UKRI Centre of Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI PhD student (the STAI CDT), Matt MacDermott, won the Best Paper Award at TARK 2023 for the paper, ‘On Imperfect Recall in Multi-Agent Influence Diagrams’, with co-authors James Fox, Lewis Hammond, Paul...
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Wenxi Wu has paper ‘S*: On Safe and Time Efficient Robot Motion Planning’ accepted to ICRA 2023
Wenxi Wu, a student (2022 cohort) in the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI (the STAI CDT) has published the paper ‘S*: On Safe and Time Efficient Robot Motion Planning’ at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA...
Alexander Goodall, Fabrizio Russo, Madeleine Waller and Munkhtulga Battogtokh have papers accepted to ECAI 2023
We are thrilled to announce that PhD students from the Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI – the STAI CDT – Alexander Goodall (2022 cohort), Fabrizio Russo (2020 cohort), Madeleine Waller (2021 cohort) and Munkhtulga Battogtokh have had papers accepted...
2023 Workshop on Safe and Trustworthy AI (STAI 23)
PhD students from the Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI – the STAI CDT – C Henrik R Åslund (2019 cohort) and Francis Rhys Ward (2020 cohort) were co-organisers of the 2023 Workshop on Safe and Trustworthy AI (STAI 23), along with Dr Elizabeth Black...
Anna Gausen and Madeleine Waller accepted on to Turing Enrichment Scheme 2023
PhD students from the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI (the STAI CDT) Anna Gausen (2020 cohort) and Madeleine Waller (2021 cohort) have been accepted on to the Turing Enrichment Scheme for 2023/24. This competitive scheme gives UK university...
Chiara Di Bonaventura on her experience at the International Semantic Web Research Summer School
Chiara Di Bonaventura, PhD student (2022 cohort) from the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI (the STAI CDT), recently attended the International Semantic Web Research Summer School (ISWS) which was held in Bertinoro, Italy in July 2023. The ISWS...
AI ethics – Q & A with Jazon Szabo and Mackenzie Jorgensen
Jazon Szabo and Mackenzie Jorgensen, both PhD students in the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI (the STAI CDT), talk to us about the AI Ethics reading group that they run. Tell us a bit about the AI Ethics reading group – how long has it been...
STAI CDT Summer School 2023
The STAI CDT Summer School was held in-person at Imperial College London across 17-19 July 2023. The summer school featured six invited talks by world-class researchers on cutting-edge topics on AI and its applications, including cooperative multi-agent systems,...
Patrick Henriksen presents paper, ‘Verification-friendly Networks: the Case for Parametric ReLUs’, at IJCNN 2023
Patrick Henriksen (2019 cohort) presented a paper, ‘Verification-friendly Networks: the Case for Parametric ReLUs’, at the 36th International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN23) at the Gold Coast, Australia. IJCNN is the premier international conference in...
STAI CDT at King’s Festival of AI: ‘The Genius and Stupidity of AI’
STAI CDT PhD students Matt MacDermott, Avinash Kori, Benedikt Brückner and Shahin Honarvar took part in the King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence with their demonstration, ‘The Genius and Stupidity of AI’. Their demonstration encouraged visitors...
STAI CDT at King’s Festival of AI: ‘Fantastic (Artificial) Beasts and Where to Find Them’
STAI CDT PhD students Chiara Di Bonaventura (2022 cohort) and Michelle Nwachukwu (2022 cohort) took part in the recent King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence with their family-friendly workshop, ‘Fantastic (Artificial) Beasts and Where to Find Them’. ...
Lennart Wachowiak presents paper and poster at the Explainable Robotics Workshop at ICRA 2023
STAI CDT PhD student, Lennart Wachowiak (2021 cohort), presented a paper and poster on “A Survey of Evaluation Methods and Metrics for Explanations in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)” at the Explainable Robotics Workshop at IEEE International Conference on Robotics...
STAI CDT at King’s Festival of AI: ‘Brewing the Future’
STAI CDT PhD students Lennart Wachowiak (2021 cohort) and Peter Tisnikar (2021 cohort) took part in the recent King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence with a demonstration, ‘Brewing the Future’. Lennart, Peter and Dr Gerard Canal’s demo explored collaboration...
Q & A with STAI CDT student Zoe Evans for the Festival of Robotics 2023
This week is the Festival of Robotics 2023 (formerly known as National Robotics Week). To mark this we spoke to STAI CDT student Zoe Evans (2022 cohort) about her research and interest in robotics. What are you working on at the moment? For my PhD, I'm working on...
STAI CDT at King’s Festival of AI: ‘AI learns to play a video game’
STAI CDT PhD students Philipp Alex Rader, Alex Goodall and Tibi Georgescu (2022 cohort) took part in the recent King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence with their demonstration, ‘AI learns to play a video game’. Their demo challenged visitors to beat an AI that was...
STAI CDT at King’s Festival of AI: ‘Can you help me?’
STAI CDT PhD student Nathan Gavenski (2022 cohort) took part in the recent King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence with his demonstration, ‘Can you help me?’. Nathan’s demo invited visitors to interact with Jade, an artificial intelligence, to help it to...
STAI CDT at King’s Festival of AI: ‘Synthetica – The Future of Music’
STAI CDT PhD students Madeleine Waller (2021 cohort), Michelle Nwachukwu (2022 cohort), Usman Islam (2022 cohort) and Stefan Roesch (2022 cohort) took part in the recent King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence with their demonstration, ‘Synthetica: the...
Safe and Trusted AI Summer School 2023 – Registrations now open
The UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI (STAI CDT) is excited to announce registrations are open for the upcoming Safe and Trusted AI Summer School. The Safe and Trusted AI Summer School will be held at Imperial College London from 17 – 19 July...
Munkhtulga Battogtokh’s project AHA! features in two upcoming exhibitions on AI
STAI CDT PhD student, Munkhtulga Battogtokh (2020 cohort) has collaborated with visual artist Alice White on his project AHA! (Art Human & AI). In AHA! Munkhtulga explores how art can contribute to AI development and to our understanding of how the human mind...
Aamal Hussain, Luke Thorburn, Patrick Henriksen and Nathan Gavenski have papers accepted to AI conferences: IJCAI 2023, ICML 2023 and IJCNN 2023
We are excited to announce that Aamal Hussain, Luke Thorburn, Patrick Henriksen and Nathan Gavenski have had papers accepted to three of the leading conferences on research in AI: IJCAI 2023, ICML 2023 and IJCNN 2023. The 32nd International Joint Conference on...
Changes to the STAI CDT leadership team
Michael Luck, Professor of Computer Science at King’s College London, is stepping down as Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI (the STAI CDT), as he will be leaving King’s later this year to join the University of Sussex, where he...
Matthew MacDermott, Alexander Goodall and Richard Willis have papers accepted to AAMAS 2023 workshops
We are thrilled to announce that Matthew MacDermott (2021 cohort), Alexander Goodall (2022 cohort) and Richard Willis (2020 cohort) have had papers accepted to workshops at this year's 22 nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS...
Safe and Trustworthy AI Workshop 2022
Nandi Schoots (2019 cohort), C Henrik R Åslund (2019 cohort), Dylan Cope (2019 cohort), Matt MacDermott (2021 cohort) and Francis Rhys Ward (2020 cohort) of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI, were the organisers of the Safe and Trustworthy...
UKRI CDT in Safe and Trusted AI Welcomes its fourth cohort
The UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Safe and Trusted AI welcomes its fourth cohort. This week, the CDT welcomed a new cohort of 14 students from across King’s and Imperial, all who share a passion for ensuring the safety and trustworthiness of AI....
Dr Elizabeth Black advising new government taskforce on how AI can help UK reach climate change targets
Dr Elizabeth Black, Co-Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence, has been appointed to the Advisory Group of the new Energy Digitalisation Taskforce (EDiT). The taskforce will continue...
STAI Director judges AI innovation
Professor Michael Luck, Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI, is one of the expert judges at CogX 2021, a Festival of AI and Transformation Technology, taking place between 14 and 16 June 2021 in London. The judges, described by...
UKRI CDT in Safe and Trusted AI Welcomes its Second Cohort
The UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence has welcomed its second cohort to King’s and Imperial. The students have an exciting year of training and events coming up. In October 2020 at its induction event, the CDT welcomed...
Professor Francesca Toni appointed to collaborate with industry on world-leading AI research
Professor Francesca Toni, Co-Director of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI, has been appointed by the Royal Academy of Engineering to one of four new Research Chairs, who will spend the next five years working closely with industry on a broad...
Professor Michael Luck elected fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence
Professor Michael Luck, Director of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI, is elected as a 2020 EurAI Fellow by the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI). Read more at King's Spotlight on Research.
UKRI CDT in Safe and Trusted AI moves online!
With the move to working from home resulting from COVID-19, and much uncertainty in the higher education sector, the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence has moved online. The Centre continues to offer student training...