About Us

Part of the Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, UK

Founded on Tuesday, Feb 7, 2017 at 7:55 AM

Publications in top conferences, such as NeurIPS & ICML & CVPR & I(E)CCV

Associated with ELLIS♥

With satellite labs in Spain (Bilbao)✈ and Indonesia (Jakarta)✈

Funded by ERC, EPSRC, DEFRA, and many more

The key research goal of Responsible AI is to develop new artificial intelligence and machine learning models that embed fairness, accountability, transparency, and trustworthiness into them for ensuring ethical outcomes and long-term public confidence in the deployment of automated systems.

Selected Projects

Act.AI
Developing Bias Auditing and Mitigation Tools for Self-Assessment of AI Conformity with the EU AI Act through Statistical Matching

BayesianGDPR
Bayesian Models and Algorithms for Fairness and Transparency

Ethical Machine Learning
Injecting Ethical and Legal Constraints into Machine Learning Models

2018 Huawei AI Challenge
Denoising images using deep learning

ML4PxP
Causal machine learning for development data

A partnership with Heads On and Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Ethical machine learning training for length of stay project

Satellite/Aerial Image Segmentation
Understanding trade-offs between SDGs in urbanising contexts

TANGO
It takes two to tango - a synergistic approach to human-machine decision making

News

13 Dec 2023 Won an ERC Proof of Concept for a project on Act.AI!
18 Apr 2023 Awarded a research grant from the Bank of Indonesia for the project on Governance, Ethical, Legal and Social Impact of Algorithmic Systems in Financial Technologies. The work will be done as part of our satellite lab in Monash Indonesia.
14 Mar 2023 A new 8M € Horizon Europe RIA funded project on human-centric AI. More information can be found here.
04 Nov 2022 A 4-year funding of 1M € per year from Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación /State Research Agency, Spain as part of the Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence accreditation for BCAM. Novi is one of 10 guarantor researchers (investigadores garantes) for this excellence accreditation for the period 1st January 2023 – 31st December 2026 focussing on Trustworthy Machine Learning research area.
01 Jan 2022 We have begun work on a new £12.5m Joint Treasury Outcome Fund pilot programme on Nature-based Solutions for Climate Change at the Landscape Scale. The project is led by Natural England, and University of Sussex work with Kew Science as their research partner.
01 Mar 2021 We are glad to announce the opening of “BCAM Severo Ochoa Strategic Lab on Trustworthy Machine Learning” in Bilbao, Spain! PhD and Postdoctoral positions are available in Trustworthy Machine Learning.
01 Oct 2020 We are happy to announce that our Mypy type stubs library has reached 100 stars on GitHub! 🌟
01 Apr 2020 We have begun work on an ERC-funded project on BayesianGDPR.
12 Dec 2018 A team of PAL PhD students placed among winners in Huawei AI Challenge, winning a cash prize & paid trip to the company’s HQ.