The AI & Art competition we ran as part of the CDT Showcase event brought together a fantastic array of talent and creativity, with participants impressing us with their outstanding submissions. We were thrilled to see some innovative approaches and unique perspectives reflected in each entry and are excited to highlight the winning entries that stood out among the rest.
As I return to my PhD studies at UCL after a transformative six-month internship at Amazon Robotics in Berlin, I find myself reflecting on the invaluable experiences and lessons gained during this period. I am eager to share insights from my journey and how they have shaped my thinking.
It is hard to believe that we are already reaching the end of another term at UCL. Since October we have welcomed 13 new students had PhD submissions, congratulated new Drs and seen a significant number of students have their work accepted for some of the most prestigious conferences in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning!
On Wednesday 29th November, UCL Events hosted Demis Hassabis to give the UCL Prize Lecture 2023 on his work at Google DeepMind, a company that he founded after completing his PhD at UCL.
On Wednesday 15th November, members of all cohorts within the FAICDT visited our Robotics labs at the newly opened UCL East Campus. Prof Dimitrios Kanoulas very kindly offered up his time and expertise in showing our students around both the Marshgate and Pool Street Labs.
For the second year running, the UKRI CDT in Foundational AI, collaborated with the University of Bath and the University of Bristol to organise an inter CDT conference at the Bristol Hotel.
In July of 2023, our Cohort 2 student Alex Hawkins-Hooker presented his work at the Machine Learning in Computational and Systems Biology Track at ISMB, which is one of the leading computational biology conferences.