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  • MagMap – Accurate Magnetic Characteristic Mapping Using Machine Learning

    MagMap – Accurate Magnetic Characteristic Mapping Using Machine Learning

    PGR JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2023/24: Binyu Cui Introduction: Magnetic components, such as inductors, play a crucial role in nearly all power electronics applications and are typically known to be the least efficient components, significantly affecting overall system performance and efficiency. Despite extensive research and analysis on the characteristics of magnetic components, a…

  • Unveiling Hidden Musical Semantics: Compositionality in Music Ngram Embeddings 

    Unveiling Hidden Musical Semantics: Compositionality in Music Ngram Embeddings 

    PGR JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2023/24: Zhijin Guo  Introduction The overall aim of this project is to analyse music scores by machine learning.  These of course are different from sound recordings of music, since they are symbolic representations of what musicians play.  But with encoded versions of these scores (in which the graphical…

  • AskJGI Example Queries from Faculty of Science and Engineering

    AskJGI Example Queries from Faculty of Science and Engineering

    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…

  • Ask-JGI is recruiting PhD students! 

    Ask-JGI is recruiting PhD students! 

    We are recruiting a new team of PhD students for the Ask-JGI helpdesk to work from October 2025 until September 2026!  The Jean Golding Institute (JGI) for data science and AI offers a consultancy service to researchers via its Ask-JGI helpdesk. We offer one day of free support to all staff and doctoral students at…

  • Tracing Voices: A Visual Journey through Latin American Debates about Race  

    Tracing Voices: A Visual Journey through Latin American Debates about Race  

    JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2023/24: Jo Crow I’m a historian who is keen to learn how digital tools can strengthen our analysis of the material we find in the archives. I research histories of race, racism and anti-racism in Latin America. I’m particularly interested in how ideas about race travelled across borders in the…

  • Using ‘The Cloud’ to enhance UoB laboratory data security, storage, sharing, and management

    Using ‘The Cloud’ to enhance UoB laboratory data security, storage, sharing, and management

    JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2023/24: Peter Martin, Chris Jones & Duncan Baldwin Introduction As a world-leading research-intensive institution, the University of Bristol houses a multi-million-pound array of cutting-edge analytical equipment of all types, ages, function, and sensitivity – distributed across its Schools, Faculties, Research Centres and Groups, as well as in dozens of…

  • Ask-JGI Example Queries from Faculty of Health and Life Sciences 

    Ask-JGI Example Queries from Faculty of Health and Life Sciences 

    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…

  • The Turing Seminars 2024-2025

    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…

  • Dr Leon Danon appointed as Director of the Jean Golding Institute

    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.…