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2024-2025

• AI experts at the University of Leicester are part of a new £1.97 million project research network aiming to help people with dementia to live independently by intervening with support earlier. Read the news.
• School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, in collaboration with CGI UK through the CGI SEEDS programme, has co-created the Green Software Guide: a practical resource for reducing carbon emissions in the ICT sector.
• Professor Valerio Lucarini will lead a work package for the Advancing Tipping Point Early Warning (AdvanTip) project, which will focus on the Subpolar Gyre, an ocean current system that could tip quickly and soon.
• An international collaboration between Professor Valerio Lucarini and scientist Mickaël Chekroun has led to applying principles of statistical mechanics to climate science to frame how to distinguish the climate change signal from the 'background noise' of natural climate variability and to flag the nearing of ‘tipping points,’ such as those associated with the collapse of the Atlantic Ocean circulation or of the Amazon forest. Read the news.

2022-2023

• Space Park Leicester (SPL) celebrates first of its kind drone launch - Project on AI-enabled imaging led by Professor Tanya Vladimirova  
• Dr Shuihua Wang and her team's research paper has been awarded 2022 Best Paper Award for Information Fusion.
• Dr Richard Craggs has been awarded a Leicester Student Union Superstar Award for Best Personal Tutor.
• AI research work for depression detection on Twitter has been published in IEEE Trans on Affective Computing by Professor Zhou, H in collaboration with our research partners. Read the press release by the Independent.
• Academics in Mathematical Sciences Alexander Gorban, Bogdan Grechuk and Ivan Tyukin have published a paper in Notices of the American Mathematical Society; a highly prominent publication which is the most widely read mathematical journal in the world. Congratulations to Alexander, Bogdan and Ivan. Read the article.

2020-2021

• Social stress key to population’s rate of COVID-19 infection - research led by Professor Alexander Gorban and Dr Evgeny Mirkes.
• Dr Alberto Paganini has been successful in his Royal Society Industry Fellowship with BlueSky.
• Landscape of 21st Century Mathematics - Dr Bogdan Grechuk's new book is now available.
• Research published by Nature - Professor Huiyi(Joe) Zhou's group worked with the research partners from the University of Cambridge and several other institutions over the world on the topic of heart failure.
• BBC commissions Leicester artist to mark ‘Culture in Quarantine’ - Professor Andrew Hugill has been commissioned to produce a seven-part musical series for BBC platforms this summer examining life in lockdown.
• Meet the 'ethical hacker' Prabhjot Dunglay who helps Google, Apple and Dell stay secure.