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Miscellaneous Artificial Intelligence Projects
In January 2023, I joined the University of Hull as a lecturer (assistant professor) at the Centre of Excellence for Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Modelling. Our MSc degree programmes in artificial intelligence include a dissertation project. Throughout the academic year, I propose and/or supervise these projects. Sometimes, our students design their own projects. Sometimes, we collaborate with external partners.
In the summer trimester of 2023, I supervised 14 projects, including collaborative projects with the Academic Vascular Surgical Unit (AVSU) of Hull Royal Infirmary, a tertiary teaching hospital run by an NHS hospital trust. Enoch Appiah built an image processing pipeline and a CNN-LSTM model to digitise handwritten clinical notes. He won the Best MSc Research Project Prize. Folakemi Fatiregun built an AI system to allocate hospital beds. Partly on the strength of her impressive dissertation, she secured a full-time position as an information analyst at the same NHS trust.
In the autumn trimester of 2023, I supervised 12 projects. Mustabshira Zia built an automatic speech recognition system for dysarthric people. Esther Chukwuezi experimented with diverse dimensionality reduction techniques to optimise risk prediction based on cardiopulmonary exercise testing data about people with heart failure. Shaon Biswas compared the platelet proteomes of 23 diabetic (type 2) patients and 24 controls.
In the summer trimester of 2024, I supervised three projects, including two collaborative projects with Spencer Group, a civil engineering company in Hull. Within the framework of retrieval-augmented generation, Duy Thanh Do used the company's database of emails and documents to optimise the outputs of large language models, giving them the ability to produce summaries of project milestones. Working with the same database, Olalekan Akindele used knowledge graphs to enhance retrieval-augmented generation, turning large language models into chatbots. Olalekan won the Best MSc Research Project Prize.
In the autumn trimester of 2024, I supervised two projects. Kevin Nwankwo built a generative adversarial network to design football players for the football management simulation video game Football Manager 2023.
In the autumn trimester of 2025, I supervised 10 projects, including collaborative projects with Lampada Digital Solutions. Thomas Cockerline used physics-informed neural networks to model rocket ascent. Within AutoGen, Emmanuel Omonbude used AI agents powered by large language models to simulate a linguistically unequal classroom. Abiodun Kolade built a team of virtual scientists (AI agents) to reproduce a cancer modelling study. Habib Rasheed built generative models to synthesise images of blood platelets and clots. Imielewor Aigbodioh and Oluwafikunmi Eshilokun developed a voice-enabled small language model assistant for firefighters. It could be embedded in mobile data terminals capable of operating offline. Aadesh Mudvari developed an AI application to locate regions of water in images. It is based on YOLO models and other computer vision tools. Habib and Aadesh jointly won the Best MSc Research Project Prize.
