Impact stories

Introduction

The Turing works with a range of academic and industry partners on diverse projects. As a relatively new institution, many of our exciting, challenging projects are ongoing, but some are already demonstrating far-reaching real-world impact across sectors. Below is a selection of stories demonstrating the diversity of our research output.

Impact stories

The Turing works with a range of partners with far-reaching real-world impact across sectors

Introduction

Anti-bias test implemented by Amazon

A test for detecting bias in AI systems, created by Turing researchers, has been adopted by Amazon Web Services

Optimising the world’s first underground farm

In the heart of London there is a farm like no other. It’s subterranean, sustainable and energy smart. It also has a digital twin looking out for its every need

Ensuring quality in AI healthcare technologies

A project co-funded by the Turing has developed the first international guidelines for clinical trials involving AI

Helping organisations to explain decisions made with AI

The Turing’s public policy programme and the Information Commissioner’s Office have co-produced a first-of-its-kind guidance document

Bridging the gap between physical and digital

The Turing’s data-centric engineering programme and its collaborators are unlocking insights into the world-first 3D printed steel bridge, using innovative data science techniques and ‘digital twin’ technology

Supporting innovation in the fintech sector

The Turing evaluated the synthetic data used in the Financial Conduct Authority’s Digital Sandbox Pilot

Helping London to navigate lockdown safely

Project Odysseus monitors activity on the streets of London, allowing authorities to make interventions to keep people socially distanced

Turing and Roche: Towards tailor-made lung cancer treatment

The Alan Turing Institute and Roche have been working to develop models that will predict how cancer patients are likely to respond to cutting-edge treatments

Streamlining jet engine design and manufacture

Algorithms developed at the Turing will allow aerospace companies to build engines that waste less fuel and have a lower carbon footprint

A new age of Arctic science discovery

Applying algorithms to the fight against global warming

Working with the NHS in Scotland

Using the latest advances in machine learning and data science to predict emergency hospital admissions in Scotland

Supercharging sustainable development

A bold new approach to development economics, championed by the Turing and the United Nations Development Programme, could boost government-backed sustainable development all over the world

Predicting conflict – a year in advance

Ground-breaking technology developed at The Alan Turing Institute could revolutionise the prediction of global conflict, boosting peacekeeping efforts and saving lives

Putting the AI in air traffic control

The UK’s leading air traffic control provider, NATS, has teamed up with the Turing to explore how the industry can evolve with machine learning

Dynamic forecasting with British Airways

Predicting demand for flights is central to airline business strategy, and enormously complex. In collaboration with British Airways, the Turing has developed novel machine learning techniques to tackle the challenge

Transforming medicine through AI-enabled healthcare

World-leading expertise in healthcare-focused machine learning combined with the world’s largest, high-quality cancer data collection service could lead to a quantum leap in personalised medicine

Changing the culture of data science

The Turing Way is an online handbook – and global community – dedicated to fostering gold-standard reproducible research. It’s a cultural movement with the potential to transform data science

The next step in precision agriculture

Growing enough food for the world’s burgeoning population may require smart farms that can sense their crop conditions and feed themselves on demand, and Turing researchers are developing the technology they’ll need