Machines and AI

Hear from our researchers about how they are working to improve our world through the development of new machines and the applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

In this module, you can learn more about some of our staff and students working on topics linked to the enviroment. Their profile pages contain lots of information about them including their research, inspiration, and their STEM heroes, as well as short interviews. Even more staff and students can be found within the main profile pages, demonstrating lots of different pathways and careers within this topic.

Do watch the researcher talks and try the activities – it's all designed to bring these topics to life!

Researchers

Dr Prerana Gogoi

Dr. Prerana Gogoi is a full-time medical doctor and surgical trainee in the NHS who did her MSc in Surgical Innovation from the Department of Surgery and Cancer at the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial.

Al-Amin Bugaje

Al-Amin is a third year PhD student, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering using machine learning to make robust operating systems for power grids.

Semina Mertzani

Semina is a second year PhD student in the Intelligent Systems and Networks Group, investigating how
to teach AI to imitate human behaviour in collective decision making.

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Al-Amin's research

Al-Amin talks about how his is investigating machine learning to help keep our power systems running smoothly

Al-Amin's research

Al-Amin talks about how his is investigating machine learning to help keep our power systems running

Al-Amin talks about how his is investigating machine learning to help keep our power systems running smoothly

Prerana's research

Prerana talks about surgical robots that are improve medical procedures and doctor performance

Prerana talks about surgical robots that are improve medical procedures and doctor performance.

Semina's research

Semina talks about her research into teaching machines to think like a group of humans

Semina talks about her research into teaching machines to think and make decisions like a group of humans

Activities

Dexterity Activity

These two experiments and videos shows you how to test your dexterity which is a crucial skill for a surgeon and what medical AI machines are helping with.

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Electrical circuit activity

In this experiment you will investigate the difference between series and parallel circuits.

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Pattern Recognition activity

In this activity you will train your computer to recognise patterns in your own images.

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Quiz

Machines and AI module quiz

When you have fully explored the Machines and AI module, including listening to the Researcher interviews, talks and either doing the activities or reviewing them, you can take the module quiz to get a downloadable certificate.

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