Centre for AI Fundamentals - Manchester

Summer School 2026 | Ellis Manchester 2026 ELLIS Manchester Summer School on Machine Learning for Healthcare and Biology

2026 ELLIS Manchester Summer School on Machine Learning for Healthcare and Biology.

Early bird registration fee - 50% reduction (thanks to funding from The University of Manchester). Register now!

7-9 July: full details at www.ellismcr.org/ss2026

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Next week - 10 Dec, 11am:

AI-Fun and ELLIS Manchester Invited Speaker on 10 Dec is Sam Power from the University of Bristol.

Title: A State-Space Perspective on Modelling and Inference for Online Skill Rating

For more details and to register, please visit www.ticketsource.co.uk/ai-research-...

ELLIS Member and PhD Students contributions to NeurIPS 2025

Celebrating the author contributions of our ELLIS Members and PhD Students at @neuripsconf.bsky.social 2025 - congratulations to all authors!

NeurIPS is joined for the first time by @euripsconf.bsky.social in CPH 🇩🇰, a NeurIPS-endorsed European venue co-developed by ELLIS.

🔗 https://bit.ly/48cRAib

Kicking off Day 2 @ellisinstitute.fi 🇫🇮 celebratory scientific seminar alongside first AI summit
Opening remarks: Samuel Kaski (Director, ELLIS Institute Finland) set the tone for a day of focused scientific exchange on the future of AI
@ellis.eu
www.ellisinstitute.fi/launch-seminar

Ceremonial ribbon-cutting by Peter Sarlin (Institute Co-Founder & CEO at AMD Silo AI), Serge Belongie (ELLIS President), Petteri Orpo (Prime Minister of Finland), Bernhard Schölkopf (ELLIS Co-Founder), and Samuel Kaski (Institute Founding Director and ELLIS Fellow)

Opening remarks by Samuel Kaski (Institute Founding Director and ELLIS Fellow)

Opening remarks by Bernhard Schölkopf (ELLIS Co-Founder), and Serge Belongie (ELLIS President)

🚀 ELLIS Institute Finland 🇫🇮 officially opens today, launching a hub for cutting-edge AI research, talent development, and collaboration across academia, government & industry.

Opening remarks by @samikaski.bsky.social, @serge.belongie.com, Bernhard Schölkopf, PM Petteri Orpo & Peter Sarlin

A white male Professor (Samuel Kaski) with short hair and glasses, wearing a dark coloured shirt and dark blue suit standing in front of large lecture theatre screens.

We are recruiting 3x Research Associate or Research Fellow in #machinelearning. Closing date 1 Dec.

The post-holder will work with Professor Kaski @samikaski.bsky.social on a project connected to his UKRI Turing AI World-Leading Fellowship.

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/internal/Job...

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ELLIOT Project Explore the ELLIOT Project, a Horizon Europe initiative developing open, multimodal foundation models for robust AI generalisation across real-world data.

The positions are funded by ERC, UKRI Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellowship, and www.elliot-ai.eu

More about me and the group at kaski-lab.com

We do probabilistic machine learning, develop new principles and methods and apply them with collaborators in other domains, as AI4Research and AI4Science.

Direct link to Manchester call: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Direct link to Helsinki call: www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi...

I am hiring to my group in @ellisinstitute.fi and @aifunmcr.bsky.social, DL Dec 1

Topics: Multimodal foundation models, out-of-distribution deployable machine learning, collaborative machine learning

kaski-lab.com

Next month, we have Chengchun Shi from LSE, with a talk on 'Doubly Robust Alignment for Large Language Models'. In December, we have Sam Power from @bristoluni.bsky.social. You can find out more about these talks and register to attend here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/ai-research-...

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Male speaker talking to an audience of male and female researchers in a seminar room

Our refreshed 'Invited Speaker Series' is well under way. This month we had Pablo Moreno Muñoz from @upf.edu with a talk titled 'A probabilistic view of self-supervised learning: Challenges and opportunities'. You can watch that here: youtu.be/tA0eNAGc9PY?...

Nov and Dec talk details to follow...

Patients and staff welcome AI as a GP's helping hand Manchester researcher and practicing GP, Dr Benjamin Brown, knows that AI could play a valuable role in the health sector, but only if it’s trusted by patients.  "AI has the potential to reduce worklo...

At The University of Manchester, we're celebrating 75 years of the Turing Test. Alan Turing's seminal paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence, is considered one of the very first papers on AI.

Post-Doc in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

🏹 Job alert: Post-Doc in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing in the scope of the ERC project DECOLLAGE ("Deep Cognition Learning for Language Generation") at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon

📍Lisbon 🇵🇹
📅 Apply by Oct 31st

https://bit.ly/3VGnhtd

"Science is the best problem-solving tool that humanity has; science combined with AI can be even more powerful." This why it pays to invest in long-term, basic research, says
@samikaski.bsky.social in the @aalto.fi Keys to Growth series.
www.ellisinstitute.fi/keys-to-grow...
@ellis.eu

EIML@EurIPS2025 Modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems—ranging from predictive models to generative and large language models—have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, advancing science, healthcare, and everyda...

Still deciding between NeurIPS and EurIPS?

We are delighted to announce that the 1st Workshop on Epistemic Intelligence in Machine Learning will take place in conjunction with EurIPS2025, this December in Copenhagen - check out our workshop website: sites.google.com/view/eiml-eu...

The past, present, and future of computer intelligence | The University of Manchester Research. Teaching and learning. Social responsibility. Discover more about The University of Manchester here.

At Manchester, we’re building on Turing’s legacy:

800+ AI researchers
£75m active grants
Projects in health, climate, energy & beyond

From predicting floods to accelerating drug discovery, AI here is tackling real-world challenges.

Read more 👇
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/magazi...

Turing believed computers should learn like children: start simple, then develop through training + experience. That idea underpins today’s machine learning. His foresight still shapes AI research.

a man wearing suspenders and a watch looks down in front of a machine Alt: Alarn Turing looks down in front of a machine

In 1950, Alan Turing - while at @manchester.ac.uk - proposed a simple but profound experiment: can a machine convincingly imitate human thought?

We now call it the Turing Test. 🧠💻

AI in Science Summit 2025 AI in Science Summit 2025 will convene scientists, industry leaders, investors, and policymakers to explore the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on scientific discovery - and how Europe can drive this transformation with a distinctive an...

📣 Good news! The submission deadline for Posters and Demos at #AIS25 has been extended to Oct 1st.

Organised by the Danish EU Presidency, European Commission & Uni Copenhagen in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 , on 3-4 November 2025.

Learn more & submit early at https://ais25.eu/

#AIS25 #AI #eu2025dk

#machinelearning | Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals DRSciML 2025 is under way! George Stepaniants is talking about 'Learning Memory and Material Dependent Constitutive Laws' Anirbit Mukherjee #machinelearning The University of Manchester Faculty of ...

DRSciML 2025 is under way!

Follow us on LinkedIn for updates: www.linkedin.com/posts/ai-fun...

✨ We kicked off a new season of talks, the AI FUN with ELLIS Invited Speaker Lecture series, brought to you by the Centre for AI FUNdamentals and the #ELLIS Unit at Manchester 🐝

The 1️⃣st talk was given by our guest speaker Rafael Izbicki (@rafael-izbicki.bsky.social) from UFSCar in Brazil 🇧🇷

3 Sept | Our first event of 2025/26 is an invited lecture from Rafael Izbicki from the Federal University of Sao Carlos with a talk titled 'Simulation Based Calibration of Confidence Sets for Statistical Models'. For details/registration, visit www.ticketsource.co.uk/ai-research-...
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The Future Is Biological! Future Data Storage Solutions Workshop Join the conversation on DNA data storage: where tech meets biology to rethink the future.

🔔 For @manchester.ac.uk academics only: Join the "Future Is Biological! DNA Data Storage Workshop.

📅 2 Octorber, 2025
🕛 12:00–16:00
🎟️ Register now: shorturl.at/cGMGq

Explore DNA-based innovation in a friendly, collaborative setting. Got questions or want to present? 📧izzy.hall@manchester.ac.uk

Project Officer:Oxford Road

Interested in joining the Centre for AI Fundamentals as a Project Officer? Find out more about the role and apply here: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

DRSciML

Registrations are now open for the international workshop on foundations of #AI4Science #SciML that we are hosting with Prof. Jakob Zech. In-person seats are very limited, please do register to join online 💥

drsciml.github.io/drsciml/

Call for Papers & Proposals - IKDD CODS 2025 Call for papers and proposals announced for CODS 2025 across various tracks of the conference. The next edition of the conference will be held in IISER Pune on December 17-20, 2025. Go through the det...

I got selected for the "Early Career Highlights" of ACM IKDD International Conference on Data Science (CODS) 2025. Looking forward to the talk at IISER, Pune in December.

www.acm.org/articles/acm...

Some luck to be hosted by a Godel Prize winner, Prof. Sebastien Pokutta, and to present our work in their group 💥 Sebastien heads this "Zuse Institute Berlin (#ZIB) " which is an amazing oasis of applied mathematics bringing together experts from different institutes in Berlin.

Interested in statistics? Prof Subhashis Ghoshal will be delivering the below public lecture tomorrow:

Title: Immersion posterior: Meeting Frequentist Goals under Structural Restrictions
Time: Aug 5 16:00-17:00
Abstract: www.newton.ac.uk/seminar/45562/
Livestream: www.newton.ac.uk/news/watch-l...

Interested in joining the Centre for AI Fundamentals as a Research Fellow or Associate in machine learning? Find out more about the role and apply here: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

PhD Student/Postdoc Position - in Agentic Large Language Models for Education Quick access

🏹 Job alert: Fully funded PhD Student and/or Postdoc Position in Agentic Large Language Models for Education at @ukplab.bsky.social‬

📍Darmstadt 🇩🇪
📅 Apply by July 11th
🔗 More info: https://bit.ly/44gswnc