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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. The event brought together more than 120 participants, 40 speakers and 10 exhibitors from across the research and industry community working in this space. Aiden Graham presented a poster examining…

On 24 January 2025, MINDS CDT researchers gathered at the Leonardo Southampton Hotel for the programme’s third annual symposium. Around 40 people attended, making it the largest symposium the CDT has held. This year’s event had a new dimension. For the first time, the symposium welcomed the first cohort of SustAI, the UKRI Centre for…

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 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…

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…

On 10 March 2023, MINDS CDT researchers joined doctoral students from the Universities of Nottingham and Surrey, 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…

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, making it one of the largest gatherings of MINDS researchers to date. The format was designed to give every cohort a voice. Cohort…

When engineers working with embedded systems need guidance on applying AI and machine learning, they often find the field is complex, fast-moving and lacking in clear, accessible resources. MINDS CDT researchers are helping to change that. In March 2022, MINDS students Alex Wang and Epifanios Baikas, alongside Deputy Impact Champion Dr Dimitra Georgiadou, attended the…