Research Grants
The following are current grants held by members of the Centre for Multimodal AI that are of particular relevance:
- Advanced AI for Multi-modal Spatial Biology
James Chapple, Greg Slabaugh, Saqib Shamim, Cleo Bishop, Jun Wang, Francesca Ciccarelli, Stuart McDonald, Ines Sequeira, James Timmons, David Leslie, Cedric John, Ahmed M. A. Sayed, Himadri Gupta, Zion Tse and Ginestra Bianconi
£3,066,246 Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
01-10-2026 - 30-09-2032 - COFOUND: Shallow-Depth Sedimentary Core Foundation Model for Ocean and Climate Data Analysis
Cedric John, Xiaoyu Zheng, Heather Ford, Greg Slabaugh and Daqian Shi
£311,727 Natural Environment Research Council
01-10-2026 - 31-03-2028 - Intelligent Systems for Sound Engineering
Josh Reiss
£302,974 Royal Academy of Engineering
01-10-2026 - 30-09-2031 - Learning Multimodal Patient State Trajectories for Dynamic ICU Risk Prediction and Clinical Decision
Muhammad Salman Haleem
£40,314 Google LLC
01-10-2026 - 30-09-2028 - Predicting miscarriage and identifying maternal risk factors with machine learning methods and artificial intelligence
Tina Chowdhury and Greg Slabaugh
£49,615 Tommy's
01-10-2026 - 30-09-2029 - Towards performant audio language models for music understanding
Johan Pauwels
£40,314 Google LLC
01-10-2026 - 30-09-2028 - Multimodal Interaction - computational modelling of human behaviour in conversations
Ioannis Patras
£109,570 Tavus Inc
14-09-2026 - 14-09-2029 - Fine-Grained Assessment and Human-Centred Feedback for AI Music Performance Education
Simon Dixon and Emmanouil Benetos
£220,421 Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music
01-09-2026 - 28-02-2030 - Minifusion: Reimagining Sound Design for Live Instruments
Iran Roman
£34,997 Innovate UK
01-09-2026 - 10-12-2026 - Real World Datasets for Generative Audio Synthesis, Separation, and Machine Understanding
Iran Roman
£98,363 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-09-2026 - 31-08-2027 - Scientific Approaches to Music Style Distinctions: A Case Study Based on Four Chinese Regional Traditions
Simon Dixon
£413,348 British Academy
01-09-2026 - 31-08-2029 - Spatial Hearing Augmentation to Improve Hearing Assistive Technology
Aidan Hogg
£509,888 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-09-2026 - 31-08-2029 - Wearable vascular-access monitor for haemodialysis patients
Lei Su and Qianni Zhang
£1,376,594 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-07-2026 - 30-06-2030 - Intelligent Urban Noise Monitoring
Lin Wang, Emmanouil Benetos and Andrea Cavallaro
£31,974 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-06-2026 - 31-10-2026 - From Prototype to Practice: Evaluating the Real-World Translation of a Hypertension Digital Twin
Anthony Mathur, Ayesha Ahmed, Xu Chen, Greg Slabaugh and Ajay Gupta
£45,380 British Heart Foundation
01-05-2026 - 31-01-2027 - Multimodal Interaction - controlled generation of human behaviour with diffusion models
Ioannis Patras
£109,570 Tavus Inc
01-05-2026 - 30-04-2029 - AI-driven ECG Analysis for Emergency Diagnosis
Anthony Mathur, Greg Slabaugh, Xu Chen and Alireza Yazdi
£71,657 Barts and the London Charity
02-03-2026 - 02-03-2027 - IGGI CDT Internship with Sony 2026
Simon Lucas
£34,000 Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
02-03-2026 - 30-11-2026 - 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 - (QM costs) ARCNET
Qianni Zhang
£996 Barts and the London Charity
01-10-2025 - 31-03-2027 - 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 Arthritis UK
01-10-2025 - 30-09-2029 - Large Language Models for Multimodal Music Understanding and Ethical Audio Generation
Emmanouil Benetos
£80,629 Google LLC
01-10-2025 - 30-09-2027 - 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 - 15-12-2026 - 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 - 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 - 30-11-2027 - 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
Nigel Tai and William Marsh
£741,028 DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY (of the United States)
01-01-2025 - 30-06-2027 - Quantifying input for first and second language speech learning
Kathleen McCarthy and Lin Wang
£110,753 Economic and Social Research Council
01-01-2025 - 31-12-2028 - 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 - 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 - 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 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 - 28-02-2027 - 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 - 31-03-2027 - RAEng Fellowship - Kyrimi
Evangelia Kyrimi
£625,000 Royal Academy of Engineering
06-03-2023 - 18-11-2028 - 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 Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
01-10-2022 - 30-10-2026 - AIM CDT Studentship: Tyler McIntosh
Simon Dixon
£140,000 DAACI Ltd
19-09-2022 - 31-12-2026 - Unrestricted donation to support research activities
Josh Reiss
£26,375 Adobe Inc
01-10-2021 - 30-09-2027 - 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
£6,522,646 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-07-2019 - 31-08-2028