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Lennart Wachowiak has paper accepted to HRI2024

Lennart Wachowiak has paper accepted to HRI2024

STAI CDT student Lennart Wachowiak has had the paper 'When Do People Want an Explanation from a Robot?' accepted at this year's upcoming 19th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2024). Lennart explains the aim of the research here:...

Fabrizio Russo presents paper at ECAI 2023

Fabrizio Russo presents paper at ECAI 2023

STAI CDT student Fabrizio Russo presented the paper 'Causal Discovery and Knowledge Injection for Contestable Neural Networks' at ECAI 2023. Fabrizio explains the paper and its impacts here; "We propose contestable neural networks: neural models whose outputs and...

STAI CDT students attend 2023 Turing CDT Conference

STAI CDT students attend 2023 Turing CDT Conference

Fifteen STAI CDT students attended the 2023 Turing CDT conference in Birmingham in November. The conference was an exciting opportunity for students to network with peers across other AI CDTs, engage with active research, hear from experts and join panel sessions and...

Munkhtulga Battogtokh presents paper at ECAI 2023

Munkhtulga Battogtokh presents paper at ECAI 2023

STAI CDT student Munkhtulga Battogtokh presented the paper “Simple Framework for Interpretable Fine-grained Text Classification” at the 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2023) in Kraków, Poland. Munkhtulga explains the paper here; "As machine...

Alexander Goodall presents paper at ECAI 2023

Alexander Goodall presents paper at ECAI 2023

STAI CDT student Alexander Goodall (2023 cohort) presented the paper “Approximate Model-based Shielding for Safe Reinforcement Learning” at the 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2023) in Kraków, Poland. Alexander explains the paper here; “We...

Mackenzie Jorgensen presents paper at AIES 2023

Mackenzie Jorgensen presents paper at AIES 2023

Mackenzie Jorgensen, (2020 STAI CDT PhD cohort) presented the paper 'Not So Fair: The Impact of Presumably Fair Machine Learning Models,' at the 6th AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES 23) in Montreal, Canada.  Mackenzie...

Q & A with STAI CDT’s first graduate Dr Patrick Henriksen

Q & A with STAI CDT’s first graduate Dr Patrick Henriksen

Huge congratulations to STAI CDT’s very first graduate, Dr Patrick Henriksen, on successfully defending his thesis, 'Robust Neural Networks: Verification, Training, and Repair'.   We spoke to Patrick about his PhD thesis, being part of STAI CDT and what his...

STAI CDT Annual Retreat 2023 

STAI CDT Annual Retreat 2023 

The STAI CDT Annual Retreat 2023 took place over two days in July and was an opportunity to bring all 4 cohorts together away from their normal environment for team building, workshops and tutorials. 41 of our students took part alongside the management team at...

Dylan Cope and Alex Jackson present papers at ALIFE 2023

Dylan Cope and Alex Jackson present papers at ALIFE 2023

Dylan Cope and Alex Jackson, PhD students in the UKRI Centre of Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI (the STAI CDT), presented papers at the Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2023) in Sapporo, Japan.  Dylan presented the paper, ‘Real-time Evolution of...

UKRI CDT in Safe and Trusted AI Welcomes its fifth cohort

UKRI CDT in Safe and Trusted AI Welcomes its fifth cohort

The UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Safe and Trusted AI welcomes its fifth cohort.   This week, the CDT welcomed a new cohort of 20 students from across King’s and Imperial, all who share a passion for ensuring the safety and trustworthiness of AI.   The...

2023 Workshop on Safe and Trustworthy AI (STAI 23)

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...

AI ethics – Q & A with Jazon Szabo and Mackenzie Jorgensen  

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

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,...

STAI CDT at King’s Festival of AI: ‘Brewing the Future’

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...

STAI CDT at King’s Festival of AI: ‘Can you help me?’

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...

Safe and Trusted AI Summer School 2023 – Registrations now open

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...

Changes to the STAI CDT leadership team

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...

Safe and Trustworthy AI Workshop 2022

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

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....

Safe and Trusted AI Summer School 2021

Safe and Trusted AI Summer School 2021

The Safe and Trusted AI Summer School 2021 took place online between 12 and 14 July. Guest speakers included world-leading academics and industry professionals. Summer Schools are core for STAI CDT PhD students and in 2021 we also welcomed the participation of some...

STAI Director judges AI innovation

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...

AI researcher and young writers imagine the future together

AI researcher and young writers imagine the future together

What do young people want from the world of the future? How do their hopes and fears intersect with safe and trusted artificial intelligence? To find out, Mackenzie Jorgensen, from the 2020 cohort of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted Artificial...

UKRI CDT in Safe and Trusted AI Welcomes its Second Cohort

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...

Keeping people safe online

Keeping people safe online

Cybersecurity experts from King’s College London are leading work for a new national centre to keep people safe online through research and technology. Read more at Spotlight on Research.

STAI CDT Virtual Retreat

STAI CDT Virtual Retreat

The UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Safe and Trusted AI (STAI) hosted its first annual retreat in July 2020. The retreat featured student presentations, an online social activity, and a consultation for staff and students to discuss how the first year of...

STAI CDT Students Complete Group Project with Royal Mail

STAI CDT Students Complete Group Project with Royal Mail

Students in the first cohort of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Safe and Trusted AI (STAI) have been working with our partner, Royal Mail, to investigate how AI techniques and telemetry data could be used to improve the trustworthiness of automatic...

UKRI CDT in Safe and Trusted AI moves online!

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...