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Professor Siraj Shaikh, from the Computer Science Department, will work alongside Innovate UK, Digital Catapult, The Hartree Centre, and the British Standards Institution to provide independent scientific advice, guidance, and mentoring to organisations seeking to adopt AI solutions or develop their capability and capacity in AI. Independent Scientific Advisor (ISA) within the Innovate UK BridgeAI programme at The Alan Turing Institute. A Swansea University expert has been appointed as an
As a Professor in Systems Security and Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of CyberOwl, providing risk analytics and security monitoring for the maritime sector, Professor Shaikh has years of scientific and industrial expertise in the cybersecurity and transport domains, with an emphasis on engineering safe and secure systems. Organisations selected for ISA support will have specific complex challenges which are often not easily addressed by training courses. As part of his new role, Professor Shaikh will help organisations overcome these barriers and enhance their AI adoption journey. The project ‘Precision Glycol-oligomers as Heteromultivalent Pandemic influenza Virus Blockers’ has been awarded funding worth €1.8m from the Novo Nordisk Foundation to support the development of pandemic influenza A virus blockers. The three-year project is an interdisciplinary consortium being led by the Freie Universität Berlin, and also includes Aarhus University and Imperial College London.
Swansea University is a partner in a new international collaboration to develop better ways to stop pandemic influenza and safeguard global health.
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