Our AI Research

Research into artificial intelligence and related topics is carried out in different research groups across several schools and departments, research institutes, doctoral training centres and innovative training networks at the University of Nottingham. In addition, University’s Beacons of Excellence are committed to tackling global challenges in collaboration with a variety of national and international industry partners. 

The University of Nottingham is home to world-class foundational and applied AI research, including:

Agent-based simulation
Computer vision
Human-computer interaction
Modelling

Autonomous systems
Data science
Hybrid AI
Natural language understanding

Big data
Distributed AI
Intelligent decision support systems
The responsible use of AI

Computational optimisation
Explainable AI
Machine learning
Uncertainty in AI

Technical work is embedded in the wider societal context - where our research addresses issues of human rights, policies, regulation, law and ethics related to AI - a constantly shifting landscape as societies adopt and adapt new technologies.