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Overview of Data Science for Science and Humanities at The Alan Turing Institute & the University Partner Network
Join us in conversation on Friday, 20th January at 10am as Dr Georgios Leontidis, Interdisciplinary Director of Data & AI, Dr Donna Brown, Director of Academic Engagement at the Alan Turing Institute, and Programme Director Professor Jonathan Rowe discuss the Alan Turing Institute’s Data Science for Science and Humanities programme. Professor Rowe and Dr Brown will provide an overview of the programme challenges and impact, as well as the Alan Turing Institute’s University Partnership Network.
Data science for science and humanities | The Alan Turing Institute
Professor Jonathan Rowe Biography:
Jon Rowe is Professor of Natural Computation in the School of Computer Science, and Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor (Strategic Projects) at the University of Birmingham. He is Programme Director for the Data Science for Science and Humanities programme at The Alan Turing Institute, and is PI and Chair of the SPF funded AI for science and government project. He is an Associate Editor for Theoretical Computer Science journal. He joined the University of Birmingham in 2000 and his PhD in Artificial Intelligence is from the University of Exeter. Jon's research encompasses the theoretical analysis of nature-inspired algorithms, such as evolutionary algorithms and other randomised search heuristics, along with a range of inter-disciplinary applications from modelling social crowd dynamics to chemical reaction networks to medical imaging techniques.