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The Turing Seminars 2024-2025
From November 2024 – April 2025, we (the Turing Liaison Team at Bristol) ran a fruitful Turing Seminar Series. This series boasted academics connected to the Turing Institute, speaking about their cutting-edge research in data science and AI. From Machine Learning, Large Language Models and Digital Twins, to early prediction of dementia, disambiguation in historical…
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Dr Leon Danon appointed as Director of the Jean Golding Institute
Dr Leon Danon has been appointed as the new Director of the Jean Golding Institute. Leon is an Associate Professor in Infectious Disease Modelling and Data Analytics in the School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology. He has a PhD in Statistical Physics of Complex Networks but has been working on epidemiology of infectious diseases since 2004.…
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JGI reflects on AI UK 2025
The JGI team had a great time at the AI UK national showcase of data science and AI hosted by The Alan Turing Institute. The team got to experience community talking points on stage, exhibitions that demonstrate innovation from UK academic and commercial organisations, and a range of workshops. You can read our previous blog…
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University of Bristol demonstrations at AI UK
The JGI team had a great time at the AI UK conference a few weeks ago. There were some fantastic University of Bristol demonstration stands at the conference that our Turing Liaison team coordinated. Read more about the demonstrations below and their experience of AI UK below. AI for Collective Intelligence Hub, Informed AI Hub…
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Ask-JGI Example Queries from the Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences and Law
All University of Bristol researchers (from PhD student and up) are entitled to a day of free data science support from the Ask-JGI helpdesk. Just email ask-jgi@bristol.ac.uk with your query and one of our team will get back to you to see how we can support you. You can see more about how the JGI can support…
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Book Launch – AI and Literature Routledge Handbook
In January 2025, the Turing Liaison team, based in the Jean Golding Institute for interdisciplinary data science, organised a book launch for the new AI and Literature Routledge Handbook. The Handbook was co-edited by Genevieve Liveley, a Professor of Classics at the University of Bristol, and a Turing Fellow. “It brings together 30 new and…
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Meet the Ask-JGI team – Adrianna, Fahd, Yujie & Huw
The new Ask-JGI helpdesk cohort started in September 2024 and have been busy answering queries from researchers across the university! We introduced half of the team in our January blog. Meet the other half of the team below: Adrianna Jezierska (she/her) – Ask-JGI PhD Student I’m a PhD student at the University of Bristol Business…
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Meet the Research Data Advocate team
We are delighted to announce a new pilot training scheme led by our newly-appointed JGI Research Data Science Advocates. This is a new way to take part in training in a low-stress, collaborative and supportive environment, and at the same time form a community of data scientists in your area. The pilot will run JGI…
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Meet the Ask-JGI team – Mirah, Tao, Yueying & Dan
All University of Bristol researchers (from PhD student and up) are entitled to a day of free data science support from the Ask-JGI helpdesk. Just email ask-jgi@bristol.ac.uk with your query and one of our team will get back to you to see how we can support you. You can see more about how the JGI…
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