Centre for AI Fundamentals - Manchester
@aifunmcr.bsky.social
Centre for AI Fundamentals
ELLIS Manchester
Foundational AI research
www.ai-fun.manchester.ac.uk
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www.manchester.ac.uk
ELLIS Manchester
Foundational AI research
www.ai-fun.manchester.ac.uk
ellismcr.org
ellis.eu
www.manchester.ac.uk
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The positions are funded by ERC, UKRI Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellowship, and www.elliot-ai.eu
More about me and the group at kaski-lab.com
More about me and the group at kaski-lab.com
ELLIOT Project
Explore the ELLIOT Project, a Horizon Europe initiative developing open, multimodal foundation models for robust AI generalisation across real-world data.
www.elliot-ai.eu
November 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The positions are funded by ERC, UKRI Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellowship, and www.elliot-ai.eu
More about me and the group at kaski-lab.com
More about me and the group at kaski-lab.com
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We do probabilistic machine learning, develop new principles and methods and apply them with collaborators in other domains, as AI4Research and AI4Science.
Direct link to Manchester call: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Direct link to Helsinki call: www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi...
Direct link to Manchester call: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Direct link to Helsinki call: www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi...
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 11:09 AM
We do probabilistic machine learning, develop new principles and methods and apply them with collaborators in other domains, as AI4Research and AI4Science.
Direct link to Manchester call: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Direct link to Helsinki call: www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi...
Direct link to Manchester call: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Direct link to Helsinki call: www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi...
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I am hiring to my group in @ellisinstitute.fi and @aifunmcr.bsky.social, DL Dec 1
Topics: Multimodal foundation models, out-of-distribution deployable machine learning, collaborative machine learning
kaski-lab.com
Topics: Multimodal foundation models, out-of-distribution deployable machine learning, collaborative machine learning
kaski-lab.com
Samuel Kaski
kaski-lab.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I am hiring to my group in @ellisinstitute.fi and @aifunmcr.bsky.social, DL Dec 1
Topics: Multimodal foundation models, out-of-distribution deployable machine learning, collaborative machine learning
kaski-lab.com
Topics: Multimodal foundation models, out-of-distribution deployable machine learning, collaborative machine learning
kaski-lab.com
Our refreshed 'Invited Speaker Series' is well under way. This month we had Pablo Moreno Muñoz from @upf.edu with a talk titled 'A probabilistic view of self-supervised learning: Challenges and opportunities'. You can watch that here: youtu.be/tA0eNAGc9PY?...
Nov and Dec talk details to follow...
Nov and Dec talk details to follow...
October 16, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Our refreshed 'Invited Speaker Series' is well under way. This month we had Pablo Moreno Muñoz from @upf.edu with a talk titled 'A probabilistic view of self-supervised learning: Challenges and opportunities'. You can watch that here: youtu.be/tA0eNAGc9PY?...
Nov and Dec talk details to follow...
Nov and Dec talk details to follow...
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At The University of Manchester, we're celebrating 75 years of the Turing Test. Alan Turing's seminal paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence, is considered one of the very first papers on AI.
Patients and staff welcome AI as a GP's helping hand
Manchester researcher and practicing GP, Dr Benjamin Brown, knows that AI could play a valuable role in the health sector, but only if it’s trusted by patients. "AI has the potential to reduce worklo...
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October 2, 2025 at 7:26 AM
At The University of Manchester, we're celebrating 75 years of the Turing Test. Alan Turing's seminal paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence, is considered one of the very first papers on AI.
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🏹 Job alert: Post-Doc in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing in the scope of the ERC project DECOLLAGE ("Deep Cognition Learning for Language Generation") at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon
📍Lisbon 🇵🇹
📅 Apply by Oct 31st
https://bit.ly/3VGnhtd
📍Lisbon 🇵🇹
📅 Apply by Oct 31st
https://bit.ly/3VGnhtd
Post-Doc in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...
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October 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🏹 Job alert: Post-Doc in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing in the scope of the ERC project DECOLLAGE ("Deep Cognition Learning for Language Generation") at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon
📍Lisbon 🇵🇹
📅 Apply by Oct 31st
https://bit.ly/3VGnhtd
📍Lisbon 🇵🇹
📅 Apply by Oct 31st
https://bit.ly/3VGnhtd
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"Science is the best problem-solving tool that humanity has; science combined with AI can be even more powerful." This why it pays to invest in long-term, basic research, says
@samikaski.bsky.social in the @aalto.fi Keys to Growth series.
www.ellisinstitute.fi/keys-to-grow...
@ellis.eu
@samikaski.bsky.social in the @aalto.fi Keys to Growth series.
www.ellisinstitute.fi/keys-to-grow...
@ellis.eu
Keys to growth: Basic research in AI is like long-term investing | ELLIS Institute Finland
Basic research in AI doesn’t always generate quick wins or clickbait headlines, but its benefits can be seen throughout society
www.ellisinstitute.fi
September 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
"Science is the best problem-solving tool that humanity has; science combined with AI can be even more powerful." This why it pays to invest in long-term, basic research, says
@samikaski.bsky.social in the @aalto.fi Keys to Growth series.
www.ellisinstitute.fi/keys-to-grow...
@ellis.eu
@samikaski.bsky.social in the @aalto.fi Keys to Growth series.
www.ellisinstitute.fi/keys-to-grow...
@ellis.eu
Still deciding between NeurIPS and EurIPS?
We are delighted to announce that the 1st Workshop on Epistemic Intelligence in Machine Learning will take place in conjunction with EurIPS2025, this December in Copenhagen - check out our workshop website: sites.google.com/view/eiml-eu...
We are delighted to announce that the 1st Workshop on Epistemic Intelligence in Machine Learning will take place in conjunction with EurIPS2025, this December in Copenhagen - check out our workshop website: sites.google.com/view/eiml-eu...
EIML@EurIPS2025
Modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems—ranging from predictive models to generative and large language models—have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, advancing science, healthcare, and everyda...
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September 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Still deciding between NeurIPS and EurIPS?
We are delighted to announce that the 1st Workshop on Epistemic Intelligence in Machine Learning will take place in conjunction with EurIPS2025, this December in Copenhagen - check out our workshop website: sites.google.com/view/eiml-eu...
We are delighted to announce that the 1st Workshop on Epistemic Intelligence in Machine Learning will take place in conjunction with EurIPS2025, this December in Copenhagen - check out our workshop website: sites.google.com/view/eiml-eu...
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At Manchester, we’re building on Turing’s legacy:
800+ AI researchers
£75m active grants
Projects in health, climate, energy & beyond
From predicting floods to accelerating drug discovery, AI here is tackling real-world challenges.
Read more 👇
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/magazi...
800+ AI researchers
£75m active grants
Projects in health, climate, energy & beyond
From predicting floods to accelerating drug discovery, AI here is tackling real-world challenges.
Read more 👇
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/magazi...
The past, present, and future of computer intelligence | The University of Manchester
Research. Teaching and learning. Social responsibility. Discover more about The University of Manchester here.
www.manchester.ac.uk
September 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
At Manchester, we’re building on Turing’s legacy:
800+ AI researchers
£75m active grants
Projects in health, climate, energy & beyond
From predicting floods to accelerating drug discovery, AI here is tackling real-world challenges.
Read more 👇
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/magazi...
800+ AI researchers
£75m active grants
Projects in health, climate, energy & beyond
From predicting floods to accelerating drug discovery, AI here is tackling real-world challenges.
Read more 👇
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/magazi...
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Turing believed computers should learn like children: start simple, then develop through training + experience. That idea underpins today’s machine learning. His foresight still shapes AI research.
September 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Turing believed computers should learn like children: start simple, then develop through training + experience. That idea underpins today’s machine learning. His foresight still shapes AI research.
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In 1950, Alan Turing - while at @manchester.ac.uk - proposed a simple but profound experiment: can a machine convincingly imitate human thought?
We now call it the Turing Test. 🧠💻
We now call it the Turing Test. 🧠💻
a man wearing suspenders and a watch looks down in front of a machine
Alt: Alarn Turing looks down in front of a machine
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September 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
In 1950, Alan Turing - while at @manchester.ac.uk - proposed a simple but profound experiment: can a machine convincingly imitate human thought?
We now call it the Turing Test. 🧠💻
We now call it the Turing Test. 🧠💻
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📣 Good news! The submission deadline for Posters and Demos at #AIS25 has been extended to Oct 1st.
Organised by the Danish EU Presidency, European Commission & Uni Copenhagen in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 , on 3-4 November 2025.
Learn more & submit early at https://ais25.eu/
#AIS25 #AI #eu2025dk
Organised by the Danish EU Presidency, European Commission & Uni Copenhagen in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 , on 3-4 November 2025.
Learn more & submit early at https://ais25.eu/
#AIS25 #AI #eu2025dk
AI in Science Summit 2025
AI in Science Summit 2025 will convene scientists, industry leaders, investors, and policymakers to explore the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on scientific discovery - and how Europe can drive this transformation with a distinctive an...
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September 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
📣 Good news! The submission deadline for Posters and Demos at #AIS25 has been extended to Oct 1st.
Organised by the Danish EU Presidency, European Commission & Uni Copenhagen in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 , on 3-4 November 2025.
Learn more & submit early at https://ais25.eu/
#AIS25 #AI #eu2025dk
Organised by the Danish EU Presidency, European Commission & Uni Copenhagen in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 , on 3-4 November 2025.
Learn more & submit early at https://ais25.eu/
#AIS25 #AI #eu2025dk
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✨ We kicked off a new season of talks, the AI FUN with ELLIS Invited Speaker Lecture series, brought to you by the Centre for AI FUNdamentals and the #ELLIS Unit at Manchester 🐝
The 1️⃣st talk was given by our guest speaker Rafael Izbicki (@rafael-izbicki.bsky.social) from UFSCar in Brazil 🇧🇷
The 1️⃣st talk was given by our guest speaker Rafael Izbicki (@rafael-izbicki.bsky.social) from UFSCar in Brazil 🇧🇷
September 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
✨ We kicked off a new season of talks, the AI FUN with ELLIS Invited Speaker Lecture series, brought to you by the Centre for AI FUNdamentals and the #ELLIS Unit at Manchester 🐝
The 1️⃣st talk was given by our guest speaker Rafael Izbicki (@rafael-izbicki.bsky.social) from UFSCar in Brazil 🇧🇷
The 1️⃣st talk was given by our guest speaker Rafael Izbicki (@rafael-izbicki.bsky.social) from UFSCar in Brazil 🇧🇷
3 Sept | Our first event of 2025/26 is an invited lecture from Rafael Izbicki from the Federal University of Sao Carlos with a talk titled 'Simulation Based Calibration of Confidence Sets for Statistical Models'. For details/registration, visit www.ticketsource.co.uk/ai-research-...
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September 1, 2025 at 9:22 AM
3 Sept | Our first event of 2025/26 is an invited lecture from Rafael Izbicki from the Federal University of Sao Carlos with a talk titled 'Simulation Based Calibration of Confidence Sets for Statistical Models'. For details/registration, visit www.ticketsource.co.uk/ai-research-...
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#ai
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🔔 For @manchester.ac.uk academics only: Join the "Future Is Biological! DNA Data Storage Workshop.
📅 2 Octorber, 2025
🕛 12:00–16:00
🎟️ Register now: shorturl.at/cGMGq
Explore DNA-based innovation in a friendly, collaborative setting. Got questions or want to present? 📧izzy.hall@manchester.ac.uk
📅 2 Octorber, 2025
🕛 12:00–16:00
🎟️ Register now: shorturl.at/cGMGq
Explore DNA-based innovation in a friendly, collaborative setting. Got questions or want to present? 📧izzy.hall@manchester.ac.uk
The Future Is Biological! Future Data Storage Solutions Workshop
Join the conversation on DNA data storage: where tech meets biology to rethink the future.
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August 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
🔔 For @manchester.ac.uk academics only: Join the "Future Is Biological! DNA Data Storage Workshop.
📅 2 Octorber, 2025
🕛 12:00–16:00
🎟️ Register now: shorturl.at/cGMGq
Explore DNA-based innovation in a friendly, collaborative setting. Got questions or want to present? 📧izzy.hall@manchester.ac.uk
📅 2 Octorber, 2025
🕛 12:00–16:00
🎟️ Register now: shorturl.at/cGMGq
Explore DNA-based innovation in a friendly, collaborative setting. Got questions or want to present? 📧izzy.hall@manchester.ac.uk
Interested in joining the Centre for AI Fundamentals as a Project Officer? Find out more about the role and apply here: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Project Officer:Oxford Road
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August 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Interested in joining the Centre for AI Fundamentals as a Project Officer? Find out more about the role and apply here: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Registrations are now open for the international workshop on foundations of #AI4Science #SciML that we are hosting with Prof. Jakob Zech. In-person seats are very limited, please do register to join online 💥
drsciml.github.io/drsciml/
drsciml.github.io/drsciml/
DRSciML
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August 21, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Registrations are now open for the international workshop on foundations of #AI4Science #SciML that we are hosting with Prof. Jakob Zech. In-person seats are very limited, please do register to join online 💥
drsciml.github.io/drsciml/
drsciml.github.io/drsciml/
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I got selected for the "Early Career Highlights" of ACM IKDD International Conference on Data Science (CODS) 2025. Looking forward to the talk at IISER, Pune in December.
www.acm.org/articles/acm...
www.acm.org/articles/acm...
Call for Papers & Proposals - IKDD CODS 2025
Call for papers and proposals announced for CODS 2025 across various tracks of the conference. The next edition of the conference will be held in IISER Pune on December 17-20, 2025. Go through the det...
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August 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I got selected for the "Early Career Highlights" of ACM IKDD International Conference on Data Science (CODS) 2025. Looking forward to the talk at IISER, Pune in December.
www.acm.org/articles/acm...
www.acm.org/articles/acm...
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Some luck to be hosted by a Godel Prize winner, Prof. Sebastien Pokutta, and to present our work in their group 💥 Sebastien heads this "Zuse Institute Berlin (#ZIB) " which is an amazing oasis of applied mathematics bringing together experts from different institutes in Berlin.
August 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Some luck to be hosted by a Godel Prize winner, Prof. Sebastien Pokutta, and to present our work in their group 💥 Sebastien heads this "Zuse Institute Berlin (#ZIB) " which is an amazing oasis of applied mathematics bringing together experts from different institutes in Berlin.
Interested in statistics? Prof Subhashis Ghoshal will be delivering the below public lecture tomorrow:
Title: Immersion posterior: Meeting Frequentist Goals under Structural Restrictions
Time: Aug 5 16:00-17:00
Abstract: www.newton.ac.uk/seminar/45562/
Livestream: www.newton.ac.uk/news/watch-l...
Title: Immersion posterior: Meeting Frequentist Goals under Structural Restrictions
Time: Aug 5 16:00-17:00
Abstract: www.newton.ac.uk/seminar/45562/
Livestream: www.newton.ac.uk/news/watch-l...
August 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Interested in statistics? Prof Subhashis Ghoshal will be delivering the below public lecture tomorrow:
Title: Immersion posterior: Meeting Frequentist Goals under Structural Restrictions
Time: Aug 5 16:00-17:00
Abstract: www.newton.ac.uk/seminar/45562/
Livestream: www.newton.ac.uk/news/watch-l...
Title: Immersion posterior: Meeting Frequentist Goals under Structural Restrictions
Time: Aug 5 16:00-17:00
Abstract: www.newton.ac.uk/seminar/45562/
Livestream: www.newton.ac.uk/news/watch-l...
Interested in joining the Centre for AI Fundamentals as a Research Fellow or Associate in machine learning? Find out more about the role and apply here: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
July 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Interested in joining the Centre for AI Fundamentals as a Research Fellow or Associate in machine learning? Find out more about the role and apply here: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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🏹 Job alert: Fully funded PhD Student and/or Postdoc Position in Agentic Large Language Models for Education at @ukplab.bsky.social
📍Darmstadt 🇩🇪
📅 Apply by July 11th
🔗 More info: https://bit.ly/44gswnc
📍Darmstadt 🇩🇪
📅 Apply by July 11th
🔗 More info: https://bit.ly/44gswnc
PhD Student/Postdoc Position - in Agentic Large Language Models for Education
Quick access
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June 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🏹 Job alert: Fully funded PhD Student and/or Postdoc Position in Agentic Large Language Models for Education at @ukplab.bsky.social
📍Darmstadt 🇩🇪
📅 Apply by July 11th
🔗 More info: https://bit.ly/44gswnc
📍Darmstadt 🇩🇪
📅 Apply by July 11th
🔗 More info: https://bit.ly/44gswnc
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🚨 NeurIPS 2025 Reviewers - A reminder that his year the Responsible Review Initiative is in effect. To learn what this implies for reviewers who fail to submit high quality reviews within the timeline, see the link.
Reviews are due 2nd July 11.59pm AOE
blog.neurips.cc/2025/05/02/r...
Reviews are due 2nd July 11.59pm AOE
blog.neurips.cc/2025/05/02/r...
Responsible Reviewing Initiative for NeurIPS 2025 – NeurIPS Blog
blog.neurips.cc
June 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
🚨 NeurIPS 2025 Reviewers - A reminder that his year the Responsible Review Initiative is in effect. To learn what this implies for reviewers who fail to submit high quality reviews within the timeline, see the link.
Reviews are due 2nd July 11.59pm AOE
blog.neurips.cc/2025/05/02/r...
Reviews are due 2nd July 11.59pm AOE
blog.neurips.cc/2025/05/02/r...
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Our "delta-GCLip" is the *only* known adaptive gradient algorithm that provably trains deep-nets AND is practically competitive. That's the message of our recently accepted #TMLR paper - and my 4th TMLR journal 🙂
openreview.net/pdf?id=ABT1X...
#optimization #deeplearningtheory
openreview.net/pdf?id=ABT1X...
#optimization #deeplearningtheory
openreview.net
June 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Our "delta-GCLip" is the *only* known adaptive gradient algorithm that provably trains deep-nets AND is practically competitive. That's the message of our recently accepted #TMLR paper - and my 4th TMLR journal 🙂
openreview.net/pdf?id=ABT1X...
#optimization #deeplearningtheory
openreview.net/pdf?id=ABT1X...
#optimization #deeplearningtheory