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Human-like Inclinations: Composing a multimedia live installation with AI

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Image-based Conversational Search for Users with Intellectual Disability

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Haiming Liu PhD, PgCAP, SFHEA

Associate Professor
Research interests
  • User-centred interactive information access
  • User preference and behaviour modelling
  • Multimedia information retrieval
Connect with Haiming

Email: H.Liu@soton.ac.uk

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LOVE LETTERS [WITH AI]

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Benjamin Oliver

Professor of Composition
Research interests
  • Composition (Instrumental and Electronic)
  • Conducting Research
  • Sonification
Connect with Benjamin

Email: B.Oliver@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Dr Shoaib Jameel

Associate Professor
Connect with Shoaib

Email: M.S.Jameel@southampton.ac.uk

Professor Will May

Professor of Modern & Contemporary Literature
Research interests
  • modern and contemporary literature
  • mentoring and creative practice 
  • literary communities in modern culture 
Connect with Will

Email: W.May@soton.ac.uk

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Machine Learning-Driven Gestural Control for Expressive Sound Synthesis: Bridging Movement, Music, And Musculoskeletal Health Through Analogue Synthesisers

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Pablo Galaz

Lecturer in Composition & Analysis
Connect with Pablo

Email: P.Galaz@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Dr Martin Warner PhD

Associate Professor
Research interests
  • My research is focsued on enabling lifelong active living and healthy ageing through optimisi…
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  • I have a particular interest and expertise in biomechanics of the shoulder and upper limb whe…
Connect with Martin

Email: M.Warner@soton.ac.uk

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Multimodal audio-textual argumentation mining of political debates

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Rafael Mestre PhD, MSc, BSc

Lecturer
Research interests
  • Emergent technologies
  • Applied and responsible AI
  • Health
Connect with Rafael

Email: R.Mestre@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Stuart Middleton

Professor of Natural Language Processing
Research interests
  • Natural Language Processing: Large Language Models
  • Human-in-the-loop LLMs: Rationale-based learning, Active learning, Adversarial defence, Adver…
  • Information Extraction: Text/Behaviour classification, Few/Zero shot learning, Location extra…
Connect with Stuart

Email: sem03@soton.ac.uk

Professor Matt Ryan

Professor
Research interests
  • Democracy
  • Social Research Methods
  • Web Science
Connect with Matt

Email: M.G.Ryan@soton.ac.uk

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Multimodal information extraction of embedded text in online images

Staff

Other researchers

Professor Stuart Middleton

Professor of Natural Language Processing
Research interests
  • Natural Language Processing: Large Language Models
  • Human-in-the-loop LLMs: Rationale-based learning, Active learning, Adversarial defence, Adver…
  • Information Extraction: Text/Behaviour classification, Few/Zero shot learning, Location extra…
Connect with Stuart

Email: sem03@soton.ac.uk

Professor Matt Ryan

Professor
Research interests
  • Democracy
  • Social Research Methods
  • Web Science
Connect with Matt

Email: M.G.Ryan@soton.ac.uk

Professor Pamela Ugwudike LLB (Hons), MA, PhD, FHEA

Professor
Research interests
  • AI Ethics 
  • Algorithms in Justice Systems
  • Trustworthy and Responsible AI
Connect with Pamela

Email: P.Ugwudike@soton.ac.uk

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Operational Tools for Gig-economy

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Selin Ahipasaoglu PhD

Professor
Research interests
  • Convex Optimisation
  • Robust Optimisation
  • Discrete Choice Theory and Applications
Connect with Selin

Email: S.D.Ahipasaoglu@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Dr Carlos Lamas Fernandez

Associate Professor
Research interests
  • Operational Research
  • Cutting and Packing
  • Vehicle Routing
Connect with Carlos

Email: C.Lamas-Fernandez@soton.ac.uk

Professor Sebastian Stein

Professor
Research interests
  • Citizen-Centric Artificial Intelligence Systems
  • Mechanism Design and Incentive Engineering in Multi-Agent Systems
  • Applications of AI in smart energy, transportation, electric vehicle charging and disaster re…
Connect with Sebastian

Email: ss2@ecs.soton.ac.uk

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Relational accountability in using AI for immigration and refugee decision-making: distrust regulation and trustworthiness demonstration

  • Lead researchers:
    Dr Ai Yu
  • Status:
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Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Ai Yu

Associate Professor
Research interests
  • Gender, body and identity in work practices
  • Power, ethics and accountability in organisational settings
  • Ethnography
Connect with Ai

Email: A.Yu@soton.ac.uk

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Research while you sleep - SleepeR

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The Academic Turing Test