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KMi PhD student brings his research to Amazon

Wednesday 7 Oct 2026

Tanay Aggarwal, a PhD student at KMi, has joined Amazon as an Applied Scientist II for a 16-week internship in Seattle, where he will apply his doctoral research on artificial intelligence and information retrieval in an industrial setting. Tanay’s PhD, supervised by Dr Angelo Salatino, Dr Francesco Osborne, and Prof Enrico Motta, investigates how large […]

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Rethinking AI in Higher Education through Metaheutagogy

Monday 5 Oct 2026

KMi’s Senior Research Fellow Dr Alexander Mikroyannidis presented his latest work on AI-enhanced learning at the 8th International Conference on Higher Education Learning Methodologies and Technologies Online (HELMeTO 2026), held in Cagliari, Italy, from 28-30 September 2026. The conference brought together academics, researchers and practitioners from around the world to discuss advances in digital learning methodologies and technologies […]

 

Three new UKRI projects strengthen KMi’s leadership in AI for Metascience

Wednesday 30 Sep 2026

KMi’s Francesco Osborne and Angelo Salatino, have secured UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) support for three new metascience projects worth approximately £500,000, bringing over £290,000 directly to the University. Osborne will lead the largest project, TRUST-AI-PR: Trustworthy and Robust AI Support for Peer Review, an international initiative aiming to shape the future of trustworthy artificial […]

Celebrating the success of SEMANTiCS 2026

Monday 21 Sep 2026

Last week, from 15 to 17 September, the 22nd edition of the International Conference on Semantics Systems (commonly known as SEMANTiCS) took place in the beautiful city of Ghent, Belgium. SEMANTiCS is a globally recognised venue where researchers, industry experts, and business leaders exchange knowledge on Knowledge Graphs and Artificial Intelligence. This year’s theme “Bridging […]

 

Unlearning AI at ASC 2026: Queer futures, thought collectives and cybernetics

Tuesday 1 Sep 2026

The Shifting Power team attended the annual conference of the American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) in Ouro Preto, Brazil from the 3rd – 7th of August 2026. This was a new community for our team, the home community of our long-time academic partner Ben (see our podcast “Computer Séance” and our symposium “After AI?”). Given what we understood about cybernetics – its highly interdisciplinary beginnings and creative scholarship – we […]


KMi brings human-centred AI perspectives to International Digital Education Forum

Prof John Domingue represented KMi at two connected events at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, contributing two keynote presentations and taking part in an international expert panel on the future of education in the age of artificial intelligence. The Sino-UK Digital Education Innovation and Leadership Workshop, held on 4 August, was followed by the 2026 […]

Advancing AI approaches to intangible cultural heritage at a British Academy workshop in Rome

KMi researcher Dr Alessio Antonini and Prof John Domingue recently convened a successful British Academy–funded workshop in Rome (26–28 May 2026) at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, focusing on the Intangible Cultural Heritage of littorals.  The workshop brought together collaborators to develop a new research bid for a Horizon 2027 […]

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