{"id":9,"date":"2025-10-16T12:23:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dais.stir.ac.uk\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2025-10-16T12:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:30:10","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dais.stir.ac.uk\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<strong>Data science And Intelligent Systems (DAIS)<\/strong>&nbsp;Research Group are a group of academics, researchers and PhD students within the Division of Computing Science and Mathematics at the University of Stirling. We are interested in the&nbsp;<strong>development, theory, and application of data-driven methods to understand, model and optimise the world<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Data is all around us, and humanity generates over 2 quintillion bytes (that\u2019s a 2 followed by 18 zeroes) of new data every day. Cutting-edge techniques are able to make sense of this data and explore it for the greater good. DAIS researchers have embraced data to:&nbsp;<strong>inform<\/strong>&nbsp;healthcare decisions through modern statistical analysis;&nbsp;<strong>assist<\/strong>&nbsp;those with impairments communicate, using machine learning algorithms to spot c at the momenomplex patterns in sound and brain patterns;&nbsp;<strong>predict<\/strong>&nbsp;outcomes of complex systems, with intelligent models that explain their decisions so that they can be trusted;&nbsp;<strong>perceive<\/strong>&nbsp;the world through computer vision to assist with sight loss and monitor our environment from space;&nbsp;<strong>schedule<\/strong>&nbsp;planes to arrive on time and&nbsp;<strong>design<\/strong>&nbsp;buildings to be more comfortable and energy efficient through advanced optimisation methods; and&nbsp;<strong>understand<\/strong>&nbsp;how all these techniques work and fit together using novel visualisations methods. These are just some of the areas where our group is advancing knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are always happy to talk to companies and other academics about how we might work together. In the first instance please contact Dr Sandy Brownlee (alexander.brownlee@stir.ac.uk), DAIS group leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">News<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list has-dates has-author wp-block-latest-posts is-layout-flow wp-block-latest-posts-is-layout-flow\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/dais.stir.ac.uk\/?p=64\">Publications and Talks<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Sandy Brownlee<\/div><time datetime=\"2026-10-28T15:56:28+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">October 28, 2026<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Dr Hazrat Ali has had several publications recentlym and an invited talk: A paper titled \u2018Foundation Models in Biomedical Imaging: Turning Hype into Reality\u2019 published in the prestigious Nature Biomedical Engineering. The paper presents REAL-FM framework for assessment of foundation models in biomedical imaging. https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41551-026-01762-z A paper presentation \u2018Fixing the Background: Segmentation-Guided Feature Refinement for<p><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/dais.stir.ac.uk\/?p=64\" aria-label=\"Publications and Talks Read full post\">Read full post<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/dais.stir.ac.uk\/?p=66\">PhD completion<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Sandy Brownlee<\/div><time datetime=\"2026-09-09T15:56:00+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 9, 2026<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Congratulations to Dr Giancarlo Catalano on passing his viva! His thesis is entitled Explaining solutions for decision support via Partial Solutions. Thanks are due to BT Group and The Data Lab &#8211; Innovation Centre for funding the project and hugely valuable input beyond that.<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/dais.stir.ac.uk\/?p=60\">Recent publications<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Sandy Brownlee<\/div><time datetime=\"2026-08-17T14:35:45+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">August 17, 2026<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Various group members have had publications accepted in recent months:<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/dais.stir.ac.uk\/?p=57\">Special session on Multimodal Generative AI in Healthcare<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Sandy Brownlee<\/div><time datetime=\"2026-02-23T09:30:38+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">February 23, 2026<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Dr Hazrat Ali is organising a special session at the International Conference on AI in Healthcare, which takes place at Imperial College London on 26-29 August 2026. More details about the session can be found at https:\/\/aiih.cc\/special-session-multimodal-generative-ai-in-healthcare\/ .<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/dais.stir.ac.uk\/?p=56\">PHAWM publicity<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Sandy Brownlee<\/div><time datetime=\"2026-02-19T16:55:44+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">February 19, 2026<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">The PHAWM project, with Stirling&#8217;s contribution coming from Leonardo Bezerra, Sandy Brownlee, and Penny Johnston, reached a major milestone this week with the launch of the PHAWM workbench and methology for paticipatory auditing of AI systems. Penny in particular has put in a huge amount of work to the workbench implementation. This has been broadly<p><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/dais.stir.ac.uk\/?p=56\" aria-label=\"PHAWM publicity Read full post\">Read full post<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Data science And Intelligent Systems (DAIS)&nbsp;Research Group are a group of academics, researchers and PhD students within the Division of Computing Science and Mathematics at the University of Stirling. We are interested in the&nbsp;development, theory, and application of data-driven methods to understand, model and optimise the world. Data is all around us, and humanity generates<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/dais.stir.ac.uk\/\" aria-label=\"About Read full post\">Read full post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dais.stir.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dais.stir.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dais.stir.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dais.stir.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dais.stir.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dais.stir.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dais.stir.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}