The Hartree Centre
Andrew Gargett AI team lead | STFC Hartree Centre Our mission
Transforming UK industry by accelerating the adoption of high performance computing, big data and cognitive technologies. Our platforms
Intel platforms Accelerated & emerging tech Bull Sequana X1000 Maxeler FPGA system Lenovo NeX tScale | 8,192 cores ARM 64-bit platform
Lenovo System x iDataPlex system | 2048 cores Clustervision novel cooling demonstrator Intel Xeon Phi | Knight's Corner IBM big data analytics cluster | 288TB
IBM data centric platforms IBM Power8 + NVL ink + Tesla P100 IBM Power8 + Nvidia K80 Our people
− Engineers − Chemists − Software − Life Scientists Developers − Mathematicians − Data Scientists Project examples
• Engineering & Manufacturing – Vehicle Design & Testing – Consumer Electronics Design – Consumer Packaged Goods Products and Packaging • Environment – Weather modeling • Life Sciences – Genomics for better crop yields – Disease mapping • Energy – Advanced Battery Cell Design – Efficient Well Head Oil extraction • Financial Services – Risk Management – Service Modelling • Transport – Network simulation Case study | Building the cognitive hospital Collaborative R&D
Transforming the patient experience using cognitive technology and data analytics
“Helping our patients and their families prepare properly for coming into hospital will really reduce their anxiety and could mean they spend more meaningful time with doctors so we are able to get them better faster.”
− Iain Hennessey, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital LCR 4.0: CiiVSOFT
CiiVSOFT build software tools which automate recruiting tasks, save costs, time and improve the efficiency of recruitment processes.
Problem : Wanted to explore the potential of using social media analytics to optimise matching candidates to roles.
Solution : Hartree Centre developed a working prototype application that integrates social media data into the candidate selection pipeline. Uses IBM Watson personality insights to profile employees and candidates to assess suitability. Hartree Centre AI team
• Combining NLP and ML to facilitate the engineering of cutting edge knowledge resources • Examples of current projects: • Information extraction pipelines • Re-implementing standard NLP techniques within Big Data setting • NLP for interactive machine learning • Mapping and merging knowledge bases A bit about myself
− Initial studies, University of Western Australia Started out in Engineering, then discovered Linguistics – ended up with a Masters in Linguistics, combined with Computer Science − PhD, Kings College London Formal and computational linguistics − Postgraduate period • Postdoc in Natural Language Generation & AI [Germany] • Asst. Prof. teaching Phonetics, Lang. Testing, Natural Language Processing [UAEU] − Marie Curie Senior Researcher, University of Birmingham Generating and understanding metaphor in natural language, using AI and data driven approaches − Research Scientist, Hartree Centre, STFC AI team lead Thank you Andrew Gargett [email protected]