The Alan Turing Institute, the National Institute for Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence working with government in securing the people and places of the UK, providing equitable health outcomes for all, and repairing the climate crisis
- Mon 16th Jun 2025
- 19:30-21:00
- Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS and Zoom
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The Alan Turing Institute was established ten years ago and, in this time, it has delivered a number of worlds firsts such as the first 3D printed stainless steel pedestrian bridge, a digital twin of the United Kingdom's air space, digital twins of cardiac systems in patients, as well as the research vessel the Sir David Attenborough. This talk will focus on some of the achievements of the institute and describe the Grand Challenges it has defined to address contemporary societal issues we face globally namely in the Environment and Sustainability, Defence and Security, and Health and Medicine.
Professor Mark Girolami, Chief Scientist, The Alan Turing Institute; RAE Research Chair in Data Centric Engineering, Cambridge University Engineering Department
Mark Girolami is the Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering within the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge where he also holds the Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Data Centric Engineering. Prior to joining the University of Cambridge Professor Girolami held the Chair of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London. He is the Chief Scientist of the Alan Turing Institute, which is the UK national institute for Data Science and AI. Professor Girolami is an elected fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, he was an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow (2007-2012), an EPSRC Established Career Research Fellow (2012-2018), a recipient of a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, and in 2023 was awarded the Guy Medal in Silver by the Royal Statistical Society. He delivered the IMS Medallion Lecture at the Joint Statistical Meeting 2017, and the Bernoulli Society Forum Lecture at the European Meeting of Statisticians 2017. In 2024 and 2025 he was awarded honorary doctoral degrees from the University of Glasgow and the University of the West of Scotland.
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