This webinar will be delivered by IBM and STFC Hartree Centre scientists collaborating through the Hartree National Centre for Digital Innovation (HNCDI), a programme enabling UK companies to take advantage of artificial intelligence, quantum and high performance computing.

Specifically, the webinar will provide a high-level introduction to key technologies and approaches to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) and explain how these can be applied in a variety of settings to achieve business impact.

Several examples of the use of AI/ML systems will be given, drawing on work previously delivered by the HNCDI and demonstrating the breadth of capabilities that can be supported with these methods.

In this webinar you will discover:

• An introduction to the HNCDI partners – STFC Hartree Centre and IBM Research
• How AI and Machine Learning can drive business impact
• Funding opportunities – how to engage with the HNCDI Programme

This webinar is provided in association with the NAFEMS HNCDI Call which will launch in Coventry on 1 October 2024 and is open to NAFEMS members looking to access fully-funded support to adopt digital technologies.

Within the engineering community, design is, more than ever, being driven by engineering simulation. This call will offer access to specialist resources in AI, ML and related technologies to explore how the use of these digital technologies may benefit the NAFEMS community.

The following underlying themes/technologies have been identified, which we believe may provide the largest impact and be of the most interest to the engineering analysis community:

• AI and ML
• Quantum Computing
• Digital Twins
• Through Life Engineering
• Multiscale

In alignment with UK Government National AI Strategy, the aim of this open call is to demonstrate how digital technologies such as AI, modelling and simulation can help target sustainable productivity for both design and testing as well as manufacturing, and help organisations address issues of scale and efficiency using modelling and simulation and data management.

S​peakers

Dave Braines works for IBM Research UK, and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society.He is an active researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence and works alongside colleagues from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) as part on the Hartree National Centre for Digital Innovation (HNCDI). In this role he leads a team of IBM Researchers focused on AI enhanced simulation investigating how these techniques can support accelerated scientific discovery.

Michalis Smyrnakis obtained his B.Sc. from Athens university of Economics and Business on Statistics, followed by an M.Sc. by research in Aston University on Pattern Analysis and Neural Networks. He obtained his PhD from Bristol University on game-theoretic learning. He is currently leading the Artificial Intelligence Group at the STFC Hartree Centre. His research interests include Game Theory, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Graph Theory and Graph Neural Networks, Deep Learning and Bayesian Inference.