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
Joined OU as web developer from July 2021, my day-to-day activities involved working on accessibility projects, styling and developing new and existing websites.
I'm a part time PhD student aiming to create a scientific hypothesis generation system that can produce plausable and novel hypotheses. I'm working as a part time PhD student at KMI but I also...
Testimonials
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Valentina Presutti, Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies, Italy
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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
Borrego, A., Dessì, D., Ayala, D., Hernández, I., Osborne, F., Recupero, D., Buscaldi, D., Ruiz, D. and Motta, E. (2025) Research hypothesis generation over scientific knowledge graphs, Knowledge-Based Systems, pp. (Early access), Elsevier
