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🎇SPOTLIGHT on Weiran Zhou 🎇
Weiran has been working with Dr Aisling Ann O'Kane at the #UniversityofBristol on exploring how #AI might support conversations and decision-making around end-of-life.
You can learn more about this work (with links) by visiting our website 👉 ai4ci.ac.uk/category/news/
The #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026 panel discussed Collective AI for Indian Society.
Topic's covered the rise of agentic AI, the need for transparency in public systems, amplifying citizens’ voice in policymaking, and using AI to tackle complex human problems.
#Watch👉 www.youtube.com/live/kun9t7k...
📢 PhD Studentship Opportunity
The #UniversityofBristol is inviting applications for a funded PhD project exploring: Collective Intelligence for LLM-Driven Financial Agents
APPLICATIONS CLOSE: 31st March 2026
Learn more about this studentship here 👉 ai4ci.ac.uk/join-the-team/
#FinancialStability
🎇SPOTLIGHT: Tatsuya Mitomi
Tatsuya has been working with Prof. Alison Heppenstall on creating geospatial urban simulations, with a particular emphasis on agent-based models and machine learning to analyse and model complex urban systems.
Learn more about Tatsuya's work👉 ai4ci.ac.uk/category/news/
AI4CI welcomed Dr Tom Wilkinson, Chief Data Officer #ScottishGovernment to discuss Scotland’s approach to data & public participation.
Listen to this fascinating presentation on how data could be utilised for collective intelligence and better government decision-making 👉 youtu.be/1yW1omYoxYw
🎇SPOTLIGHT: Mahdis Tourian
Mahdis is building smart agents & AI tools for nature recovery planning. Working closely with partners at Natural England & Natural Resources Wales, she aims to improve how biodiversity evidence is collected, accessed, and interpreted.
👉 ai4ci.ac.uk/category/news/
Spotlight⚡Adham Enaya
Adham's current focus is exploring how AI methods, particularly transfer learning and graph-based technologies, can be used to democratise access to advanced analytical tools.
Click through these slides to learn more, or read the full article here 👉 ai4ci.ac.uk/category/news/
The Edinburgh Public Forum - AI in the City (30/10/25) was such an insightful evening that we've decided to tell you all about it! Read our in-depth event write up here 👉 shorturl.at/yN6eE
Hungry for more? Well, you can also listen to the full unedited recording here 🎙️ shorturl.at/7gVb2
🎇 SPOTLIGHT: Meet Bid Oscar Hountondji, PhD Candidate, Environmental Intelligence #UniversityofExeter
Since joining AI4CI Oscar has been focusing on Smart Agents for Complex Environmental Data Analysis.
Learn more about Oscar by reading the full article on our website 👉 👉 lnkd.in/e5ycn_xi
Text: LEAP Community Sandpit. Friday 14 November. 10:30 - 14:30. Trinity Centre, Bristol. Photos of people talking around tables, a man and woman talking on a bench and two women talking and looking at a tablet device.
Join us in Bristol on 14 Nov for the LEAP Community Sandpit!
An interactive event bringing together health, academic, tech, charity & community professionals to co-create digital health solutions.
🔗 leap-hub.ac.uk/leap-communi...
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Also, our first workshop on cultural evolution at #alife2025: thanks to invited speakers James Borg and @uchiyama.bsky.social for their talks in session 1! In session 2, we had an interactive generative game with some creative creatures and cultures emerging. Thanks to all who came along 👾🦠
#AI4CI, #A&DS and #EFI are delighted to be hosting a #PublicForum on ‘AI in the City’ in historic #Edinburgh
📆 30th Oct 🕰️ 6pm-7.30pm 🏰 Edinburgh Futures Institute
Join us for a broad and rounded discussion between expert panellists
Get your FREE tickets here 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-in-the-...
🎇 SPOTLIGHT: Meet Dr Eva Christodoulaki
Since joining the team Eva has been using bond market transaction data from our industry partner #Propellant.digital identifying & categorising reporting errors & market anomalies
Read the full article on our website👉 lnkd.in/et-VGWUp
#FinancialStability
🦄 #TeamSmartCityDesign🦄
Prof. Alison Heppenstall gave a keynote talk at the European Colloquium of Quantitative and Theoretical Geography in beautiful Tallinn, Estonia.
Alison's talk was on 'Learning the City: AI-Driven Approaches to Complexity'. A great event!
🦄 #TeamSmartCityDesign🦄
Prof. Alison Heppenstall & Dr. Yahya Gamal attended the Social Simulation Conference at TU Delft, Netherlands
Presenting research on agent-based model of housing & advances in methods for quantifying spatial uncertainty.
Big thanks go to Delft University of Technology!
🎇 SPOTLIGHT: Meet Dr Yahya Gamal, Research Associate, Smart City Design
Yahya joined Prof. Alison Heppenstall at
@uofglasgow.bsky.social in 2024.
To learn more about what he's been up to click through these slides or read the full article on our website 👉 ai4ci.ac.uk/category/news/
🎇 SPOTLIGHT: Meet Dr Thomas Griffith, Research Associate, Human-Centered Design
Thom joined Prof. Philip Morgan at @cardiffuni.bsky.social back in 2024.
To learn more about what he's been up to click through these slides or read the full article on our website 👉 ai4ci.ac.uk/category/news/
🎇 SPOTLIGHT: Meet Dr Beatrice Taylor, Research Associate, Smart City Design
Bea joined Prof. @adamdennett.bsky.social at
@ucl.ac.uk back in Oct 2024.
To learn more about what she's been up to click through these slides or read the full article on our website 👉 ai4ci.ac.uk/category/news/
AI4CI Rapid Response Funding recipients!🥁
👉 Understanding Bias for Organisational ESG Behavioural Profiling.
Lead: Dr R. Arthur #UniversityOfExeter
👉 WARM-AIR: Wearable Assisted Respiratory Monitoring for Integrated Recognition of COPD Exacerbations
Lead: Prof. J. Dodd #UniversityOfBristol
AI4CI Rapid Response Funding recipients!🥁
👉 Using collective intelligence to model the cryptocurrency circular-economy.
Lead: Dr P. Corcoran #CardiffUni
👉 Embedding EDI in the Distribution of Research Funding: An AI-assisted Collective Intelligence Approach.
Lead: Prof. E. Pournaras, #UniofLeeds