News and Announcements

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AI Centre engagement with Imperial Frontier AI Lab: Members of the AI Centre attended the launch of the Thomson Reuters–Imperial Frontier AI Research Lab, a new initiative focused on trustworthy AI systems, foundational machine learning, safety, and societal impact. Read more.

RAI for Ukraine collaboration leads to EACL 2026 publication: Members of the AI Research Centre participated in the RAI for Ukraine programme, mentoring three students from Ukrainian Catholic University. The collaboration has led to a publication at EACL 2026. Read more.

Prominent speakers at the AI Centre: The AI Centre has welcomed leading international researchers including Moshe Y. Vardi, Clark Barrett, and Byron Cook, highlighting the Centre’s growing visibility in automated reasoning, formal methods, neurosymbolic AI, and trustworthy AI.

NeuroSymbolic AI and formal reasoning: The AI Centre continues to engage with international developments in neurosymbolic AI, including work connecting LLMs, Lean, automated reasoning, and verified computer science. Read more about CSLib.

Moshe Y. Vardi visits the AI Centre: The AI Centre welcomed Prof. Moshe Y. Vardi, University Professor at Rice University, whose research spans automated reasoning, logic, verification, database theory, machine learning, and the social impact of technology. Read more.

GUARD Project phase two awarded: The second phase of the GUARD Project, funded by The Alan Turing Institute, has been awarded. GUARD brings more than £260k to the Research Centre in AI for research on interoperable and trustworthy knowledge graphs for defence and national security AI. Read more.

Clark Barrett visits the AI Centre: The AI Centre welcomed Prof. Clark Barrett from Stanford University, whose research interests include automated reasoning, SMT, formal verification, AI safety, and AI-assisted verification. Read more.

CEREBRA-AI project announced: The EU-funded project CEREBRA-AI will kick off in September 2027. The Research Centre in AI will contribute expertise in Neuro-Symbolic AI, Knowledge Graphs, Continual Learning, and Natural Language Processing. Read more.

Byron Cook and neurosymbolic AI at Amazon: The AI Centre highlighted recent industrial developments in neurosymbolic AI, including Amazon’s use of automated reasoning in AI systems and robotics. Read more.

Solid Symposium 2026 hosted at City St George’s: The Open Data Institute, in collaboration with the Research Centre in AI, hosted the 4th Solid Symposium at City St George’s, featuring speakers including Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Oshani Seneviratne. Read more.

AI Centre celebrates Sir Tim Berners-Lee visit: City St George’s hosted Sir Tim Berners-Lee as part of Solid Symposium 2026, bringing together academia, industry, government, and the wider research community to explore the next chapter for data on the Web. Read more.

Wallenberg Advanced Scientific Forum 2026: Prof. Artur d’Avila Garcez gave a talk at the Wallenberg Advanced Scientific Forum on Foundations of NeuroSymbolic Artificial Intelligence, held at Rånäs Castle, Stockholm. Read more.

Tech Talks Daily podcast: Prof. Artur d’Avila Garcez joined Tech Talks Daily to discuss why powerful AI systems still struggle to explain their decisions, repeat mistakes, and maintain trust as AI takes on greater responsibility. Listen to the episode.

AI evidence synthesis workshop report published: The AI evidence synthesis workshop report from earlier this year is now available through City St George’s Open Access. Read the report.

AI Centre Seminar: Pedro Giesteria Cotovio will deliver an external seminar.

Christmas Closure Period: The AI Centre will be closed for the holidays. We wish everyone a relaxing festive season and look forward to 2026!

Internal Seminar: Savitha Sam-Abraham will present her work at the AI Centre’s final seminar before the Christmas closure period.

AI Centre Seminar: Prof. Alessandra Russo will give a talk on 8th December, 15:30, Franklin Building R105. Details and invitation to follow.

RC AI Launch Event: Official Launch of the AI Research Centre

RC in AI Meeting and LC: In-person meeting held at R105, City St George’s, with livestream and recording available here. Thanks to all who joined!

AI Centre Seminar: Daniel Faria joins us for an external seminar talk at City St George’s.

AI Centre Seminar: Emanuele Cavalleri, Università degli Studi di Milano, presents his research as part of our external seminar series.

Visitors in the AI Centre: Welcome to Emanuele Cavalleri, Università degli Studi di Milano, who will be visiting us until February. We look forward to exciting collaborations!

New paper: ORSA-T: Multi-View Object-Centric Scene Representation Learning with Slot Attention and Transformer — H. Placek, C. H. T. Child, T. Weyde

New paper: Noise or Nuance: An Investigation Into Useful Information and Filtering For LLM Driven AKBC — Alex Clay, Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, Pranava Madhyastha

New paper: Chart Question Answering from Real-World Analytical Narratives — Maeve Hutchinson, Radu Jianu, Aidan Slingsby, Jo Wood, Pranava Madhyastha

New paper: Bijective BWT based compression schemes — Golnaz Badkobeh, Hideo Bannai, Dominik Köppl

New paper: ** Deep Learning Agents and the Emergence of Compositional Languages: Approaches, Inductive Biases and Measurement** — Nicholas Bailey, Chris Child, Tillman Weyde