Research projects
The Centre is undertaking a number of ongoing research projects funded by a broad range of institutions.
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Duration of award- start-finish date (or application submission date) |
Awarding body, amount and R-code |
Project title |
PI and co-applicants |
|---|---|---|---|
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10/2022 – 09/2027 |
Innovate Hong Kong - £225,000 |
AI-powered Financial Technology |
Jian-Bo Yang (PI, 20% FTE) |
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04/2022 – 10/2023 |
UK Technology Strategy Board - CR&D, £179,425.38 |
RepAdvisor |
Jian-Bo Yang (PI, 20% FTE), Dong-Ling Xu (CI, 10% FTE) |
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01/2020 – 05/2022 |
UK Technology Strategy Board - CR&D, £318,625 |
Ai Claims Handler |
Jian-Bo Yang (PI, 10% FTE), Dong-Ling Xu (CI, 10% FTE) |
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06/2022 – 10/2022 |
Lord Alliance Strategic Fund (£21,000) |
LA Follow-on DART |
Jian-Bo Yang (PI); Dong-Ling Xu, Yu-Wang Chen, Richard Allmendinger, Pradyumn Shukla (CIs); |
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09/2020 – 08/2025 |
ESRC, (£15,794,117.02 with 8% for DCSRC – 4% for Jian-Bo Yang and 4% for Richard Allmendinger) |
UKRI Productivity Institute |
Jian-Bo Yang (CI, 10% FTE), Richard Allmendinger (CI, 10% FTE) |
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01/2021 – 12/2025 |
Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, ¥3,000,000 ≈ £333,333) |
The Methodologies of Traceability and Profit Allocation for Agri-food Supply Chain based on Internet of Things and Blockchain |
Xiangpei Hu of Zhejiang University, China (PI), Jian-Bo Yang (C-PI) |
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01/2022 – 12/2024 |
HK Research Grant Council (HK$504,047 ≈ £50,000), |
Developing a collision risk assessment system for heterogeneous ships |
TL Yip of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PI), Jian-Bo Yang (CI) |
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01/2018 – 12/2021 |
NSFC and Zhejiang Province Joint Fund, |
Information fusion methods for condition monitoring and fault diagnosis of marine electric propulsion systems |
Xiaobin Xu of Hangzhou Dianzi University, China (PI), Jian-Bo Yang (C-PI) |
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05/2019 – 02/2025 |
EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions project, |
ReMESH: research network on emergency resources supply chain |
Dong-Ling Xu (PI, 20% FTE), Jian-Bo Yang (CI, 12% FTE) and Nadia Papamichail (CI, 8% FTE) |
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01/2021 – 12/2022 |
National Key Research and Development Project of China, ¥1,620,000 ≈ £178,200 |
Condition Monitoring and Risk Control Technology of Shaftless Propeller for Emergency Rescue Underwater Vehicles |
Ouyang Wo of Wuhan University of Technology (PI), Dong-Ling-Xu (CI) |
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04/2022-03/2024 |
Innovate UK, mKTP. Partner is Jackson-Lees Group (£407,243) |
Delivering AI powered personalised legal services using behavioural psychology profiling |
Nadia Papamichail (Joint PI), Karen Niven (Joint PI), Riza Batista-Navarro (CI), David Hughes (CI), John Haskell (CI) |
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10/2021-02/2024 |
AMBS PhD Targeted Scholarship (£123,000) |
Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Communicating Personalised Disease Risk and Promoting Healthy Behaviours |
Nadia Papamichail (PI, Lead Supervisor), Marzena Nieroda (CI), Ken Muir (CI) |
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08/2022-01/2023 |
Alan Turing Institute (ATI) £26,400 |
Human-AI interaction and cognitive bias – Preparing the healthcare workforce for AI-augmented clinical decision making |
Nadia Papamichail (PI) |
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01/2022 – 09/2022 |
Turing-Manchester Feasibility Project, |
Towards understanding the determinants of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and acceptance in Greater Manchester |
Yu-wang Chen (PI), Angela Spencer (CI), Yang Lu (CI), Ting Wu (CI) |
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01/2022 – 09/2022 |
AMBS Research Recovery Fund, |
The impact of internal migration on influenza vaccination behaviours: analytical evidence from England |
Yu-wang Chen (PI), Luis Ospina-Forero (CI) |
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01/2022 – 12/2024 |
Zhejiang Natural Science Foundation, |
Multi-source and dynamic information fusion to support clinical decision making in ICU |
Guilan Kong of Peking University (PI), Yu-wang Chen (CI) |
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06/2019-03/2022 |
Innovate UK, KTP. |
Connect Software Solutions |
Yu-Wang Chen (PI), Richard Allmendinger (CI) |
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12/2022 – 10/2023 |
UKRI IAA Proof of Concept Scheme + Industry funding from SES Secure Ltd, £40k |
AI/ML to assess source code in Escrow |
Lucas Corderio (PI, 6%), Richard Allmendinger (co-I, 5%), Andre Freitas (co-I, 5%) |
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09/2022-08/2026 |
EPSRC-BAE Systems iCASE PhD studentship £110K |
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Environments |
Richard Allmendinger (PI) |
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01/2021-03/2024 |
Innovate UK, £5.8m of which £2.6m given to UoM |
Soteria - Demonstrating the Security Capabilities of the Morello System in the e-commerce Vertical Industrial Segment |
Mikel Lujan (PI, 20% FTE), Richard Allmendinger (CI, 10% FTE), Lucas Corderio, Konstantin Korovin, Christos-Efthymios Kotselidis, Pierre Olivier, Giles Reger, Elvira Uyarra |
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08/2020-03/2023 |
Innovate UK, KTP. Partner is Forensic Testing Services Ltd, £190K. |
Explainable AI for drug usage prediction |
Richard Allmendinger (PI), Yu-wang Chen (CI) |
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05/2020-04/2023 |
Innovate UK, KTP. Partner is Forensic Testing Services Ltd, £270K (DCSRC received). |
Characterisation of new drugs |
University of Liverpool (PI), Richard Allmendinger (CI, 1%) |
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09/2020-08/2023 |
EPSRC-IBM iCASE PhD studentship £110K |
Bayesian optimization for problems with dynamic resource constraints |
Richard Allmendinger (PI) |
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8/2019-02/2022 |
UMRI - Pump Priming. |
Innovation Lab on Industry 4.0 |
Richard Allmendinger (PI), Nikolay Mehandjiev (CI), Paulo Bartolo (FSE, CI), John Ainsworth (FBMH, CI) |
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12/2019 – 05/2022 |
Innovate UK, KTP. |
Advanced control strategies and machine learning for application in whole-building optimised energy control and management |
Alessandra Parisio (PI), Xiao-Jun Zeng (CI) |
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11/2020-11/2023 |
EU EPPKA2 - Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices (€97,645 ≈£81,371 ) |
Erasmus+ programme – Training on IoT |
Xiao-Jun Zeng (PI), John Keane (CI) |
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08/2022 – 02/2025 |
UKRI IAA Proof of Concept Scheme + Industry funding from KultraLab Ltd, £54k |
SMARTER: Assessment and Design of a Behavioural Change Framework at the Workplace |
Markel Vigo (PI), Xiao-Jun Zeng (CI), John Keane (CI) |
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09/2021 -03/2024 |
Innovate UK, KTP. Partner is Oxford Engineering Ltd, £254,369. |
To develop, embed and exploit advanced smart manufacturing and data-driven machine learning techniques to deliver automated manufacturing process planning |
Charlie Wang (PI), Xiao-Jun Zeng (CI) and Suzanne Embury (CI) |
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04/2022 – 12/22 |
EPSRC IAA |
SMARTER: Assessment and Design of a Behavioural Change Framework at the Workplace |
Markel Vigo (PI), Xiao-jun Zeng (CI), John Keane (CI) |
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06/2019-12/2021 |
Research and Innovation Division (R&I), Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Charity – Data Driven Healthcare Funding Call |
AI in the Management of Childhood Hypoglycemia (AM-CHI) |
Indi Banerje (PI, FBMH), John Keane (CI) et al. |
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06/2019-12/2021 |
Research and Innovation Division (R&I), Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Charity – Data Driven Healthcare Funding Call |
A Precision Medicine Approach to Prognosticate Hearing Loss Associated with Enlarged Vestibular |
Iain Bruce (PI, FBMH), John Keane (CI) et al. |
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08/2022 – 05/2023 |
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), £6,795 |
Machine-trained seed marketing tool for African SMEs |
Dr Ali Hassanzadeh (PI) |
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01/2022 – 06/2022 |
AMBS Research Support Fund, |
Development of an explainable extreme data-driven decision analysis framework |
Ting Wu (PI), Dong-ling Xu (CI) |