Our Mission is to be a beacon for AI and Data Science research through innovative, interdisciplinary, responsible, and impactful work, supporting sustainable development, and equipping researchers with the skills, tools, and foresight to tackle the challenges of the future.
We will focus on core research themes in the areas of AI for healthcare, the environment and sustainability, and responsible, and explainable AI as well as new, and emerging AI applications to deliver scientific breakthroughs that support the safe, responsible, and impactful applications of AI into the real world.
To deliver our mission, our strategy outlines how we will bring together researchers working across the AI and Data Science remit, working with a variety of organisations from academia, industrial, healthcare, and third-party organisations to facilitate an enriched ecosystem where we can utilise interdisciplinarity as a strength to work across disciplines to deliver impactful, and translational research.
Read the Full Strategy Document: DERI Strategic Plan 2024 -2028 [PDF 712KB]
Our Core Priorities
These priorities will guide DERI to deliver its Mission and will support focusing on:
Priority One: Create a strong sense of identity as an Institute founded on excellence, collaboration, and responsible innovation.
DERI will need a strong foundation to support the delivery of excellent research.
The Institute strives towards embedding itself both internally to Queen Mary, and externally with organisations across the breadth of the AI and Data Science remit, forging key working relationships and implementing mechanisms to support continuous improvement. DERI aims to create an enriched research environment, contributing towards thought leadership, and using its position to advise on, guide, and support national, and international developments in the field.