GAIL Fellows are researchers and academics from across the University of Edinburgh with a broad range of expertise in the area of Generative AI. Dr Giulia De Togni Usher InstituteAreas of interest: research and innovation for AI and robotics applications in the health and care sectors Prof Kate Wright School of Social and Political ScienceAreas of interest: researching the use of AI by Public Service Media around the world Prof. Desmond J. Higham School of MathematicsAreas of interest: mathematical analysis of AI vulnerabilities and practical implications Dr Yinhuan Dong School of EngineeringAreas of interest: Making personal cognitive health manageable with generative AI Dr Benjamin Peters School of InformaticsAreas of interest: Understanding real-world vision in brains and machines Dr Antonia Mey School of ChemistryAreas of interest: AI for drug discovery; Generative modelling for molecules; property predictions with LLMs Mr Barry Haddow School of InformaticsAreas of interest: Multilingual NLP and generative AI for finance Prof. Michael Rovatsos School of InformaticsAreas of interest: Agentic AI, GenAI Adoption, Neurosymbolic AI, AI Safety, Responsible AI Dr Yunjie Yang School of EngineeringAreas of interest: Robotic perception; Embodied AI; Multi modal sensing Prof Alexandra Birch School of InformaticsAreas of interest: Multilingual and Financial GenerativeAI Dr Amir Vaxman School of InformaticsAreas of interest: Geometry processing, computer graphics, physical simulation, discrete differential geometry. Dr Morgan Currie School of Social and Political ScienceAreas of interest: Political deepfakes in non-election-based contexts Dr Tong Wang Business SchoolAreas of interest: Business Intelligence Automation; Financial GenAI Application; LLM-based Recommendation System Dr Matteo Degiacomi School of BiologyAreas of interest: Generative modelling of biomolecular dynamics, prediction of protein modifications Dr Joshcka Roffe School of InformaticsAreas of interest: Watermarking techniques for safe AI; design automation for quantum computing Dr Caterina Moruzzi Edinburgh College of ArtAreas of interest: responsible integration of AI into creative practices Dr Francesco Tudisco School of MathematicsAreas of interest: AI for Science; Deep Learning Theory; Robustness and trustworthiness in AI; Training and inference efficiency Dr Pinzhen (Patrick) Chen School of InformaticsAreas of interest: Large language models Dr Donald MacIntyre NRS Mental Health NetworkAreas of interest: Implementing text and speech systems in healthcare at scale Prof. Will Lamb School of Languages, Literatures and CulturesAreas of interest: Synthetic data augmentation; low-resource LLM adaptation; minority language community impacts Dr Changjian Li School of InformaticsAreas of interest: 2D and 3D Content Creation (material, shape, motion, etc. Prof. Giovanni Stracquadanio School of BiologyAreas of interest: Generative AI methods for genome, protein and therapeutics engineering; graph neural networks for pathways discovery Prof. Kenneth Baillie Centre for Inflammation ResearchAreas of interest: Causal inference in biological networks Dr Mohsen Khadem School of InformaticsAreas on interest: Application of Gen AI in surgical and interventional robotics and medical image analysis Dr Martin Parker Edinburgh College of ArtAreas of interest: Composer and sound artist exploring sonic identity and AI Dr Oisin Mac Aodha School of InformaticsAreas of interest: Machine learning, computer vision, human-in-the-loop learning, AI for conservation Dr Fengxiang He School of InformaticsAreas of Interest: Deep Learning Theory, Game Theory, LLM Agent (Society), Fairness, Privacy Dr Edoardo Ponti School of Informatics Areas of Interest: Adaptive architectures of foundation models, modularity, multilingual and multimodal NLP Prof. Melissa Terras Edinburgh College of ArtAreas of interest: Advanced Text Recognition, use and reuse of heritage content Dr Long Ye School of InformaticsAreas of interest: Generative AI for materials & manufacturing optimization Dr Andrew Sudmant School of GeosciencesAreas of interest: Using AI to turn Council documents into a real-time source of information Dr Kobi Gal School of InformaticsAreas of interest: Generative AI and Education Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning, Safe and Responsible Generative AI Dr Emma King-Smith School of ChemistryAreas of interest: ML-guided organic chemistry; graph-based modelling; visual-language modelling for chemistry Prof. Mohan Sridharan School of InformaticsAreas of interest: Robotics, Knowledge Representation, Cognitive Systems, Interactive Learning, Multiagent Systems Dr Konrad Rawlik Centre for Inflammation ResearchAreas of interest: Generative AI for genomics, drug target discovery, and bio-medical research Dr Martin Brolly School of MathematicsAreas of interest: generative modelling of dynamical systems, especially the Earth system Dr Pasquale Minervini School of InformaticsAreas of interest: Knowledge-Intensive Natural Language Processing, Relational Learning, Hybrid Neuro-Symbolic Models, Data-Efficient and Robust Deep Learnin Mr Pavel Stepachev School of InformaticsAreas of interest: Multimodal and Multilingual generative modeling Dr Corentin Curchod Business SchoolAreas of interest: How GenAI impacts information gatekeeping work / journalism Dr Rosa Filgueira Chancellor's Fellow (AI & Data Science) at EPCCAreas of interest: Generative AI for software analysis and large-scale text mining. Dr Zhe Liu School of EngineeringAreas of interest: Biomedical Imaging, Robotic Perception, Embodied AI Dr Beverley Hood Edinburgh College of ArtAreas of interest: Critical creative uses of AI in practice-based research Dr Ozan Evkaya School of MathematicsAreas of interest: Dr Leonardo Ranaldi School of InformaticsAreas of interest: Reasoning and Multilingual GenerativeAI Prof. Miguel de Carvalho School of MathematicsAreas of interest: generative AI for extreme events; blending statistical models with large language models Dr Aris Filos-Ratsikas School of InformaticsAreas of interest: Algorithmic Game Theory, Mechanism Design, Multi-agent Systems Dr Mark Chevallier School of EngineeringAreas of interest: neurosymbolic AI, AI safety, formal methods, LLMs for financial applications Dr Andrew Bretherick College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine Areas of interest: Combining Generative AI with genomics, causal inference, and genetic engineering Dr Lucas Seuren Usher InstituteAreas of interest: Ambient AI in healthcare services; AI and critical thinking Prof. Matt Nolan Centre for Brain Discovery SciencesAreas of interest: neural computation, ultra-high speed imaging Prof. Tiejun Ma School of InformaticsAreas of interest: AI and Financial Computing applied in quantitative financial risk modelling, and applying GenAI/LLM in asset risk management Dr Alessandro Suglia School of InformaticsAreas of Interest: Multimodal Generative AI for Robotics and Embodied AI Dr Arno Onken School of Informatics Areas of Interest:Generative modelling of neural data, especially visual cortex Dr Marc Juarez Miro School of Informatics Areas of Interest: Security and privacy of generative AI; applications of generative AI to Cybersecurity Dr Linus Schumacher Centre for Regenerative Medicine Areas of Interest: AI for biomedical discovery science, AI-assisted mathematical modelling Prof. Roberto Rossi Business School Areas of Interest: automated reasoning under uncertainty; generative mathematical programming. Prof Jane Hillston School of InformaticsAreas of Interest: Modelling of resource consumption and efficiency of Generative AI systems Prof. Andrew Curtis School of GeosciencesAreas of interest: research inversion, uncertainty analysis, variational methods, imaging and geosciences Prof. Filippo Menolascina Institute for Bioengineering Areas of interest: AI for Science and Time Series Foundation Models Dr Tuğrulcan Elmas School of InformaticsAreas of interest: Deepfake misinformation detection, GenAI for Computational Social Science Dr Hao Yu School of Engineering Areas of interest: AI for Healthcare and Industrial Process Control & Monitoring Dr Amer Syed School of EngineeringAreas of interest: Gen-AI for mechanical design of materials and manufacture Dr Reza M. Asiyabi School of GeoSciencesAreas of interest: AI for Earth Observation; physics-aware and expert AI Models Dr. Ekaterina Noskova School of Biological Sciences Areas of interest:Application of generative AI in population genomics Dr Matjaz Vidmar School of Engineering Areas of interest: Innovation management and systems engineering, examining and the interaction between algorithms, sensors, environment and people. Dr Viacheslav Borovitskiy School of Informatics Areas of interest: geometric learning and uncertainty quantification Dr Elliot J. Crowley School of Engineering Areas of interest: simple, efficient, and accessible AI Dr Shilong Yao School of Informatics Areas of Interest: Bridging generative AI and physical perception for medical robotics. Dr Alex Sopio School of Physics Areas of interest: Particle physics research at the LHC incorporating state-of-the-art AI/ML methods. Dr Yuze Sha Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society Areas of interest:Trust, legitimacy and public engagement with generative AI in healthcare Dr Emily Allaway School of Informatics Areas of interest: NLP and the challenges that understanding meaning poses for LLMs. Dr Chris Humphries Centre for Cardiovascular Science Areas of interest: Machine learning methods in noisy Unscheduled Care data & clinical trials. Dr Steven McDonagh School of Engineering Areas of interest: Computer Vision and Machine Learning Prof Mirella Lapata School of Informatics Areas of interest: AI systems that not only follow patterns but reason, generalize, and adapt to novel situations Prof Kev Dhaliwal Edinburgh Medical School Areas of interest: discovering new methodologies that will permit the accurate and spatial characterisation of inflammation, infection, cancer and fibrosis in the distal human lung Dr Esmeralda S. Whitammer School of Informatics Areas of interest: understanding of diffusion generative models for various modalities, inference procedures for large language models, and reinforcement learning methods for structured inference Dr Shama Rahman Edinburgh College of Art Areas of interest: adaptive AI/human collaboration and co-creative digital technologies to optimise mental states Dr Tsz Kin Lam School of Informatics Areas of Interest: speech LLM, post-training and human-agent collaboration Dr Mateusz Klimaszewski School of Informatics Areas of interest: building multilingual LLMs Dr Fasih Haider Edinburgh Medical School Areas of interest: Generative models as a tool in AI alongside discriminative learning Ms Philine Bommer Encode: AI for Science Fellow (University of Edinburgh/Pillar VC) Areas of interest: developing and applying new transparent deep neural networks and explainability algorithms in climate science Dr Ben Collier School of Social and Political Sciences (SPS) Areas of interest: the intersection of Criminology and Science and Technology Studies Dr Chen (Susan) Qu Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) Areas of interest: Exploring GeoAI in politics, public health and education; research methods Prof Frank Keller School of Informatics Areas of interest: language and vision tasks, such as image description, visual grounding, video summarization, and visual story telling. Prof Igor Goryanin School of Informatics Areas of Interest: Software and algorithms for modelling and stimulation, visualisation and optimisation of complex systems Dr Alasdair Rooney School of Neuroscience Areas of interest: How AI can be used to extract the treasure trove of patients' entire GP and hospital consultation histories for better care Dr Mustapha Douch Business School Areas of Interest: the structural challenges and opportunities linked to climate change, digital transformation, and global trade Dr Beatrice Alex Heriot-Watt University Areas of interest: AI for text mining and computational text analysis Dr Bonan Zhao School of Informatics Areas of interest: probabilistic generative models to understand the computational principles of human intelligence Dr Zee Talat School of Informatics Areas of interest: machine learning for human data an ethical practice and developing machine learning methodsthat engender fundamental rights such as the right to privacy Dr Ildar Rakhmatulin PiEEG Areas of interest: Simplifying neuroscience research with technology Dr Wei Sun School of Engineering Areas of interest: Energy & AI data centers, large-scale energy system modelling (PyPSA-GB), and IBR smart grids. Dr Ivan Titov School of Informatics Areas of interest: interpretability, trustworthiness and controlability (e.g., editing and unlearning) of deep learning models Dr Mike Davies School of Engineering Areas of interest: mathematical theory and algorithm design for computational imaging, compressed sensing, and machine learning systems Dr Marie Zechner The Roslin Institute Areas of interest: the interface of science and communication design to effectively visualise and convey complex ideas to a range of audiences Dr Malcolm Macleod Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences Areas of interest: optimal use of large language models to the various evidence synthesis tasks Dr Jonathan Millar Baillie-Gifford Pandemic Science Hub Areas of interest: generative AI models of biology from molecular to whole-organism scale across all species Dr Calum Main Design Informatics Areas of interest: the intersection of practice-based animated techniques and technology, particularly regarding how new technology can impact more traditional methods of the artform such as stop-motion This article was published on Wednesday 19 February 2025
