Congratulations to WMG Professor of Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing, Kerry Kirwan, who has been appointed as the new Trustee/Founder Director of The Alan Turing Institute.

Professor Kirwan said: “I’m delighted to join the board of trustees of the Turing Institute which is a British flagship for data and artificial intelligence that Warwick helped to found. The breadth, depth and real world relevance of the work that the Institution and its community carries out is amazing and, at these challenging times, critically important to the UK and the wider world – I’m really excited to be able to support them.”

The Alan Turing Institute is a national body championing data science and artificial intelligence research. It was created by five founding universities - Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, UCL and the University of Warwick plus the EPSRC, with a further eight new universities – Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Queen Mary University of London, Birmingham, Exeter, Bristol, and Southampton – joining in 2018.

Following the Institute’s university expansion and the growth of its research programmes and partners, the Institute now counts over 400 researchers in its community. This includes Turing Fellows (the largest group, made up of senior academics spending a portion of their time at the Institute), Turing Research Fellows (independent researchers employed by a partner university and based at the Institute), Doctoral Students (full time or spending an ‘enrichment’ period at the Institute) and visiting researchers from academia, business and government.

Three WMG Professors are currently part of the prestigious line-up of expert Fellows. These are

Professor Carsten Maple, Professor of Data Science Giovanni Montana, and Professor of Marketing and Service Systems Irene Ng.

You can find out more about The Alan Turing Institute here.