SFI Centre for Research Training in Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays a significant role in the world today. Its impact is transformational and it is disrupting society and industry alike. This centre aims to create an internationally connected and globally recognised centre of excellence for the training of postgraduate students and the up-skilling of industry-based staff in key technical topics in artificial intelligence. The initiative will provide training in areas related to ethics in artificial intelligence and data analytics. The ethical issues raised by autonomous AI systems, to be properly prepared for the AI-enabled world of today, students must exposed to a broad range of AI techniques; capable of viewing AI in the context of more complex software and hardware systems. The proposed Centre for Research Training (CRT) brings together supervisors working across the full spectrum of AI techniques from knowledge representation and reasoning, machine learning, data mining, computer vision, natural language proc...