The Intelligent Earth Centre will train a new generation of PhD students to develop and apply cutting-edge AI technologies to tackle urgent environmental crises.
A brand new Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) will bridge the gap between environmental science and AI to address global environmental challenges. Backed by over £15 million funding, the University of Oxford is establishing the Intelligent Earth Centre, a new CDT that will combine the university’s strengths in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, Big Data, and environmental sciences. Over an initial eight years, The UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in AI for the Environment will train almost 100 PhD students to develop and apply cutting-edge AI technologies to tackle urgent environmental crises.
Intelligent Earth brings together academics from key environmental science and AI departments across Oxford with non-academic partners to train a new generation of DPhil (PhD) students to tackle some of the most pressing environmental issues. The centre uses AI through five closely connected themes: climate; biodiversity; natural hazards; environmental solutions; and core AI research.