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The Royal Statistical Society Annual Conference 2024
The Royal Statistical Society meets annually for their internationally attended conference. It serves as the UK’s annual showcase for statistics and data science. This year they met in Brighton for a conference attended by over 600 attendees from around the world, including JGI Data Scientist Dr Huw Day. The conference had over 250 presentations, including contributed talks,…
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Using Machine Learning to Correct Probe Skew in High-frequency Electrical Loss Measurements
JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2023/24: Jun Wang & Song Liu Introduction This project develops a machine learning approach to address the probe skew problem in high-frequency electrical loss measurements. What were the aims of the seed corn project? To tackle the net-zero challenge through electrification, power electronic converters play an important role in…
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Understanding the growth of human brains
JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2023/24: James Armstrong The human brain is a highly complex structure and an inaccessible organ to study, which has hampered our understanding of how the brain grows, becomes diseased, and responds to drugs. In the last ten years, a new method has been developed that uses stem cells to…
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Chakaya Nyamvula’s JGI Placement
Hi, I’m Chakaya. I am currently pursuing my MSc in AI and Data Science at Keele University and working as a Business Intelligence Analyst at iLabAfrica at Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya. This summer, thanks to the partnership between iLabAfrica and JGI, I had an amazing opportunity to work with JGI for my Master’s placement.…
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Working towards more universal skin cancer identification with AI
JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2023/24: James Pope Introduction Open-source skin cancer datasets contain predominantly lighter skin tones potentially leading to biased artificial intelligence (AI) models. This study aimed to analyse these datasets for skin tone bias. What were the aims of the seed corn project? The project’s aims were to perform an exploratory…
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First Steps Towards a Crowd-Sourced Ancient Greek Encyclopaedia
JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2023/24: Naomi Scott In the second century A.D., Julius Pollux, Professor of Rhetoric at the Academy in Athens, wrote the Onomasticon (‘Book of Words’), and dedicated it to the Emperor Commodus. The work sits somewhere between an encyclopaedia and a lexicon. Chapters are organised by topic, and Pollux lists…
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New Turing Liaison Officers join the JGI team
As an active member of the Turing University Network, we have appointed a Turing Liaison Manager and two Turing Liaison Academics to support and enhance the partnership between Alan Turing Institute and the University of Bristol. These roles will be focusing on increasing engagement from Turing, developing external and internal networks around data science and…
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How Smartwatches Could Help People with Type 1 Diabetes
JGI Seed Corn Funding Project Blog 2023/24: Miranda Armstrong Introduction Type 1 diabetes (T1D) requires consistent self-management, which places a large burden on those who live with it. We explored the role smartwatches could play in reducing that burden. Aims The project aimed to collect and build a dataset that would allow for exploration into the…
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Ask JGI Student Experience Profiles: Rachael Laidlaw
Rachael Laidlaw (Ask-JGI Data Science Support 2023-24) I first came into contact with the Jean Golding Institute last year at The Alan Turing Institute’s annual AI UK conference in London, and then again in the early stages of the DataFace project in collaboration with Cheltenham Science Festival. This meant that before I officially joined the…
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