Current Grant Portfolio
Below is a list of grants that are currently active in The School of Computer Science.
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| Grant Title | Awarded to | Awarding Body | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accelerating Software Development and Improving Test Quality using Gamification | José Miguel Rojas | EPSRC | 22/01/2024 | 31/10/2025 |
| ActiveAI: active learning and selective attention for robust, transparent and efficient AI | Mike Mangan | EPSRC | 01/11/2019 | 31/10/2024 |
| Adaptive AI-enabled and Context-enhanced Mobile Intelligence for Climate-smart Pest Management to Optimise Sustainable and Resilient Farming | Po Yang | Innovate UK | 01/04/2023 | 31/03/2025 |
| AdSoLve: Addressing socio-technical limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs) for medical and social computing | Nikos Aletras | RAI (EPSRC) | 01/05/2024 | 31/03/2028 |
| Advancing Acoustic AI Technology for Low-cost Tuberculosis Screening | Ning Ma | EPSRC | 02/04/2024 | 30/06/2025 |
| Advancing Cardiac Care through Multi-Modal Data Integration for Precise Scar Mapping | Chen Chen | Royal Society | 01/10/2024 | 30/09/2025 |
| AI-CARE: Prostate Cancer Digital Twin | Daniele Tartarini | EPSRC | 01/04/2024 | 31/03/2025 |
| AI-enhanced Climate-Smart Fertiliser Management for Sustainable and Resilient Farming | Po Yang | Innovate UK | 01/01/2024 | 30/06/2026 |
| ASIMOV: AI-as-a-service | Xingyi Song | Innovate UK | 01/01/2024 | 31/12/2024 |
| ATRIUM: Advancing FronTier Research In the Arts and hUManities | Kalina Bontcheva | Horizon Europe | 01/01/2024 | 31/12/2027 |
| Based Integration of ASR and MT in Spoken Language Translation | Thomas Hain | Industrial | 01/03/2014 | 31/12/2025 |
| BOOM: A Digital Twin for Designing Bladder Treatment Informed By Bladder Outlet Obstruction Mechanobiology | Paul Watton | Government | 01/08/2023 | 31/07/2028 |
| Bootstrap percolation in random graphs | Maksim Zhukovskii | Royal Society | 31/03/2024 | 30/03/2026 |
| Capacity Building and Computing Technologies for Healthcare: An Application in Transforming Mental Health Research and Services in Vietnam | Paul Watton | Charity | 25/03/2024 | 24/03/2025 |
| CAVAA: Counterfactual Assessment and Valuation for Awareness Architecture | Tony Prescott | Horizon Europe | 01/10/2022 | 30/09/2026 |
| Challenges to Revolutionise Hearing Device Processing | Jon Barker | EPSRC | 01/10/2019 | 31/10/2025 |
| CITCoM: Casual Inference for Testing of Computational Models | Neil Walkinshaw | EPSRC | 01/01/2021 | 28/02/2025 |
| Cyclic Reasoning Mechanisms for Interactive Theorem Proving | Andrei Popescu | Charity | 01/08/2021 | 01/03/2025 |
| Deep learning of articulatory-based representations of dysarthric speech | Heidi Christensen | Industrial | 01/03/2016 | 31/12/2025 |
| Development of an AI-driven Imaging Analysis System with Low-cost Equipment for Fast Onsite Quantification of Plant-parasitic Nematodes | Po Yang | Innovate UK | 01/09/2024 | 28/02/2025 |
| Distinguishing Common and Proper Nouns | Mark Stevenson | Industrial | 01/03/2011 | 31/12/2024 |
| Efficient Deployment of Large Language Models for Industrial Applications | Nikos Aletras | Industrial | 01/07/2024 | 31/07/2025 |
| Electric Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) and machine learning-based decision support system for early diagnosis of oral cancer | Dawn Walker | Charity | 01/03/2024 | 28/02/2027 |
| EnhanceMusic: Machine Learning Challenges to Revolutionise Music Listening for People with Hearing Loss, | Jon Barker | EPSRC | 01/06/2022 | 30/11/2026 |
| ESPERANTO: Exchanges for SPEech ReseArch aNd TechnOlogies | Nikos Aletras | EU H2020 | 01/01/2021 | 31/12/2025 |
| ExU: AI Models for Examining Multilingual Disinformation Narratives and Understanding their Spread | Carolina Scarton | EU | 01/11/2023 | 30/05/2025 |
| Home Monitoring of Paediatric Sleep Disordered Breathing with Unobtrusive Sensors | Ning Ma | MRC | 01/05/2024 | 30/04/2025 |
| Imagining Technologies for Disability Futures | Tony Prescott | Charity | 01/01/2020 | 31/12/2024 |
| In-Procedure Personalized Atrial Digital Twin to Predict Outcome of Atrial Fibrillation | Richard Clayton | EPSRC | 01/04/2022 | 31/03/2026 |
| iNavigate: Brain-inspired technologies for intelligent navigation and mobility | Tony Prescott | EU H2020 | 01/12/2019 | 31/05/2025 |
| Influencing policy work on human rights violations against journalists | Diana Maynard | Research England | 01/09/2024 | 30/06/2025 |
| Knowledge Distillation empowered Mobile Intelligence Solution for Sustainable Management of Crop Pests and Soil Health | Po Yang | Innovate UK | 01/02/2024 | 31/01/2025 |
| Learning Representations of Higher-Order Structures for Networks via Tensor Embedding | Haiping Lu | Industrial | 01/04/2019 | 31/12/2024 |
| Logical approach to quantum mechanics and contextuality | Jonni Virtema | DFG | 06/09/2021 | 31/10/2024 |
| Measuring Human Attribution of Awareness to Robots | Tony Prescott | Charity | 01/12/2023 | 30/11/2025 |
| Modeling Idiomaticity in Human and Artificial Language Processing | Aline Villavicencio | EPSRC | 01/12/2020 | 30/11/2024 |
| Modeling probabilistic reinforcement learning and variable behaviour in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster | Eleni Vasilaki | Industrial | 01/05/2018 | 31/12/2024 |
| Modelling Cartilage Chemo-Mechanobiology with Application to Predicting Osteoarthritis Progression and Treatment | Paul Watton | Royal Society | 31/03/2024 | 30/03/2026 |
| PestGPT 2.0: Enhancing Mobile Intelligence with Knowledge Guided ChatGPT for Sustainable Pest Management |
Po Yang | Innovate UK | 01/08/2024 | 31/03/2025 |
| PPNMix: Knowledge Distillation empowered Automatic Molecular Identification Pipeline for Plant Parasitic Nematodes in Complex Mixtures |
Po Yang | Innovate UK | 01/08/2024 | 31/03/2025 |
| Quantitative verification of software families based on coalgebraic modal logic and games | Harsh Beohar | EPSRC | 01/12/2022 | 30/11/2024 |
| Real-time Reservoir Computing on Prosthetic Devices | Luca Manneschi | Charity | 31/03/2023 | 31/03/2025 |
| RoarQ: Robust and Reliable Quantum Computing | Phil McMinn | RCUK | 03/05/2023 | 31/03/2026 |
| Safe and secure COncurrent programming for adVancEd aRchiTectures (COVERT) | John Derrick | EPSRC | 01/07/2023 | 30/11/2026 |
| Security of Digital Twins in Manufacturing | John Clark | EPSRC | 07/10/2021 | 31/01/2025 |
| SimpliFaiS: Simplification of Failure Scenarios for Machine Learning-enabled Autonomous Systems | Donghwan Shin | EPSRC | 01/01/2024 | 30/06/2026 |
| SoBigData ++: An Integrated Infrastructures for Social Mining and Big Data Analytics | Kalina Bontcheva | EU H2020 | 01/01/2020 | 31/12/2024 |
| SoBigData PPP: SoBigData RI Preparatory Phase Project | Kalina Bontcheva | Horizon Europe | 01/10/2022 | 30/09/2025 |
| Synthesising characteristic formulae and apartness proofs for coalgebras | Harsh Beohar | Charity | 31/03/2023 | 30/03/2025 |
| TENACITy: Travelling Intelligence Against Crime and Terrorism | Vita Lanfranchi | Horizon Europe | 01/10/2022 | 30/09/2025 |
| Test FLARE: Test Flakiness Automated Reproduction and Explanation | Phil McMinn | RCUK | 02/10/2023 | 01/02/2027 |
| Toolkit for Analysing and Visualising Online Violence Against Female Journalists | Diana Maynard | EPSRC | 01/04/2024 | 31/03/2025 |
| The automated coding of expressed emotion to enhance clinical and epidemiological mental health research in adolescence | Heidi Christensen | MRC | 01/11/2022 | 31/10/2024 |
| The SofTMech Statistical Emulation and Translation Hub | Richard Clayton | EPSRC | 01/03/2021 | 28/02/2025 |
| Transforming Parkinson's disease clinical management with integrated digital health technologies |
Vita Lanfranchi | EPSRC | 10/01/2023 | 30/06/2025 |
| UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Speech and Language Technologies and their Applications | Thomas Hain | UKRI | 01/04/2019 | 30/07/2027 |
| UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Node in Verifiability | Rob Hierons | UKRI | 01/11/2020 | 31/10/2024 |
| Using Data Driven Artificial Intelligence to Reveal Pesticide Induced Changes in Pollinator Behaviour | Mike Smith | BBSRC | 14/02/2024 | 13/08/2025 |
| vera.ai: VERification Assisted by Artificial Intelligence | Kalina Bontcheva | Horizon Europe | 01/09/2022 | 31/08/2025 |
| VIGILANT: Vital IntelliGence to Investigate ILlegAl DisiNformaTion | Carolina Scarton | Horizon Europe | 01/11/2022 | 31/10/2025 |
| VIM: towards a Vision based System for Inventory Management with Deep Learning | Zhixiang Chen | EPSRC | 15/01/2024 | 14/01/2026 |
| VoiceBase Centre | Thomas Hain | Industrial | 01/04/2018 | 31/03/2026 |
| XAI-PPN: Interpretable AI-enabled Automatic Identification Pipeline for Plant-Parasitic Nematodes in Complex Mixtures | Po Yang | EPSRC | 01/04/2024 | 31/03/2025 |