMEs to innovate with data, the EU-funded QROWD, which uses crowd and artificial intelligence to improve smart transportation systems, the EPSRC-funded Data Stories, which works on methods and tools to make data more engaging, and the EU funded ACTION, which develops social computing methods for citizen science. She authored more than 100 papers in semantic technologies, linked data, social computing and crowdsourcing and was programme/general chair of the European and International Semantic Web Conference and of the European Data Forum.

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Steffen Staab 

Professor for Web and Computer Science

My Research: How can computers know something about the world? In my research I am interested in how computers can have explicit or implicit knowledge. Explicit knowledge can be organized in huge knowledge graphs. They may capture data bases, but typically go beyond in expressivity and range. I research how to manage knowledge graphs and how to exploit them by querying or machine learning. Implicit knowledge may be derived from data and in particular from text. There, I am interested how to uncover implicit knowledge using text and data mining, information extraction and text clustering.

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Dr. Kate Farrahi 

Lecturer

My Research: The focus of my research is on machine learning applied to large scale time series datasets with a focus on health-related applications. Examples including mobile phone and wearable sensor datasets. Applications of my work have included epidemics, mental health, human activity recognition, and Parkinson's Disease prediction. More recent work that is not health-related includes natural language processing, and an information-theoretical approach to understanding deep learning.

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Dr. Danesh Tarapore 

Lecturer

My research: Dr. Tarapore’s research is interdisciplinary in nature, focused on understanding biological systems, and developing bio-inspired approaches to the design of fault-tolerant and resilient robots. Through the development and application of theoretical models, agent-based models, multi-scale stochastic simulations, and the physical instantiation of biological models in robots, he has addressed a diverse range of important problems in task allocation and division of labour in large-scale multiagent systems, immunological maintenance of self-tolerance in the adaptive immune system, and fault-detection and fault-tolerance for both single-robot systems, and large-scale robot swarms. Through addressing such diverse problems, Danesh has gained expertise in a wide range of fields besides robotics, including: bio-inspired learning algorithms, swarm intelligence, robot behaviour representation, and evolutionary robotics.

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Dr. Paolo Pareti 

Research Fellow

I am interested in explainable intelligent systems that can be understood, diagnosed and managed by non-expert users. As part of my research I develop techniques to provide natural language interfaces to large knowledge bases, using a mix of semantic, reasoning and machine learning methods. I am particularly interested in systems that can be used by communities of users, and I adopt crowdsourcing approaches both to evaluate such systems, and as a mechanism for deployment. I am currently involved in the ASSET project, where I research automated ways to manage health and safety policies in hazardous workplaces using sensor data.

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Dr. Jie Zhang 

Lecturer

Jie Zhang works on fundamental aspects of Algorithmic Game Theory. It involves the design of algorithms for effectively and efficiently allocating limited resources, as well as determining payments, in order to meet desirable objectives such as fairness, profit maximisation and to incentivise good behaviour. It employs mathematical rigor tools to evaluate the designed mechanisms from the worst- and average-case perspectives, and conduct analyses that continuously interpolates between these two.

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Prof. Mike Wald 

Professor of Computer Science

Professor Mike Wald leads research into accessible technologies in the Web and Internet Science Group, ECS, University of Southampton. He has had many years of experience working with disabled users in research, development, support and provision of knowledge in the areas of disability, assistive technology and digital accessibility. He was a founder member of the International Liberated Learning Consortium that included leading universities and organisations investigating how speech recognition captioning and transcription could be enhanced. Over 20,000 people in more than 150 countries have enrolled on his online inclusion and digital accessibility courses.

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Dr. Sebastian Stein 

Associate Professor

Dr Sebastian Stein’s research focusses on resource allocation problems in multi-agent systems, where he is applying techniques from mechanism design, incentive engineering and decision-making under uncertainty. He is passionate about applying his work to addressing important societal challenges and he has worked on electric vehicle (EV) charging, intelligent transportation systems, crowdsourcing , participatory sensing for pollution monitoring and cloud systems.

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Dr. Stuart Middleton 

Senior Research Engineer

My research interest lies in the area between natural language processing and information extraction, developing novel algorithms to discover and exploit patterns in free text and metadata to extract actionable human intelligence and machine-readable knowledge. In a juxtaposition to deep learning and big data approaches, my research has focussed on developing novel solutions to problems where training sets are small, sparse or fragmented in nature. I am interested in investigating emergent patterns in language use by communities, how domain knowledge and expert feedback can bootstrap algorithms and approaches that can preserve domain semantics, provenance and promote explainable AI.

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Prof. Kirk Martinez 

Professor of Computer Science

My research creates solutions to environmental sensing problems. Previous research includes novel sensor networks in glaciers using new networks and decision making algorithms. Current research is into semi-autonomous UAVs aiding in the deployment and recovery of sensor network nodes on glaciers in Iceland.

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