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AI could accelerate protein engineering – key for developing new medicines

An AI approach developed by the CMI's Professor Haiping Lu and fellow researchers from the 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Sheffield, in collaboration with AstraZeneca, could make it easier to design proteins needed for new treatments.
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Bright Minds Live Highlights CMI Expertise on AI Ethics and Society

The Bright Minds Live event featured the CMI's Fellow in AI and In/equality, Dr. Sarah Moth-Lund Christensen, discussing the ethical and societal aspects of AI.
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Dr Susan Oman appointed as a member of the DCMS College of Experts

The CMI's Dr Susan Oman and Dr Irini Katsirea have been appointed members of the UK Government’s Department of Culture Media & Sport (DCMS) College of Experts to apply innovative scientific methods to support government policy.
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Dr Susan Oman discusses AI, art and public engagement on BBC Radio Wales

Dr Susan Oman speaks to BBC Radio Wales about how the arts, public engagement, and interdisciplinary research are shaping more responsible approaches to AI.
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Second year engineering students pitched ideas at 2025 Engineers in Business final

Six top teams competed, showcasing AI-integrated solutions alongside other cutting-edge innovations.
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Sheffield awarded prestigious government AI Futures grant

9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ has been awarded a prestigious government AI Futures grant of £70,000, following a successful application led by the newly established Centre for Machine Intelligence.

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Professor Nikos Aletras

New Research Project to Address Challenges of AI in Law and Healthcare

Academics from Computer Science and the School of Law are part of a research team that has been awarded a £4.38 million grant to tackle the sociotechnical challenges around using AI-powered Large Language Models (LLMs) for legal & healthcare purposes
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‘Digital twin’ heart modelling project will monitor patients virtually

Sheffield academics from the Faculties of Engineering and Health are part of a team of interdisciplinary researchers who will create and test the first ‘digital twin’ heart models for a group of chronically ill NHS patients
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9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Sheffield AI Research recognised in Nature Machine Intelligence reusability report

The team have had their recent work on the bilinear attention model for predicting drug-target interactions recognised in a reusability report published by Nature Machine Intelligence.
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World leading expert on bio-inspired AI to direct 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Sheffield’s Centre for Machine Intelligence

One of the world’s leading innovators in bio-inspired AI has joined the 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Sheffield, as part of a new multi-million pound centre that is set to transform the institution’s research, innovation and teaching around artificial intelligence.