ILI TRUSTLii Personal Data Security Oct 6, 2014 - Jan 5, 2015
This project aims to enhance ILI's existing TRUSTLii system by using novel and unique methods to extract useful insights from personal data, as well as improving the security of personal data stores to endow the customers with the maximum protection... Read More about ILI TRUSTLii Personal Data Security.

Context-Active Resilience in Cyber Physical systems (CAR) Dec 21, 2016 - Dec 20, 2018
This European Fellowship project will benefit the researcher by giving and enhancing the knowledge and skills for a future generation of CPSs which enjoy the unique feature of context-active resilience. With such new capability and training, the rese... Read More about Context-Active Resilience in Cyber Physical systems (CAR).

The Extractive Components of UK Hardwood Apr 1, 2016 - Mar 31, 2017
Use the ITED system to search literature based observations about the chemical extractive components of both broadleaf and conifer tree species commonly grown in the UK.

Chemically, wood structure mainly comprises of cellulose, hemicelluloses and... Read More about The Extractive Components of UK Hardwood.

KTP Standard Life Jan 1, 2017 - Dec 31, 2018
The development of enhanced data analytics capabilities to enable the modelling, analysis and presentation of complex data to improve Group Internal Audit’s assessment and insight into business risks and performance

Research visit @ University of Bielefeld Jun 1, 2017 - Dec 31, 2017
Research exchange with the Bielefeld Dialogue Systems group

Bendifa Innovation Voucher May 1, 2017 - Jul 31, 2017
An SFC Innovation Voucher being used to fund a feasibility study examining the use of heuristics to optimize food collection and delivery.

Managing Archaeological Projects - Innovation Voucher Sep 1, 2017 - Nov 30, 2017
Develop a prototype for an interactive data-driven website to address the unique challenges of managing numerous archaeological services projects across diverse sites in Scotland.

CiViL: Common-sense- and Visual-enhanced natural Language generation Sep 28, 2020 - Sep 27, 2023
One of the most compelling problems in Artificial Intelligence is to create computational agents capable of interacting in
real-world environments using natural language. Computational agents such as robots can offer multiple benefits to
society, f... Read More about CiViL: Common-sense- and Visual-enhanced natural Language generation.

Autonomous Robot Evolution: Cradle to Grave Aug 1, 2018 - Dec 31, 2022
Robotics is changing the landscape of innovation. But traditional design approaches are not suited to novel or unknown habitats and contexts, for instance: robot colonies for ore mining, exploring or developing other planets or asteroids, or robot sw... Read More about Autonomous Robot Evolution: Cradle to Grave.

Security Visualisation Aug 1, 2018 - Jan 8, 2022
To optimise the ZoneFox product through the development and incorporation of effective information visualisation tools for
generating insight through visual exploration and discovery of relationships in customers’ business data.

Netmedia: Innovation Voucher for Artificial Intelligence/Optimisation Mar 1, 2018 - Aug 31, 2018
The project will examine the manner in which a scheduling/timetabling system can be enhanced by having classifying users into types and then using problem templates matched to type to guide the user.

Solicitor Data Management for TC Young Jun 11, 2018 - Oct 10, 2018
Develop a bespoke system for managing defined client data including charitable clients in Scotland for TC Young.

KTP: Intelligent Agents Jun 1, 2019 - May 31, 2022
Improving customer experience through intelligent workflow

Multi-task, Multilingual, Multi-modal Language Generation Sep 9, 2019 - Sep 8, 2023
Language generation (LG) is a crucial technology if machines are to communicate with humans seamlessly using human natural language. A great number of different tasks within Natural Language Processing (NLP) are language generation tasks, and being a... Read More about Multi-task, Multilingual, Multi-modal Language Generation.

Context-driven proactively Auto-recognising and Learning Met-bot for Meteorological Disaster Surveillance and Precautious Warning Apr 1, 2019 - Feb 28, 2022
The project aims to advance the autonomy of field robots with a novel approach to developing a new generation of Meteorological Drone Robots (Met-Bot) which will be context-driven, proactively auto-recognising and proactively learning in coping with... Read More about Context-driven proactively Auto-recognising and Learning Met-bot for Meteorological Disaster Surveillance and Precautious Warning.

Optimisation of AirNode mesh nets Sep 1, 2019 - Sep 30, 2020
Urban air quality affects the lives of millions, according to WHO statistics air quality contributes to 6.7% of all deaths worldwide. Managing air quality in urban areas is now a priority for governments. In order to manage air quality and to predic... Read More about Optimisation of AirNode mesh nets.

Keep Learning Jul 1, 2021 - May 31, 2025

The project proposes a novel architecture for designing optimisation systems that “keeps learning” when exposed to a continual stream of instances: these systems will autonomously adapt their components over time to respond to gradual drift in the... Read More about Keep Learning.

Cloud platform containerised services design Jun 1, 2019 - Sep 30, 2019
This project will focus on the design and development of a distributed software architecture for the platform with innovative technology approaches. This includes microservices with containerisation, a focus on multi-tenancy, and the use of NoSQL to... Read More about Cloud platform containerised services design.

Bus Passenger Analytics Jan 1, 2020 - Apr 30, 2020
Passengers using the Lothian Buses network may use a smart card (Ridacard) to pay for their journey, swiping the card on boarding a vehicle. Smart card journeys account for about 1/3rd of journeys made. This generates data recording when an individu... Read More about Bus Passenger Analytics.

Extending a microservices architecture to support user functions and provide cloud APIs Oct 1, 2019 - Jan 31, 2020
Extending a containerised microservices architecture developed in the initial project to support a set of user functions required for the platform's MVP. Additionally, the project will deliver cloud APIs for later use with the company's consumer app... Read More about Extending a microservices architecture to support user functions and provide cloud APIs.