About us
Working across all five Colleges, the Institute is developing and fostering a culture of continuous interaction to address important challenges in areas including sustainability, equality, health, and data-driven science.
We are building on a foundation of excellence in methodology including modelling, statistics, machine learning, linguistics, optimisation, behavioural sciences, and the social, ethical, and legal implications of technology.
The University is one of 13 partners in the Alan Turing Institute, established in 2015 as the national Institute for Data Science and AI, and is working in close collaboration to deliver world leading collaborative research across the Turing’s scientific programmes through our Turing Fellows. We are working with the Turing and our other strategic partners, the Rosalind Franklin Institute and Diamond Light Source to deliver Baskerville, a state-of-the-art high performance computing resource for modelling and data analysis funded by EPSRC. With the Turing and Health Data Research UK, we are delivering a national PhD Programme in Health Data Science, funded by the Wellcome Trust.
The Institute also acts as a focal point for knowledge exchange, extending our reach and influence beyond the University to our partners in industry, the NHS and government.
We are developing an exciting and innovative programme of education activities to ensure that every student can study data science and AI. These will join the University’s range of Masters programmes in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, and Responsible Data Science. We are delighted to be able to support funded scholarships for students from underrepresented communities, thanks to funding from the Office for Students, and a generous donation from Deepmind.
Our Research Themes
Academic staff are involved in broad socially integrated themes, from addressing social inequality and maintaining Earth's resources by adapting our usage and approach, to utilising mathematical and computational techniques to develop systems for improving health and wellbeing, together with exploring and employing complex datasets to aid intuitive data modelling.
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Understanding and Addressing Inequality
Combining and integrating data to understand the causes and interactions between different forms of equality. -
Building a Sustainable Future
Understanding and adapting how we use our resources to securing our future on this planet. -
Healthy Bodies, Minds, and Behaviours
Developing the infrastructure and mathematical and computational tools to utilise data to understand the mechanisms of health and illness. -
Accelerating progress in science
Managing the data deluge with new techniques for summarising and revealing structure within datasets, linking modelled underlying phenomena.
Our collaborations
Our collaborations
Alan Turing at Birmingham
Since joining the Turing Institute in 2018, the University's Turing Fellows have been working on data science and AI projects covering a wide variety of academic themes and practical applications.
Baskerville
Working with our strategic partners, we are delivering a state-of-the-art high performance computing resource for modelling and data analysis funded by EPSRC.
IDAI Pump Prime Funding
At the beginning of 2024 the Institute for Data and AI (IDAI) announced our first pump-prime funding call to support the development of innovative and high-impact research ideas.
The Institute for Data and AI Staff Experts
The University of Birmingham is home to more than 140 data science and AI experts who are working together to address important challenges in areas such as sustainability, equality, health, and data-driven science.