Cambridge University - Partner in the Alan Turing Institute
Image:
Most Photos

Cambridge University - Partner in the Alan Turing Institute

The Alan Turing Institute to work with Visual Intelligence on AI research

The Alan Turing Institute and Visual Intelligence have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the intention to set up exciting avenues for joint research.

The Alan Turing Institute to work with Visual Intelligence on AI research

 

The Alan Turing Institute and Visual Intelligence have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the intention to set up mutually beneficial avenues for joint research.

Professor Robert Jenssen, Director of Visual Intelligence, is excited about the MoU:

- This strategic partnership with one of the best AI centres in the world will give many opportunities for excellent research and innovation. In my view, it is the strength of our consortium that has made us in Visual Intelligence an attractive partner for the Turing, as we are spanning academic groups, public institutions, and commercial companies, working on real problems and challenging data of importance both to the private and the public sector.

As first steps towards the collaboration, Visual Intelligence has employed Professor Mark Girolami at The Alan Turing Institute and at Cambridge University in an adjunct professor position to work on the development of new algorithms at the intersection of deep learning and uncertainty quantification. Visual Intelligence and the Turing are seeking opportunities to map out a collaboration around AI for wildlife monitoring.

- We at The Alan Turing Institute are delighted to be working alongside Visual Intelligence where together we are seeking to address some of the most pressing global challenges the planet faces. The AI technologies Visual Intelligence and the Turing research teams seek to work on will help to address for example threats to wildlife driven by climate change. We are looking forward to a productive, impactful, and enjoyable joint collaborative effort between our two institutions and countries, says Girolami.

- This will give our young researchers the opportunity to work and engage with The Alan Turing Institute for shorter and longer research collaborations, and vice versa. This is important for our strategy as a research centre to be at the international forefront, concludes Jenssen.

The Alan Turing Institute: https://www.turing.ac.uk/

News story in Norwegian: https://uit.no/nyheter/artikkel?p_document_id=735718

Professor Mark Girolami, Programme Director at Turing
Professor Robert Jenssen, Director of Visual Intelligence

Latest news

Visit by Prof. Pierre Baldi, University of California, Irvine

March 15, 2023

Prof. Pierre Baldi visited Visual Intelligence in Tromsø, February 16-17, 2023. The two days were filled with fruitful meetings on potential scientific collaboration between UCI and Visual Intelligence.

Visual Intelligence PhD students at UiT open day

March 6, 2023

Machine learning phd students from Visual Intelligence present at UiT The Arctic University of Norway's open day 2023, for recruitment of new students.

VIGS trip to Skibotn!

March 3, 2023

VIGS is Visual Intelligence's social and scientific initiative for phd students, postdocs and early career researchers! May 3-5 VIGS will organize a joint trip to UiT's field station in Indre Troms. Sign up and read more about the social and scientific program in out event!

Excellent PhD defense in the Visual Intelligence research centre

December 19, 2022

Stine Hansen with the defended her PhD thesis “Leveraging Supervoxels for Medical Image Volume Segmentation With Limited Supervision” on Dec. 16th at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

Report from the VIGS gathering in Tromsø

December 1, 2022

7-8 November VIGS organized a successful gathering for early career researchers in Tromsø. The program was filled with both a social and technical program and gathered around 20 researchers from the research partners in Visual Intelligence.

Visual Intelligence visits by Lars Kai Hansen and Irina Voiculescu

November 16, 2022

We had the great pleasure of hosting Lars Kai Hansen, Technical University of Denmark, and Irina Voiculescu, University of Oxford, at the Visual Intelligence centre in Tromsø.

Successful PhD defense in the Visual Intelligence research centre

November 14, 2022

Kristoffer Wickstrøm defended his PhD thesis “Advancing deep learning with emphasis on data-driven healthcare” on Oct 28 at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

Visual Intelligence paper accepted to NeurIPS

September 23, 2022

PhD student Srishti Gautam in Visual Intelligence and her collaborators from UiT The Arctic University of Norway and Technical University of Berlin got their paper "ProtoVAE: A Trustworthy Self-Explainable Prototypical Variational Model" accepted to NeurIPS 2022!

Great success for Visual Intelligence at Arendalsuka

August 18, 2022

It was absolutely packed with people when Visual Intelligence, NORA, and CAIR/UIA invited a strong panel to debate the future of healthcare with AI at Arendalsuka 2022!

Visual Intelligence guest researcher Ane Blazquez Garcia defends her PhD

July 30, 2022

Ane Blazquez Garcia, University of the Basque Country and the Ikerlan research institute, visited Visual Intelligence in the fall of 2021. Partially based on work conducted during this visit, she successfully defended her PhD thesis on July 27th 2022. Congratulations!

Visual Intelligence keynote at the 2022 Norwegian AI Society Conference

June 9, 2022

Director Robert Jenssen gave the keynote "Visual Intelligence advances deep learning research towards innovations" at the 2022 Norwegian AI Society Conference (NAIS) in Oslo.