Leading the charge
AI researchers have designed a new pricing system based on online auction platforms, to make charging electric vehicles more effective.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence is a long-established discipline at the University of Southampton with world-class researchers working in various elements of AI, including deep learning, intelligent agents, machine learning, game theory, evolutionary algorithms, complexity science, biometrics and machine vision. Academics are also inspiring the next generation of experts through our highly successful MSc in Artificial Intelligence and undergraduate MEng degrees in Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence and Electronic Engineering with Artificial Intelligence.
Discover some of our work in AI
Walk this way
Using computer vision techniques, our pioneering work in gait biometrics has had a significant impact on public policy, national security processes, forensic service practice and the economy.
Can AI score in fantasy football?
A team of artificial intelligence experts is challenging fantasy football managers across the world to take on their fiercely competitive machine learning algorithm.
Recent achievements in artificial intelligence
- Southampton set to spearhead the next generation of Artificial Intelligence innovators as part of a £100m UKRI investment
- Computer scientists named as Fellows of the Alan Turing Institute
- ECS entrepreneurs secure £100k seed investment for retail customer tracking system
- AXA Research Fund recognises Southampton expert’s contribution to responsible artificial intelligence
- Centre for Machine Intelligence launched to help build a smarter and safer society
- HCI and AI research around meaningful consent is cover story for ACM's Interaction magazine
- MSc in Artificial Intelligence numbers double in course’s tenth year
- ECS Professor calls for UK to extract value from AI in major review
- ORCHID project awarded top prize for data and connectivity by The Engineer
- Best Innovative Applications Paper award at 2016 Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems conference
- Southampton a founding partner of the EPSRC UK Robotics and Autonomous Systems Network
- Honourable mention for 2016 Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research prize
- Article on intelligent evolution is New Scientist cover story
Our Research Groups and Centres most closely associated with artificial intelligence include:
Meet some of our leading academics working in artificial intelligence
Professor Dame Wendy Hall
Dame Wendy led a major UK government review on how to capitalise on the country’s status as a world-leader in the science underpinning AI technology.
Professor Tim Norman
Tim Heads the Agents, Interaction and Complexity Research Group. He is an expert in artificial intelligence, logic and automated reasoning, with applications in healthcare, intelligence analysis, security and IoT.
Dr Gopal Ramchurn
An Associate Professor, Gopal has led, or been part of, major research projects including the ORCHID programme within which he developed applications of Human-Agent Collectives.
Professor Mark Nixon
Head of the Vision, Learning and Control Research Group, Mark's interests are in image processing and computer vision and he is a pioneer of gait biometrics.
Professor Mahesan Niranjan
Niranjan is researching clinical data analysis, using machine learning, in fields such as cancer care. His research interests are in machine learning, signal processing and computational biology.
Dr Richard Watson
Richard Watson is an Associate Professor working in evolutionary computing. His research showing that evolution is able to learn from previous experience has been published in New Scientist.
Dr Sebastian Stein
Seb works on mechanism design and incentive engineering for smart grid and crowdsourcing applications. With Dr Enrico Gerding he led the research behind the Leading the Charge article (above).
Dr Long Tran-Thanh
Long Tran-Thanh works on projects which seek to advance the state of the art in many areas of artificial intelligence, including machine learning, game theory and decision making theory.
Studying artificial intelligence
Our range of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees are helping to develop the next generation of experts in artificial intelligence. Recent MSc projects include skin cancer detection using machine learning and computer vision, deep learning for visual recognition of satellite imagery and real-time epilepsy prediction from brain signal analysis.
"ECS has great research staff, advanced experimental facilities, and I had such a good supervisor that I decided to stay here to do my PhD in Computer Science"
Jia Bi, MSc Artificial IntelligenceAshley Robinson, Electronic Engineering with Artificial Intelligence
Ashley Robinson graduated with an MEng in Electronic Engineering with Artificial Intelligence. Here he talks about being an ECS student, his experience at the University of Southampton and his future career plans
Read more about Ashley and his new careerResponse to House of Lords call for evidence on Artificial Intelligence
"There is a broad range of sectors that stand to benefit from the development and use of artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence technologies are best employed in conjunction with, and in support of human decision making." Professor Tim Norman, Head of the Agents, Interaction and Complexity Research Group, has recently responded to the UK's House of Lords' Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence which asked "What are the implications of artificial intelligence?"
Read the full statement from Professor Tim Norman