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 patients
Karim 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 Algebra
Mark 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 Handover
Changjae Oh
£19,751 Royal Society
01-10-2024 - 30-09-2025 - Smart EQ: Personalising Audio with Context-aware AI using Listener Preferences and Psychological Factors
George Fazekas and Charalampos Saitis
£172,101 Yamaha Corporation
23-09-2024 - 22-09-2028 - Online Speech Enhancement in Scenarios with Low Direct-to-Reverberant-Ratio
Emmanouil 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 KTP
Caroline Roney, Zion Tse, Dylan Morrissey, Stuart Miller, Trevor Prior and Greg Slabaugh
£227,485 Innovate UK
01-08-2024 - 31-07-2026 - Development of Multi-Modal Foundational Models and AI Accelerators for Zero-shot Intelligent Surveillance System
Changjae Oh
£384,699 KIAT Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology
01-08-2024 - 31-07-2027 - Project Maestro - AI Musical Analysis Platform
Emmanouil Benetos and Simon Dixon
£166,349 Innovate UK
01-07-2024 - 30-06-2026 - Music Performance Assessment and Feedback (MPAF)
Simon Dixon and Emmanouil Benetos
£250,000 Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music
24-06-2024 - 23-12-2025 - Addressing socio-technical limitations of LLMs for medical and social computing
Maria 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 process
Mark Sandler, Haim Dubossarsky and Mathieu Barthet
£320,887 Innovate UK
01-04-2024 - 31-03-2025 - Fine-grained music source separation with deep-learning models
Lin Wang and Mark Sandler
£48,144 Innovate UK
01-04-2024 - 31-03-2025 - ProStyle
Josh Reiss
£74,786 Innovate UK
01-04-2024 - 31-03-2025 - StudioSync: AI productivity tools for record labels in the management of musical recordings and creator metadata
Mark Sandler and Mathieu Barthet
£304,918 Innovate UK
01-04-2024 - 31-03-2025 - Style classification of podcasts using audio
Emmanouil 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 Optimisation
Georgios Tzimiropoulos
£339,312 EPSRC - EU Scheme
01-01-2024 - 31-12-2026 - AIM CDT Studentship - Sony 2023
George Fazekas
£150,000 SONY EUROPE B.V.
01-10-2023 - 30-09-2027 - AIM CDT Studentship - UMG 2023
George Fazekas
£61,268 Universal Music Group International Limited
01-10-2023 - 30-09-2027 - BBSRC CTP Studentship: Nasim Mohamed Ismail Studentship - MSD
Greg Slabaugh and Emma Tjong
£10,400 Merck
01-10-2023 - 30-09-2027 - EPSRC DTP Case Conversion - Industry Contribution: Senadeera Damith
Greg 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 TRANSFER
Ying 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 Frailty
James Timmons, Peter McCormick and Greg Slabaugh
£331,647 MRC Medical Research Council
30-09-2023 - 29-09-2025 - AIM CDT Yamaha Studentship: Modeling Jazz Piano
Simon 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 Trials
John Whiteley and Greg Slabaugh
£3,519,133 NIHR National Institute for Health Research
01-12-2022 - 30-11-2027 - Precision Musculoskeletal Care
John 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 - Wise
Alexander Shestopaloff and Greg Slabaugh
£219,928 Innovate UK
01-11-2022 - 30-11-2025 - IGGI CDT Studentship: Dominik Jeurissen
Diego Perez-Liebana
£48,073 The Creative Assembly Limited
03-10-2022 - 02-07-2027 - CTP Training Grant: William Dee
Greg 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 Trauma
Karim Brohi, Zane Perkins and William Marsh
£94,806 Rosetrees Trust
01-10-2022 - 31-12-2025 - SHIFT - PI: Ebroul Izquierdo
Ebroul Izquierdo
£370,577 EPSRC - EU Scheme
01-10-2022 - 30-09-2025 - BBSRC AIDD CTP CASE Award: William Dee
Greg Slabaugh
£8,600 EXSCIENTIA LIMITED
26-09-2022 - 25-09-2026 - AIM CDT Studentship: Tyler McIntosh
Simon Dixon
£140,000 DAACI Ltd
19-09-2022 - 31-12-2026 - Public Engagement Champion via cs4fn
Paul 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 Recognition
Qianni Zhang
£12,000 Royal Society
31-03-2022 - 30-09-2025 - Annotating Reference and Coreference In Dialogue Using Conversational Agents in games
Massimo 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 Musculature
Qianni Zhang
£132,620 BH NHS Barts Health NHS
01-01-2022 - 31-12-2025 - Unrestricted donation to support research activities
Josh Reiss
£26,375 Adobe Inc
01-10-2021 - 30-09-2026 - AIM Studentship Steinberg
George Fazekas
£112,436 Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH
20-09-2021 - 31-01-2026 - Bayesian Network Decision Support in managing low back pain: Development, exploration & feasibility
Adele 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 consumables
Andrew Mcpherson
£68,000 Augmented Instruments Ltd
01-03-2021 - 28-02-2026 - RAEng Senior Research Fellowship : Embedded music computing
Andrew Mcpherson
£208,774 Royal Academy of Engineering
01-03-2021 - 28-02-2026 - Adobe Research Gift
Shaogang Gong
£55,456 Adobe Inc
01-10-2020 - 28-09-2028 - EPSRC DTP Mobility 2020
Eram 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 2020-032
Diego Perez-Liebana
£67,008 Microsoft Research Limited (UK)
16-09-2020 - 15-09-2025 - Emotion-driven audio-visual game design using AI
Mathieu Barthet
£33,500 OVOMIND
14-09-2020 - 13-09-2025 - IGGI2: Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence - CDT Phase 2
Simon 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 Music
Simon 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