KMi is a diverse and multidisciplinary R&D lab that has been at the forefront of innovation since 1995, conducting research in computing technologies for social and environmental good. Our research spans Semantic Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Educational Media, Social Data Science, Scholarly Data, Blockchain, Citizen Science, Collective Intelligence, Smart Cities, and others.
Upcoming Seminar
AI: Creating for Culture with Jocelyn Burnham
This event will take place on Tuesday 25 March 2025
Jocelyn Burnham - AI for Culture
In this high energy talk, discover how AI is merging with human creativity, self-expression, and - well, weirdness - to produce things we've never been able to do before. From generating...
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People
I am the Executive Assistant to the Director of KMi, Professor Harith Alani, Alan Fletcher (KMi Lab Manager & Head of STEM Research & Enterprise) Prof. Anna De Liddo (KMi Director of Research). I am...
Dr Alessio Antonini is a research fellow at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University. He is the lead of the Knowledge Design team, part of the Intelligent Systems and Data Science group....
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Publications
Mikroyannidis, A., Ekuban, A., Kwarteng, J. and Domingue, J. (2025) Best Practices for the Responsible Adoption of Generative AI in Higher Education, Proceedings, 114, 1, pp. 1-8
Herodotou, C., Carr, J., Shrestha, S., Comfort, C., Bayer, V., Maguire, C., Lee, J., Mulholland, P. and Fernandez, M. (2025) Prescriptive analytics motivating distance learning student action: A case study of a student-facing dashboard, LAK25: The 15th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (LAK 2025), Dublin, Ireland
Ao, S. (2025) Building Trustworthy AI: Uncertainty Quantification and Failure Detection in Large Vision-Language Models
