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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.
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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.
Dr Donna Brown Biography:
Dr Donna Brown is the Director of Academic Engagement at the Alan Turing Institute and is responsible for the Office of the Director/Strategy, Skills and Academic Engagement teams. She joined the Institute before it formally opened and led the development of processes and programmes so that the Institute was operationally ready in October 2016. She also led the expansion of the university network and is responsible for ensuring the needs of researchers, students and partner university colleagues are met. Before joining the Institute, Donna was on secondment from the MRC National Institute of Medical Research to the Francis Crick Institute where, prior to its opening, she developed its PhD programme and university partner model. Donna has also spent time working in medical research (as a researcher) and research and education management.