Research Grants
The following are current grants held by members of the Centre for Multimodal AI that are of particular relevance:
- Improved Bioacoustic Encoding
Johan Pauwels and Emmanouil Benetos
£25,000 Earth Species Project
17-11-2025 - 17-05-2026 - IGGI CDT Internship with Lord of Games 2025
Diego Perez-Liebana
£4,400 Lord of the Games, Corp.
03-11-2025 - 02-01-2026 - Uncertainty Aware Data Attribution Of Vision-Language Models
Changjae Oh, Shaogang Gong and Ziquan Liu
£326,000 Huawei Technologies Germany
15-10-2025 - 14-10-2027 - EPSRC additional skills funding summer 2025
Akram Alomainy, Iran Roman, Ella Rice, Maria Liakata, Simon Dixon, Giorgio Chianello, Andrew Livingston, Kostas Papafitsoros, Silvia Liverani, Eleni Matechou and Linus Wunderlich
£180,000 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilGrant Summary
01-10-2025 - 31-03-2026 - Holistic, Robust, Effective & Contextual Affect Analysis in-the-wild - PhD Studentship S&E BAND A
Dimitrios Kollias
£201,645 Toyota Motor Europe
01-10-2025 - 31-03-2029 - Identification of patients at risk of OA who will benefit from Agrin treatment
Suzanne Eldridge, Xavier Griffin, Francesco Dell'Accio and Qianni Zhang
£1,186,732 Versus Arthritis
01-10-2025 - 30-09-2029 - Large Language Models for Multimodal Music Understanding and Ethical Audio Generation
Emmanouil Benetos
£40,314 Google LLC
01-10-2025 - 30-09-2027 - Self supervision in Audio Fingerprinting
Emmanouil Benetos
£1,854 Alan Turing Institute, The
01-10-2025 - 30-06-2026 - Steinberg PhD Studentship (S&E Flexible PhD Studentship, 2025/26, Band B)
George Fazekas and Johan Pauwels
£181,004 Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH
01-10-2025 - 30-09-2029 - Knowledge-driven Deep Learning for Music Informatics
George Fazekas
£35,868 Royal Academy of Engineering
15-09-2025 - 14-09-2026 - DSTL EM Hub supplementary project
Akram Alomainy and Anthony Constantinou
£250,000 Defence Science and Technology Lab.-GOV UK
01-09-2025 - 28-02-2027 - Uncrewed ACE2
Simon Lucas
£69,588 Qinetiq
08-08-2025 - 07-02-2026 - Yamaha visiting researcher collaboration: Hidetaka Imamura
Josh Reiss
£19,834 Yamaha Corporation
23-06-2025 - 22-06-2027 - Artificial Neuroscience: metrology and engineering for Deep Learning using Linear Algebra
Mark Sandler and Boris Khoruzhenko
£238,701 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-06-2025 - 30-11-2026 - (QM costs) ARCNET
Qianni Zhang
£15,496 Barts and the London Charity
01-03-2025 - 28-02-2026 - International Collaborative Research (QMUL Korea University)
Changjae Oh
£22,240 Korea University
01-03-2025 - 31-12-2027 - Knowledge transfer partnerships (KTP) 2024 to 2025 Rd2 - AstraZeneca
Greg Slabaugh and Michael Barnes
£338,479 Innovate UK
17-02-2025 - 17-08-2027 - (MDR-RA) Defining Clinical and Molecular Phenotypes of Multi-Drug Resistance in difficult to treat Rheumatoid Arthritis
Felice Rivellese, Shafaq Sikandar, Myles Lewis and Greg Slabaugh
£955,798 EU Commission - Horizon Europe
01-01-2025 - 31-12-2029 - Clinical evaluation of an AI risk prediction and decision support system for early management of injured patients
Karim Brohi and William Marsh
£765,888 DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY (of the United States)
01-01-2025 - 30-06-2027 - Smart EQ: Personalising Audio with Context-aware AI using Listener Preferences and Psychological Factors
George Fazekas and Charalampos Saitis
£172,101 Yamaha Corporation
23-09-2024 - 22-09-2028 - AIM CDT Studentship - Stem 2024
Johan Pauwels and George Fazekas
£33,218 Ashdust UK Ltd
01-09-2024 - 31-08-2026 - Development and Validation of Smartphone-Based Tools for Characterisation of Gait - QMUL-HUMA KTP
Caroline Roney, Zion Tse, James Scales, Greg Slabaugh, Dylan Morrissey, Stuart Miller and Trevor Prior
£227,485 Innovate UK
01-08-2024 - 31-08-2027 - Development of Multi-Modal Foundational Models and AI Accelerators for Zero-shot Intelligent Surveillance System
Changjae Oh and Andrea Cavallaro
£384,699 Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology
01-08-2024 - 31-07-2027 - Project Maestro - AI Musical Analysis Platform
Emmanouil Benetos and Simon Dixon
£166,349 Innovate UK
01-07-2024 - 30-06-2026 - Music Performance Assessment and Feedback (MPAF)
Simon Dixon and Emmanouil Benetos
£250,000 Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music
24-06-2024 - 23-12-2025 - Addressing socio-technical limitations of LLMs for medical and social computing
Maria Liakata, Julia Ive, Matthew Purver, Michael Schlichtkrull, Claude Chelala and Greg Slabaugh
£1,799,332 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-05-2024 - 31-03-2028 - Style classification of podcasts using audio
Emmanouil Benetos
£33,000 Spotify Ltd
01-03-2024 - 28-02-2026 - Sensing the Forest - Let the Forest Speak using the Internet of Things, Acoustic Ecology and Creative AI (Grant Transfer)
Anna Xambo Sedo
£136,153 Arts and Humanities Research Council
29-01-2024 - 30-04-2026 - Reliable AI and Data Optimisation
Georgios Tzimiropoulos
£339,312 EPSRC - EU Scheme
01-01-2024 - 31-12-2026 - AIM CDT Studentship - Sony 2023
George Fazekas
£150,000 SONY EUROPE B.V.
01-10-2023 - 30-11-2027 - AIM CDT Studentship - UMG 2023
George Fazekas
£61,268 Universal Music Group International Limited
01-10-2023 - 31-01-2028 - BBSRC CTP Studentship: Nasim Mohamed Ismail Studentship - MSD
Greg Slabaugh and Emma Tjong
£10,400 Merck
01-10-2023 - 30-09-2027 - EPSRC DTP Case Conversion - Industry Contribution: Senadeera Damith
Greg Slabaugh
£35,668 Remark AI UK Limited
01-10-2023 - 30-09-2027 - Multimodal AI for Multi-omics Data Integration (N. M. Ismail)
Greg Slabaugh
£125,917 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
01-10-2023 - 30-09-2027 - AIM CDT Yamaha Studentship: Modeling Jazz Piano
Simon Dixon
£60,000 Yamaha Corporation
01-04-2023 - 31-01-2027 - Scalable Hybrid Architecture for Wireless Collaborative Federated Learning (SHAFT)
Arumugam Nallanathan and Andrea Cavallaro
£445,428 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-04-2023 - 04-09-2026 - Smart Farm and Agri-environmental Big Data Space (PI: Ebroul lzquierdo)
Ebroul Izquierdo
£305,116 EPSRC - EU Scheme
01-02-2023 - 31-01-2029 - Precision Digital Health, Cardiovascular Devices and Trials
John Whiteley and Greg Slabaugh
£3,519,133 National Institute for Health Research
01-12-2022 - 30-11-2027 - Precision Musculoskeletal Care
John Whiteley, Costantino Pitzalis, Martin Knight, Greg Slabaugh and Xavier Griffin
£3,343,542 National Institute for Health Research
01-12-2022 - 30-11-2027 - IGGI CDT Studentship: Dominik Jeurissen
Diego Perez-Liebana
£48,073 The Creative Assembly Limited
03-10-2022 - 02-07-2027 - CTP Training Grant: William Dee
Greg Slabaugh
£123,829 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
01-10-2022 - 30-09-2026 - Deploying Explainable AI to Reduce Time to Treatment in Trauma
Karim Brohi, Zane Perkins and William Marsh
£94,806 Rosetrees Trust
01-10-2022 - 31-12-2025 - BBSRC AIDD CTP CASE Award: William Dee
Greg Slabaugh
£8,600 EXSCIENTIA LIMITED
26-09-2022 - 25-09-2026 - AIM CDT Studentship: Tyler McIntosh
Simon Dixon
£140,000 DAACI Ltd
19-09-2022 - 31-12-2026 - Smart Solutions Towards Cellular-connected Unmanned Aerial Vehicles System (Autonomy)
Arumugam Nallanathan and Andrea Cavallaro
£409,171 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-04-2022 - 30-09-2026 - Anatomical And Functional Analysis Of The Soft Palate And Associated Musculature
Qianni Zhang
£132,620 BH NHS Barts Health NHS
01-01-2022 - 31-12-2025 - Unrestricted donation to support research activities
Josh Reiss
£26,375 Adobe Inc
01-10-2021 - 30-09-2026 - AIM Studentship Steinberg
George Fazekas
£112,436 Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH
20-09-2021 - 31-01-2026 - Bayesian Network Decision Support in managing low back pain: Development, exploration & feasibility
Adele Hill, Dylan Morrissey and William Marsh
£181,515 Barts and the London Charity
01-09-2021 - 29-05-2026 - Bela/RAEng Senior Research Fellowship in Embedded Music Computing: PhD studentship and consumables
Andrew Mcpherson
£68,000 Augmented Instruments Ltd
01-03-2021 - 28-02-2026 - RAEng Senior Research Fellowship : Embedded music computing
Andrew Mcpherson
£208,774 Royal Academy of Engineering
01-03-2021 - 28-02-2026 - Adobe Research Gift
Shaogang Gong
£55,456 Adobe Inc
01-10-2020 - 28-09-2028 - IGGI2: Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence - CDT Phase 2
Peter Cowling, Laurissa Tokarchuk, Diego Perez-Liebana, Jeremy Gow, Simon Colton, Susanne Binder and Simon Lucas
£3,004,935 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-10-2019 - 30-09-2027 - UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Artificial Intelligence and Music
Simon Dixon, Emmanouil Benetos, Nicholas Bryan-Kinns, Mark Sandler, Andrew Mcpherson, Mathieu Barthet, George Fazekas, Ekaterina Ivanova, Anna Xambo Sedo and Charalampos Saitis
£6,519,934 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-07-2019 - 31-08-2028
