Research Grants
The following are current grants held by members of the Centre for Multimodal AI that are of particular relevance:
Clinical evaluation of an AI risk prediction and decision support system for early management of injured patientsKarim Brohi and William Marsh
£765,888 DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY (of the United States) (01-01-2025 - 30-06-2027)
Artificial Neuroscience: metrology and engineering for Deep Learning using Linear AlgebraMark Sandler and Boris Khoruzhenko
£238,701 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-11-2024 - 30-04-2026)
Generative Models Based Robot Manipulation Environment for Human-to-Robot HandoverChangjae Oh
£19,751 Royal Society (01-10-2024 - 30-09-2025)
Smart EQ: Personalising Audio with Context-aware AI using Listener Preferences and Psychological FactorsGeorge Fazekas and Charalampos Saitis
£172,101 Yamaha Corporation (23-09-2024 - 22-09-2028)
Online Speech Enhancement in Scenarios with Low Direct-to-Reverberant-RatioEmmanouil Benetos and Aidan Hogg
£65,621 L-ACOUSTICS UK LIMITED (01-09-2024 - 28-02-2025)
Development and Validation of Smartphone-Based Tools for Characterisation of Gait - QMUL-HUMA KTPCaroline Roney, Zion Tse, Dylan Morrissey, Stuart Miller, Trevor Prior and Greg Slabaugh
£227,485 Innovate UK (01-08-2024 - 31-07-2026)
Project Maestro - Ai Musical Analysis PlatformEmmanouil Benetos and Simon Dixon
£166,349 Innovate UK (01-07-2024 - 30-06-2026)
Addressing socio-technical limitations of LLMs for medical and social computingMaria Liakata, Julia Ive, Matthew Purver, Michael Schlichtkrull, Claude Chelala and Greg Slabaugh
£1,799,332 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-05-2024 - 31-03-2028)
Co-Creator for songwriters & producers: generative AI Creator tools to boost efficiency of the creative processMark Sandler, Haim Dubossarsky and Mathieu Barthet
£320,887 Innovate UK (01-04-2024 - 31-03-2025)
Fine-grained music source separation with deep-learning modelsLin Wang and Mark Sandler
£48,144 Innovate UK (01-04-2024 - 31-03-2025)
StudioSync: AI productivity tools for record labels in the management of musical recordings and creator metadataMark Sandler and Mathieu Barthet
£304,918 Innovate UK (01-04-2024 - 31-03-2025)
Spotify PhD project - Style classification of podcasts using audioEmmanouil Benetos
£33,000 Spotify Ltd (01-03-2024 - 28-02-2026)
Sensing the Forest - Let the Forest Speak using the Internet of Things, Acoustic Ecology and Creative AI (Grant Transfer)Anna Xambo Sedo
£136,153 AHRC Arts and Humanities Research Council (29-01-2024 - 21-09-2025)
Reliable AI and Data OptimisationGeorgios Tzimiropoulos
£339,312 EPSRC - EU Scheme (01-01-2024 - 31-12-2026)
AIM CDT Studentship - UMG 2023George Fazekas
£61,268 Universal Music Group International Limited (01-10-2023 - 30-09-2027)
BBSRC CTP Studentship: Nasim Mohamed Ismail Studentship - MSDGreg Slabaugh and Emma Tjong
£10,400 Merck (01-10-2023 - 30-09-2027)
EPSRC DTP Case Conversion - Industry Contribution: Senadeera DamithGreg Slabaugh
£35,668 Remark AI Remark AI UK Limited (01-10-2023 - 30-09-2027)
Multimodal AI for Multi-omics Data Integration (N. M. Ismail)Greg Slabaugh
£125,917 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (01-10-2023 - 30-09-2027)
Return on cyber security investment (ROCSI)-GRANT TRANSFERYing He
£190,869 ESRC Economic and Social Research Council (01-10-2023 - 30-06-2025)
Developing Spatially Resolved Molecular Drug-Repurposing Assays for Treating Age-Related FrailtyJames Timmons, Peter McCormick and Greg Slabaugh
£331,647 MRC Medical Research Council (30-09-2023 - 29-09-2025)
AIM CDT Yamaha Studentship: Modeling Jazz PianoSimon Dixon
£60,000 Yamaha Corporation (01-04-2023 - 31-01-2027)
Scalable Hybrid Architecture for Wireless Collaborative Federated Learning (SHAFT)Arumugam Nallanathan and Andrea Cavallaro
£445,428 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-04-2023 - 31-03-2026)
Smart Farm and Agri-environmental Big Data Space (PI: Ebroul lzquierdo)Ebroul Izquierdo
£305,116 EPSRC - EU Scheme (01-02-2023 - 31-01-2029)
Re-profiled BRC 2022-27 Final - Precision Digital Health, Cardiovascular Devices and TrialsJohn Whiteley and Greg Slabaugh
£3,519,133 NIHR National Institute for Health Research (01-12-2022 - 30-11-2027)
Re-profiled BRC 2022-27 Final - Precision Musculoskeletal CareJohn Whiteley, Costantino Pitzalis, Martin Knight, Greg Slabaugh and Xavier Griffin
£3,343,542 NIHR National Institute for Health Research (01-12-2022 - 30-11-2027)
Innovate UK KTP - WiseAlexander Shestopaloff and Greg Slabaugh
£219,928 Innovate UK (01-11-2022 - 30-11-2025)
IGGI CDT Studentship: Dominik JeurissenDiego Perez-Liebana
£48,073 The Creative Assembly Limited (03-10-2022 - 02-07-2027)
CTP Training Grant: William DeeGreg Slabaugh
£123,829 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (01-10-2022 - 30-09-2026)
Deploying Explainable AI to Reduce Time to Treatment in TraumaKarim Brohi, Zane Perkins and William Marsh
£94,806 Rosetrees Trust (01-10-2022 - 31-12-2025)
BBSRC AIDD CTP CASE Award: William DeeGreg Slabaugh
£8,600 EXSCIENTIA LIMITED (26-09-2022 - 25-09-2026)
Public Engagement Champion via cs4fnPaul Curzon and William Marsh
£162,606 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-06-2022 - 31-05-2025)
Smart Solutions Towards Cellular-connected Unmanned Aerial Vehicles System (Autonomy)Arumugam Nallanathan and Andrea Cavallaro
£409,171 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-04-2022 - 15-01-2026)
Deep Learning based Multispectral Image Analysis for Retinal Lesion Detection, Segmentation and RecognitionQianni Zhang
£12,000 Royal Society (31-03-2022 - 30-09-2025)
Annotating Reference and Coreference In Dialogue Using Conversational Agents in gamesMassimo Poesio, Julian Hough, Diego Perez-Liebana and Matthew Purver
£986,834 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-02-2022 - 31-07-2025)
Anatomical And Functional Analysis Of The Soft Palate And Associated MusculatureQianni Zhang
£132,620 BH NHS Barts Health NHS (01-01-2022 - 31-12-2025)
Unrestricted donation to support research activitiesJosh Reiss
£26,375 Adobe Inc (01-10-2021 - 30-09-2026)
AIM Studentship SteinbergGeorge Fazekas
£112,436 Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH (20-09-2021 - 31-01-2026)
Bayesian Network Decision Support in managing low back pain: Development, exploration & feasibilityAdele Hill, Dylan Morrissey and William Marsh
£181,515 Barts and the London Charity (01-09-2021 - 31-08-2025)
Bela/RAEng Senior Research Fellowship in Embedded Music Computing: PhD studentship and consumablesAndrew Mcpherson
£68,000 Augmented Instruments Ltd (01-03-2021 - 28-02-2026)
RAEng Senior Research Fellowship : Embedded music computingAndrew Mcpherson
£208,774 Royal Academy of Engineering (01-03-2021 - 28-02-2026)
Designing new musical technologies for older adultsAndrew Mcpherson
£24,879 MRC Medical Research Council (01-02-2021 - 31-01-2025)
EPSRC DTP Mobility 2020Eram Rizvi, Mark Sandler, Nicholas Bryan-Kinns and Jun Chen
£1,705,691 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-10-2020 - 30-04-2028)
EMEA PhD Agreement MRL 2020-032Diego Perez-Liebana
£67,008 Microsoft Research Limited (UK) (16-09-2020 - 15-09-2025)
Emotion-driven audio-visual game design using AIMathieu Barthet
£33,500 OVOMIND (14-09-2020 - 13-09-2025)
Industry-scale machine listening for music and audio data”Simon Dixon and Emmanouil Benetos
£108,000 Spotify Ltd (14-09-2020 - 31-01-2025)
IGGI2: Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence - CDT Phase 2Simon Lucas, Laurissa Tokarchuk, Diego Perez-Liebana, Jeremy Gow, Simon Colton and Peter Cowling
£3,004,935 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-10-2019 - 30-09-2027)
UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence and MusicSimon Dixon, Emmanouil Benetos, Nicholas Bryan-Kinns, Mark Sandler, Andrew Mcpherson, Mathieu Barthet, George Fazekas, Ekaterina Ivanova, Anna Xambo Sedo and Charalampos Saitis
£6,519,934 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-07-2019 - 31-08-2028)