Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Intelligence for Automated Investigations for Scientific Discovery Network

Abstract

The Network has run for four very successful years between 2018-2022. Over these four years we created a community of over 1500 people and gained a strong social media presence, especially on twitter. We have funded 7 pilot projects, 15 interns and over 120 students to attend our machine learning summer schools, in addition to providing training to hundreds of other Network members through our Failed it to Nailed it and Skills4Scientists series. We were undeterred by COVID and took our Network activities online, doubling our membership over the summer of 2020 and bringing us a new array of international members where before we had been predominantly UK based, and since the return of physical events, we converted to a hybrid Network bringing together the best of both worlds for a mix of hybrid and virtual activities.
The Network has produced an immense number of resources, including 174 videos for our YouTube Channel and 52 reports across funded projects and events, in addition to supporting the publication of 19 peer reviewed journal and conference papers. The Network has also been heavily involved in other projects including supporting an Ethics for AI working group, and some collaborative projects with the Network of Networks group to run an Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion survey, and to write and compile a very comprehensive resource on how to run a Network which has been distributed to new Networks who were looking for guidance. Overall we feel that this Network has been very successful both in terms of impact and outputs.

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the Network. Section 2 details our membership statistics and growth, different social media and website accounts, and statistics on our events. Section 3 lists our outputs, Section 4 contains impact statements and collated feedback on our funded initiatives, and Section 5 describes our other outputs including our work with the Network of Networks.

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ORCID for Samantha Kanza: orcid.org/0000-0002-4831-9489

ORCID for Jeremy G. Frey: orcid.org/0000-0003-0842-4302

ORCID for Mahesan Niranjan: orcid.org/0000-0001-7021-140X

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