GAIL Fellows

GAIL Fellows are researchers and academics from across the University of Edinburgh with a broad range of expertise in the area of Generative AI.

A photo of Giulia De Togni

Dr Giulia De Togni

Usher Institute

Areas of interest: research and innovation for AI and robotics applications in the health and care sectors

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Dr Kate Wright

School of Social and Political Science

Areas of interest: researching the use of AI by Public Service Media around the world

 

d_higham

Prof. Desmond J. Higham

School of Mathematics

Areas of interest: mathematical analysis of AI vulnerabilities and practical implications

 

y_dong

Dr Yinhuan Dong

School of Engineering

Areas of interest: Making personal cognitive health manageable with generative AI

 

b_peters

Dr Benjamin Peters

School of Informatics

Areas of interest: Understanding real-world vision in brains and machines

 

a_mey

Dr Antonia Mey

School of Chemistry

Areas of interest: AI for drug discovery; Generative modelling for molecules; property predictions with LLMs

 

b_haddow

Mr Barry Haddow

School of Informatics

Areas of interest: Multilingual NLP and generative AI for finance

m_rovatsos

Prof. Michael Rovatsos

School of Informatics

Areas of interest: Agentic AI, GenAI Adoption, Neurosymbolic AI, AI Safety, Responsible AI

y_yang

Dr Yunjie Yang

School of Engineering

Areas of interest: Robotic perception; Embodied AI; Multi modal sensing

a_birch

Dr Alexandra Birch

School of Informatics

Areas of interest: Multilingual and Financial GenerativeAI

a_vaxman

Dr Amir Vaxman

School of Informatics

Areas of interest: Geometry processing, computer graphics, physical simulation, discrete differential geometry.

m_currie

Dr Morgan Currie

School of Social and Political Science

Areas of interest: Political deepfakes in non-election-based contexts

 

t_wang

Dr Tong Wang

Business School

Areas of interest: Business Intelligence Automation; Financial GenAI Application; LLM-based Recommendation System

 

m_degiacomi

Dr Matteo Degiacomi

School of Biology

Areas of interest: Generative modelling of biomolecular dynamics, prediction of protein modifications

j_roffe

Dr Joshcka Roffe

School of Informatics

Areas of interest: Watermarking techniques for safe AI; design automation for quantum computing

 

c_moruzzi

Dr Caterina Moruzzi

Edinburgh College of Art

Areas of interest: responsible integration of AI into creative practices

 

 

f_tudisco

Dr Francesco Tudisco

School of Mathematics

Areas of interest: AI for Science; Deep Learning Theory; Robustness and trustworthiness in AI; Training and inference efficiency

 

p_chen

Dr Pinzhen (Patrick) Chen

School of Informatics

Areas of interest: Large language models

 

 

d_macintryre

Dr Donald MacIntyre

NRS Mental Health Network

Areas of interest: Implementing text and speech systems in healthcare at scale

 

w_lamb

Prof. Will Lamb

School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Areas of interest: Synthetic data augmentation; low-resource LLM adaptation; minority language community impacts

c_li

Dr Changjian Li

School of Informatics

Areas of interest: 2D and 3D Content Creation (material, shape, motion, etc.

 

g_stracquadanio

Prof. Giovanni Stracquadanio

School of Biology

Areas of interest: Generative AI methods for genome, protein and therapeutics engineering; graph neural networks for pathways discovery

 

k_baillie

Prof. Kenneth Baillie

Centre for Inflammation Research

Areas of interest: Causal inference in biological networks

 

m-khadem

Dr Mohsen Khadem

School of Informatics

Areas on interest: Application of Gen AI in surgical and interventional robotics and medical image analysis

 

m_parker

Dr Martin Parker

Edinburgh College of Art

Areas of interest: Composer and sound artist exploring sonic identity and AI

 

o_macaodha

Dr Oisin Mac Aodha

School of Informatics

Areas of interest: Machine learning, computer vision, human-in-the-loop learning, AI for conservation

f_he

Dr Fengxiang He

School of Informatics

Areas of Interest: Deep Learning Theory, Game Theory, LLM Agent (Society), Fairness, Privacy

 

m_klimaszewski

Mr Mateusz Klimaszewski

School of Informatics

Areas of interest: multilingual LLMs, LLMs evaluation, Modular Deep Learning

m_terras

Prof. Melissa Terras

Edinburgh College of Art

Areas of interest: Advanced Text Recognition, use and reuse of heritage content 

 

l_ye

Dr Long Ye

School of Informatics

Areas of interest: Generative AI for materials & manufacturing optimization

a_sudmant

Dr Andrew Sudmant

School of Geosciences

Areas of interest: Using AI to turn Council documents into a real-time source of information

 

k_gal

Dr Kobi Gal

School of Informatics

Areas of interest: Generative AI and Education Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning, Safe and Responsible Generative AI

 

e_king-smith

Dr Emma King-Smith

School of Chemistry

Areas of interest: ML-guided organic chemistry; graph-based modelling; visual-language modelling for chemistry

 

m_sridharan

Prof. Mohan Sridharan

School of Informatics

Areas of interest: Robotics, Knowledge Representation, Cognitive Systems, Interactive Learning, Multiagent Systems

 

k_rawlik

Dr Konrad Rawlik

Centre for Inflammation Research

Areas of interest: Generative AI for genomics, drug target discovery, and bio-medical research

 

mbrolly

Dr Martin Brolly

School of Mathematics

Areas of interest: generative modelling of dynamical systems, especially the Earth system

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Dr Pasquale Minervini

School of Informatics

Areas of interest: Knowledge-Intensive Natural Language Processing, Relational Learning, Hybrid Neuro-Symbolic Models, Data-Efficient and Robust Deep Learnin

p_step

Mr Pavel Stepachev

School of Informatics

Areas of interest: Multimodal and Multilingual generative modeling

 

 

corentin_curchod

Dr Corentin Curchod

Business School

Areas of interest: How GenAI impacts information gatekeeping work / journalism

 

rosa_filgueira

Dr Rosa Filgueira

Chancellor's Fellow (AI & Data Science) at EPCC

Areas of interest: Generative AI for software analysis and large-scale text mining.

 

zhe_liu

Dr Zhe Liu

School of Engineering

Areas of interest: Biomedical Imaging, Robotic Perception, Embodied AI

 

bev_hood

Dr Beverley Hood

Edinburgh College of Art

Areas of interest: Critical creative uses of AI in practice-based research

 

o-evkaya

Dr Ozan Evkaya

School of Mathematics

Areas of interest: