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Annual report 2016–17 Our year 07 Trustees’ and strategic report 69 Financial statements 75 2016 –17 3 Annual repor t 2016 –17 41 Leaders of the future Chair’s foreword Doctoral scheme CEO’s foreword Turing doctoral students Turing enrichment students Data science will Data science masterclasses Part 01 Internships 07 Our year 09 Research 51 Shaping the public conversation change the world. Open for business What is data science? Faculty Fellows Turing Lectures Early career researchers Data debates Software Engineers and Data Scientists Video library Scientific Advisory Board Workshops, seminars and events Visiting Researchers Interest groups: — Data ethics 63 Looking ahead — Blockchain Research projects: Afterword from Alan Wilson — Artificial intelligence for data analytics — Co-designing algorithms Part 02 and computer architecture 69 Trustees’ and strategic report — Security in the cloud — Better data for better decisions Part 03 75 Financial statements 31 Collaboration Strategic partners — Lloyd’s Register Foundation — Intel — UK defence and security — HSBC Partnerships and collaboration — British Library — Microsoft — Data Study Groups — Winton Labs — Office for National Statistics Chair’s foreword CEO’s foreword It has been a landmark year for We operate in a time of political uncertainty. I joined the Institute as a Faculty Fellow We already have the beginnings The Alan Turing Institute. The Institute has an opportunity to make in July of last year and from the 1 October, of programmes in the first four of these, a real difference to post-Brexit Britain. I have been privileged to be the CEO. we are actively developing the other We have moved from start-up to full Through our applied research we will I watched the physical creation of the two and we will develop new themes operations and are already generating make a substantive contribution to the Institute in my early months and from — including those that are cross-cutting impact, thanks to the efforts of our UK economy and generate new services, October, a considerable, almost such as data ethics. excellent faculty of academics, our products and jobs. Our world-class instantaneous, research base has been business team and the support of our research will keep the UK at the forefront established through our Faculty Fellows, I think we can be proud of what we founding members and partners. of data science and will act as a magnet Research Fellows, Software Engineers have achieved in a start-up year and for international talent. We will train and doctoral students. There is a buzz my thanks go to the Board, the business We have been fortunate to attract great the next generation of data science about the place that has enabled us team, the connected research community talent to work with us and I am extremely leaders. In a global economy tackling to launch research projects and interest and our partners for getting us to this grateful to Andrew Blake for leading the the impact of artificial intelligence, groups and to establish programmes point. We relish the chance to rise to Institute through its start-up and to Alan we will provide a trusted voice on new with our four strategic partners. We have the challenges that lie ahead. Wilson, who joined us as CEO in October data-driven technologies. built new partnerships, for example with 2016 and to all our executive and academic the British Library, Microsoft and the Office colleagues. I would also like to thank I look forward to working with the for National Statistics and many others my Board colleagues, who have been remarkable team at the Institute to build are the subject of active conversations. unstinting in the time they have given on the foundations established so far Alan Wilson/ to the Institute and in particular Julie and to make 2017/18 another year of We have developed a new strategic plan Institute CEO Maxton, Executive Director of the Royal great achievement. which provides the basis for expanding Society and Wendy Tan White, General our fellowships, our universities’ network Partner at Entrepreneur First, who joined and our research funding base. Within our Board of Trustees in November 2016. this, our research strategy is critical. Its further development is an exciting Investment in artificial intelligence and Howard Covington/ challenge. We are combining a wide range data science research will be critical to Institute Chair of disciplinary contributions to data science national prosperity for the foreseeable into a new multidisciplinary coalition. future. The last decade saw the world wake We are functioning from end-to-end: from up to the power and value of its data and data wrangling through developing and this decade is focused on developing the deploying a rich data analytics toolkit right algorithms to help data owners to in a range of applications domains. organise, understand and exploit it. We can make potentially game-changing contributions along this spectrum: making This cannot be achieved without richer and bigger data sets available for powerful analytical tools, privacy- analysis; developing algorithms and models preserving technology, enhanced which will tackle challenges such as high computer processing and appropriate dimensionality; and making transformative considerations of ethics, fairness discoveries in domains such as data- and transparency. These are all areas centric engineering, computing technology, in which the Institute has formidable defence and security, finance, cities expertise and we intend to use this and health. knowledge to have a transformative effect on the UK economic and scientific landscape. Howard is a graduate His second career is in He is vice-chair Sir Alan Wilson FBA His research field He has a particular interest of St John’s College, promoting mathematical of ClientEarth, an FAcSS FRS is CEO of The covers many aspects of in interdisciplinarity and Cambridge. He has a double sciences and action to environmental law Alan Turing Institute and mathematical modelling published Knowledge first in theoretical physics reduce climate change. firm, and an adviser Professor of Urban and of cities and the use of power in 2010; he writes and a distinction in to Preventable Surprises, Regional Systems in the these models in planning. the quaestio blog: quaestio. post-graduate maths. He has been a trustee a think-tank. He has Centre for Advanced His models have been blogweb.casa.ucl.ac.uk of the Science Museum, written on the response Spatial Analysis at University widely used in areas such and was knighted in 2001. His first career was in is chair of the Isaac Newton of the investment industry College London. He is as transport planning, the City as an investment Institute for Mathematical to climate change for Chair of the Home Office demography and banker and asset manager. Sciences, the UK’s national the Wall Street Journal, Science Advisory Council. economic modelling. He became a director maths research institute the Financial Times of SG Warburg and then at Cambridge, and is and Nature. He is a Cambridge He has published over European chief executive the inaugural chair of Mathematics graduate 200 papers and his recent of Wasserstein Perella, The Alan Turing Institute. and began his research books include The science a U.S. investment bank. career in elementary of cities and regions (2012), He co-founded New Star particle physics at the his five volume Urban Asset Management and Rutherford Laboratory. modelling (2012, edited), was its chief executive Explorations in urban and until it was sold to He turned to the social regional dynamics (2015, Henderson in 2009. sciences, working on cities, with Joel Dearden), Global In 2014, he cofounded with posts in Oxford and dynamics (2016, edited) Greenrock Homes, London before becoming and Geo-mathematical a property developer. Professor of Urban modelling (2016, edited). and Regional Geography in Leeds in 1970. 4 The Alan Turing Institute Annual report 2016–17 5 The Alan Turing Institute is the national Our research institute for data science, headquartered The Alan Turing Institute is interested at the British Library. in research which tackles the big challenges in data science with lasting Five founding universities — Cambridge, effects for science, the economy Part 01 Edinburgh, Oxford, UCL and Warwick — and the world we live in. and the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council created The We apply our data science research Alan Turing Institute in 2015 in order to to real-world problems, working with answer a national need for investment partners in industry, government Our year in data science research. and the third sector. Our mission Our mission is to make great leaps in data science research in order to change the world for the better. Research excellence is the foundation of the Institute: the sharpest minds from the data science community investigating the hardest questions. We work with integrity and dedication. Our researchers collaborate across disciplines to generate impact, both through theoretical development and application to real-world problems. We are fueled by the desire to innovate and add value. Data science will change the world. We are pioneers; training the next generation of data science leaders, shaping the public conversation, and pushing the boundaries of this new science for the public good. 6 The Alan Turing Institute Annual report 2016–17 7 Research 8 The Alan Turing Institute Annual report 2016–17/ Our year 9 We have had an exceptional first year of research at The Alan Turing Institute. We published our strategic priority areas for research, spanning financial services, health and well-being, urban analytics, defence and security, technology and engineering. We recruited more than 150 talented researchers from our five founding universities and beyond. And six months into our first academic year, collaborations and projects are being formed around some key challenges in data science. Andrew Blake/ Research Director Professor Andrew Blake Before joining Microsoft Andrew Blake/ is Research Director Andrew trained in Research Director at The Alan Turing mathematics and electrical Institute.