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November 21, 2024

IMI MIRA Wins Award

IMI MIRA, Dr Ben Ashby, has been awarded £10,000 following his application to the University's Policy Support Fund.  Congratulations to Ben! The money will fund a MIRI (Mathematical Innovation Research…
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November 18, 2024

Lisa Kreusser’s translation to Reader

We are delighted to announce the translation of Dr Lisa Kreusser, one of IMI's Environmental Extremes Theme Leads, to Reader.  Huge congratulations to her! Lisa joined the University of Bath…
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November 12, 2024

IMI attend the UK Maths Week Parliamentary Expo

On Wednesday 13 November 2024, a team from the Institute for Mathematical Innovation (IMI) and staff from Maths4DL, will attend the UK Maths Week Parliamentary Expo taking place at the…
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October 14, 2024

AI-trained CCTV in rivers can spot blockages and reduce floods

Machine learning-equipped camera systems can be an effective and low-cost flood defence tool, researchers show. Working with Dr Andrew Barnes, from the Department of Computer Science and a member of the Centre…
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September 20, 2024

Haiyan Zheng’s translation to Reader

We are delighted to announce the translation of Dr Haiyan Zheng, IMI Clinical Trials Theme Lead, to Reader.  Huge congratulations to her! Haiyan joined the University of Bath in September…
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August 20, 2024

Haiyan Zheng awarded Cancer Research UK Fellowship

IMI is pleased to announce that Dr Haiyan Zheng has been awarded a 6-year Cancer Research UK Career Development Fellowship, with a funding value of £1,320,866, to establish a dedicated…
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June 14, 2024

IMI sponsors student in triathlon

On 2 June 2024, Mathematical Sciences student and IMI Research Assistant, Noel Howley, is being sponsored by IMI to take part in the Cotswold 133 Middle Distance Triathlon at Ashton Keynes Water Park. …
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June 13, 2024

IMI welcomes new team members

The Institute for Mathematical Innovation (IMI) is delighted to announce 3 new Deputy Directors and 5 new Theme Leads to the IMI team. Deputy Directors The Deputy Directors will be working alongside the Director of IMI,…
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June 12, 2024

IMI involved with £80M national AI initiative

The AI for Collective Intelligence hub (AI4CI) is a £12M, five-year collaboration between the University of Bath and six other institutions. Published on Tuesday 6 February 2024 Developing next-generation artificial…
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June 11, 2024

Development of a landslide early warning system

Methodology devised by the Institute for Mathematical Innovation has aided the development of an early warning system for detecting landslides by forecasting the soil moisture content following rainfall.  The work has…
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June 10, 2024

IMI MIRF Beate Ehrhardt explains: What is the IMI?

Motivated by the collaboration with the Centre for People-Led Digitalisation, IMI MIRF Beate Ehrhardt explains how the IMI works and how academia and industry can collaborate with the IMI.
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June 9, 2024

IMI MIRA directs 5 part mini docu-series on Data Science in Mongolia

A five part mini docu-series, released on YouTube on 13 June 2022, showcases how data science can interface with policy to help manage air pollution and COVID spread in Mongolia.…
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June 8, 2024

Bath leads programme grant funding mathematical research in radiation transport modelling: MaThRad

IMI Director, Andreas Kyprianou, leads a successful bid for a £7.3 million programme grant from the EPSRC Mathematical Sciences portfolio together with numerous academics and clinicians from the University of…
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June 7, 2024

Fairness in machine learning: It all depends on the features (you pick)

Usually, in order to assess bias in machine learning, one feature is selected, such as gender or race, as the focus of the study. Then, well-known fairness metrics are applied…
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June 6, 2024

Studying publicly available pre-trained language models for gender bias issues

Word embedding is a well-known technique for text analysis in Natural Language Processing (NLP). This involves mapping words to a vector representation, corresponding to a point in a multi-dimensional space.…
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June 5, 2024

Machine learning outperforms clinical experts in classifying hip fractures

IMI Fellow Prof Richie Gill leads a research team who have developed a machine learning tool to help clinicians identify and classify hip fractures more efficiently. Hip fractures are a major cause…
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June 4, 2024

IMI research reveals top ten most improbable FA Cup third round results

The Football Association has today (7 Jan 2022) released research conducted by the Institute for Mathematical Innovation that verifies a list of the least likely scorelines of the last 50…
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June 3, 2024

Dr Adwaye Rambojun awarded Postdoctoral Impact Acceleration Award

Dr Adwaye Rambojun, IMI Mathematical Innovation Research Associate, received Postdoctoral Impact Acceleration Award in the latest round of the Impact Acceleration Account call. The aim of such awards is to…
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June 1, 2024

Knowledge graphs enable for the first time automated test generation for an entire mechatronic system

MIRF Beate Ehrhardt and Marco Franke (lead author) from the Bremen Institute for Production and Logistic publish a paper together on “The Faceted and Exploratory Search for Test Knowledge”. Heterogeneous test…
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June 1, 2024

Promotion of Beate Ehrhardt to Mathematical Innovation Research Fellow

We are proud to announce the promotion of Beate Ehrhardt to Mathematical Innovation Research Fellow (previously Research Associate). Beate’s research expertise lies in applied statistics and machine learning, with a…
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May 30, 2024

Prof Chris Budd leads EPSRC Programme grant

Chris Budd, Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences and IMI Director of Knowledge Exchange, will lead a team from the University of Bath, University of Cambridge and University College…
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May 29, 2024

New Mathematical Sciences IMI Grant Drive

The IMI is working closely with the University of Bath’s Mathematical Sciences Department to support, develop and drive submissions to the EPSRC Additional Funding Programme for the Mathematical Sciences. The Grant…
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May 28, 2024

Having your Christmas cake and eating it (fairly)

The University of Bath brings good tidings on this front. Professor Chris Budd, Professor of Mathematics and Director of Knowledge Exchange for IMI, is keen to spread the word that…
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May 27, 2024

Bath Mathematicians work with the Met Office

In August 2020, Bath Mathematicians assisted with developing multigrid solver for the Met Office, which makes global forecasts faster.  Read the full story here.
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May 26, 2024

How number crunching can optimise crisp frying

Optimising the frying time of crisps may not be an obvious application of mathematics, but this is one of the problems delegates to the 138th European Study Group with Industry (ESGI)…
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May 25, 2024

IMI develops AI to map marine environments

Working with SEA Ltd., the Institute for Mathematical Innovation have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithm which could improve how we monitor our marine territories.  Read the full story here.
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May 24, 2024

IMI MIRA showcased in RIS campaign

We are proud to announce that IMI MIRA Dr Beate Ehrhardt featured on the Research Innovation Services (RIS) campaign titled “Jobs that make a difference”. The campaign has the aim…
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May 23, 2024

A Practical Guide to Causal Dataset Repairs in Machine Learning

Causality studies the relationships between certain events or processes in terms of cause and effect. More recently, this area has been used in machine learning to identify the causal relationships…
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May 21, 2024

Prof Chris Budd leads team who develop at home climate change predictor

IMI Director of Knowledge Exchange, Prof Chris Budd, leads a team of Bath Mathematician who develop a computer program that can predict rising temperatures and changes in the climate providing…
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May 21, 2024

Career length of members of parliament is significantly influenced by career type

Mixed-member proportional electoral systems are characterised by having two types of members of parliament (MPs): district MPs elected directly in a district and list MPs elected via a party list.…
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May 20, 2024

Mathematics supports Covid-19 safety for large events

IMI Director of Knowledge Exchange, Prof Chris Budd, working closely with the ICMS, delivered a three-day national intensive study group focusing on how maths can minimise the risk and impact…
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May 7, 2020

IMI plays leading role in new UK virtual forum for government and industry collaborations

Close collaboration between universities, government and businesses is more important now than ever, as we seek to find rapid solutions to challenges posed by the COVID-19 crisis.  Read the full…