University of Edinburgh Established in 1583 – One of the World’s top 30 Universities* *Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2018

School of Informatics Established in 1998 – One of the World’s top 14 Computer Science Departments *Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2018

University of Edinburgh – academic structure College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine (>2000 staff, 4 Schools) Biomedical Sciences; Clinical Sciences & Community Health; Molecular & Clinical Medicine; Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies. College of Arts Humanities & Social Science (>1400 staff, 11 Schools) Business; Divinity; Economics; Edinburgh College of Art; Education; Health in Social Science; History, Classics & Archaeology; Law; Literatures, Languages & Cultures; Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences; Social & Political Science College of Science & Engineering (>1800 staff, 7 Schools) Biological Sciences; Chemistry; Engineering and Electronics; GeoSciences; Mathematics; Physics; 13,500 staff overall and ~30,000 students per year

What is Informatics? The science of information – how natural and artificial systems process, store and communicate information a fundamental Science underpinning all areas of life Academic, Industrial and Social. encompasses Computer Science, Data Science, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Speech & Language Technology Science of Information Information connects all of us We work with many different types of people not just within the university But with many external organisations across the public, private and third sector

School of Informatics in a nutshell ~400 staff, inc.: ~120 Academic staff ~130 Research staff ~1600 students: ~940 Undergraduates ~370 MSc Students ~300 PhD Students Most research power in the UK Record number of startups & spinouts over the last ten years Dedicated commercialisation team As of 30/05/2018 Source for headcount: http://www.docs.csg.ed.ac.uk/HumanResources/StaffNumbers.htm

… 26% Figures include Postgraduate and Undergraduate students UK - 414 ~ 950 Undergraduates ~ 650 Postgraduates 1640 students registered for this session including students from 82 countries outside the UK (30/05/2018) 26% People’s Republic of China 291 USA 108 Bulgaria 69 India 61 Lithuania 58 Germany 57 Romania 55 Poland 50 Greece 45 Portugal 15 Italy 32 Slovakia 30 Cyprus 25 Republic of Ireland 25 France 20 Hungary 16 Malaysia 13 Spain 37 Estonia 9 Austria 8 Latvia 8 Turkey 8 Canada 7 Indonesia 7 Mexico 7 Netherlands 12 Czech Republic 12 Saudi Arabia 7 Hong Kong 6 Islamic Republic of Iran 6 Singapore 6 Sweden 6 Australia 5 Republic of Korea 5 Pakistan 5 Thailand 6 Figures include Postgraduate and Undergraduate students NB only 25% of our students have a UK passport! 26% of our students are female, cf UK figure: 17% of computer science students are female (30/05/2018) (source: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/11-01- 2018/sfr247-higher-education-student- statistics/subjects) However, only 17% of our UK students are female, i.e. bang on the national average… Egypt 4 Switzerland 4 Taiwan 4 Croatia 3 Finland 3 Russia 5 South Africa 5 Denmark 4 Slovenia 4 Belgium 6 Japan 3 Lebanon 3 Norway 3 Argentina 2 Brazil 2 Colombia 2 Kazakhstan 2 Malta 2 Nepal 2 Nigeria 2 … Trinidad and Tobago 2 Albania 1 Bolivia 1 Chile 1 Cuba 1 Ecuador 1 El Salvador 1 Ethiopia 1 Guyana 1 Ghana 1

School of Informatics Research Institutes ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Intelligent Planning, Proof Planning, Security Engineering, Applied Computational Logic, Knowledge Engineering, Virtual Worlds COMPUTER SCIENCE: Parallel Computing, Micro Architectures, Wireless Protocols & Apps, Iterative Compilation, Self Timed Circuits BRAIN: NeuroInformatics, Machine Learning ROBOTICS: Robotics, Vision Linkages to EPCC who run high performance computing for the UK effectively HECTOR - £130M investment, on top of Ibm Blue Gene and Sun HPx machines Strong interdisciplinary approach can only be attained with scale. THEORY: Databases Languages, Semantics, Complexity & Alg Concurrency & Modelling, S/W Engineering Theory LANGUAGE: Natural Language Processing, Multi Modal Interaction, Information Extraction, Speech Synthesis 7

philosophy, psychology, language sciences Linkages engineering mathematics geosciences medicine physics philosophy, psychology, language sciences The Forum also provides a focus for our external interactions, and we have active research links with all Colleges. In fact, we have active research links with most Schools in the University. Here are some (there's not room for them all) of the schools with which we have joint projects right now. social and political sciences law college of art education

Three Centres for Doctoral Training Plus 5 bids at ‘full application’ stage of 2018 CDT competition: - Cyber Security & Privacy - AI & Data Science - Biomedical AI - NLP - Robotics & Autonomous Systems

Some of our current CDT partners Robotics & Autonomous Systems: Data Science Institute names have hyperlinks Pervasive Parallelism

Edinburgh & SE Scotland City Region Deal £1.1bn funding from UK and Scottish Governments Includes £300m capital budget re innovation 10 year programme “Data Driven Innovation” invented here University – City – Community engagement 1 major new institute per college for University of Edinburgh Usher Institute: (CMVM) data-driven health research, medical informatics and population health sciences, within Bio-Quarter Edinburgh Futures Institute: (CAHSS) social science, art & humanities meets data science to tackle societal issues with fintech, creative industries, local government etc. Bayes Centre: (CSE) technology which powers the interaction of people, data and systems Usher Inst. Edinburgh Futures Inst. Bayes Centre 11

School of Informatics …and more! opens Q3 2018 Appleton Tower Informatics Forum …and more! opens Q3 2018