• Talking robots show Festival visitors what conversational AI can and can’t do

    At the British Science Festival, Tommy Tham and Yaseen Osman used two conversational robots to show visitors what AI can do, and where it still falls short.

  • Robots, rivers and neurons: our AI researchers meet the public at the British Science Festival

    MINDS CDT postgraduate researchers took four hands-on AI demonstrations to the British Science Festival in Southampton and met around 450 visitors in a day.

  • From desktop AI to magnetic surgical robots: MINDS researchers at the 2026 Showcase

    MINDS postgraduate researchers shared their work with industry, policy and academic guests at the 2026 MINDS and SustAI Showcase. Watch the highlight film.

  • MINDS researchers present at NEXT-AI 2026

    Two MINDS doctoral researchers travelled to Loughborough in April 2026 to present their work at NEXT-AI, a national workshop on neuromorphic technologies and hardware-enabled AI. It brought together researchers, industry representatives and exhibitors from across the field. Aiden Graham presented a poster examining how variation in the physical properties of memristor devices affects the classification…

  • MINDS and SustAI researchers gather for third annual symposium

    On 24 January 2025, MINDS CDT researchers gathered at the Leonardo Southampton Hotel for the programme’s third annual symposium. Around 40 people attended. This year’s event had a new dimension. For the first time, the symposium welcomed the first cohort of SustAI, the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in AI for Sustainability, also based at…

  • Could we ever decode an alien language? Olaf Lipinski explores the question in The Conversation

    What would it take to understand a language that no human had ever encountered before? MINDS researcher Olaf Lipinski tackled that question in an article published in The Conversation in November 2024, proposing that advances in AI research may offer some unexpected answers. The Conversation is an independent publication that brings academic expertise to a…

  • MINDS researcher part of winning team at international computational linguistics workshop

    MINDS CDT researcher Rudra Mutalik was part of a team that took first place in the shared task at the 9th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych 2024), held as part of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2024) in Malta in March 2024. The…

  • MINDS researchers launch Edlan, an AI consultancy start-up

    Three MINDS CDT researchers have taken their doctoral training in a new direction, launching Edlan, an AI consultancy start-up based out of the University of Southampton. Alex Wang, Chris Subia-Waud and Caterina Sbandati founded Edlan to help businesses apply AI to practical problems. The company works with organisations to identify where AI and machine learning…

  • MINDS researchers join cross-university enterprise workshop at the Royal Society

    On 10 March 2023, MINDS CDT researchers joined doctoral students from the University of Nottingham, King’s College London and Imperial College London for an Introduction to Enterprise workshop at the Royal Society in London. The event was designed to develop practical skills in networking, pitching research to stakeholders, and thinking about the commercial potential of…

  • MINDS CDT holds first annual symposium

    On 12 January 2023, the MINDS CDT held its first annual symposium in Building 100 on the Highfield Campus at the University of Southampton. Thirty-two students from cohorts 1 to 4 attended. The format was designed to give every cohort a voice. Cohort 1 students, then in the final year of their PhDs, each gave…