Our inaugural & research seminar series continues on Wednesday February 21st at 1230 in LT1.3 where Emily Collins will be presenting "Building Trustworthy Robotics for Better, Safer Industry". Then, on Wednesday February 28th at 1400 in LT1.3, Bijan Parsia will be presenting his inaugural Professorial seminar on "Prosthetic Autonomy". As per usual, these talks will be followed by tea and cake etc. in the common room. Department Seminar Series (sharepoint.com)
Goodbye to Rigina, Nhung, and Ahmed - but hello to Philip and David
Thank you to everyone who contributed to the leaving cards and collections for Rigina, Nhung, and Ahmed. We’re sad to see them go but wish them all the best for the next stages of their careers. Joining us over the next few weeks are Guodong (Philip) Zhao as Senior Lecturer in the Machine Learning and Robotics group, and David Petrescu as T&S Lecturer. Philip is going to start off in Kilburn 2.74, while David will be in Kilburn 2.80.
APT Grant Awards
Many congratulations to several members of the APT group on three recent grant successes. The projects all fall under the Twinning programme, which is funded by the European Union to enhance networking activities between research institutions of the widening countries and top-class leading counterparts, encompassing joint research, knowledge transfer and exchange of best practices. The TAICHIP project (Davide, Jim) aims at a breakthrough R&D framework for reliable and resource-efficient custom intelligence (AI) chips based on open hardware architectures, open EDA tools, methodologies and implementation technologies satisfying the requirements of modern AI applications. The TWIN-RELECT project (Davide, Mikel) aims at boosting the European scientific and innovation capacity in the design of reliable electronic systems through an end-to-end design-for-reliability framework spanning from devices to systems through circuits and architectures. The AIDA4Edge project (Davide, Oliver) aims at endowing resource-constrained edge computing devices with intelligence by combining the best of both artificial and spiking neural networks toward an adaptive acquisition and processing pipeline for decentralized near-sensor data processing. Congratulations to Davide, Jim, Mikel, and Oliver.
Happy Lunar New Year
Finally, for those of you who have been celebrating Spring Festival - Gong hei fat choy / gong xi fa cai!
Andrew