Prof Gabriela Ochoa has been awarded a Leverhulme grant worth over £400k in collaboration with Prof Jonathan Fieldsend, University of Exeter for a 3 year study: Under-land: Understanding and Visualising Complex Optimisation. This project aims to develop visualisation and analysis methods to illuminate the interaction between optimisation problems and the algorithms employed to solve them. The goal is to visually convey real-world scenarios, including complex representations, multiple competing objectives, constraints, and uncertainty.

This month we were also pleased to hear from Cory Pleasance, one of our undergraduate students, about some work he has been doing with another student Eli Lourens, under the supervision of Dr Paulius Stankaitis. The talk was entitled “Jailbreaking Large Language Models” and the slides can be found here.