The Prosperity Partnership brings together University partners with internationally leading expertise in the foundational areas of audio-visual AI and software defined networks together with the BBC’s world-leading creative production expertise.
Team leaders
Professor Adrian Hilton
Academic Principal Investigator, EB/MB Chair, S5 Business Impact Academic LeadDirector of Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), Director of Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI (PAI), University of Surrey.
Professor Graham Thomas
Business Principal Investigator, EB/MB Co-chair, Business Challenge LeadSection Leader, Immersive & Interactive Content, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Professor Nicholas Race
Co-investigatior, CI Lead Lancaster, S4 Intelligent Network Compute Academic LeadProfessor of Networked Systems, School of Computing and Communications at the Lancaster University.
Sarah Hall
AI4ME Project ManagerResearch Project Manager, Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI(PAI), University of Surrey.
Audio-Visual AI — University of Surrey (CVSSP)
Surrey’s CVSSP expertise in audio-visual AI for machine understanding of captured content will allow efficient creation of personalised OBM experience for real-time understanding of general real-world dynamic scenes.
Dr Armin Mustafa
Audio-Visual AI - Academic Lead, S2 Audio-Visual AI Academic LeadCentre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), University of Surrey.
Dr Jean-Yves Guillemaut
S1 User Experience Academic LeadCentre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), University of Surrey.
Dr Philip Jackson
S3 Production Tools Academic LeadCentre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), University of Surrey.
Mrs Elizabeth James
Audio-Visual AICentre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), Director of Strategy for Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI (PAI), University of Surrey.
Dr Marco Volino
Audio-Visual AICentre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), University of Surrey.
Prof. Wenwu Wang
Audio-Visual AICentre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), University of Surrey.
Dr Andrew Rogoyski
S5 Business ImpactDirector of Innovation & Partnerships for Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI (PAI), University of Surrey.
Personalised experience — BBC
Personalised Experiences at Scale: intelligent user-centred media personalisation for enhanced QoE.
Mr Robert Dawes
S2 Audio-Visual AI Business LeadSenior Research Engineer, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Dr Michael Evans
Personalised experienceUX Research Lead, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Dr Maxine Glancy
Personalised experienceLead (HCI) Research Scientist, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Dr Rajiv Ramdhany
S4 Intelligent Network Compute Business LeadProject Engineer, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Margaret Karnaze
S5 Business Impact LeadBusiness Development and Technology Transfer , British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Intelligent network compute — Lancaster
Lancaster University’s expertise in software-defined networking will develop adaptive systems for delivery of personalised experience to millions of people whilst maintaining cost and energy efficiency.
Professor Nicholas Race
Co-investigatior, CI Lead Lancaster, S4 Intelligent Network Compute Academic LeadProfessor of Networked Systems, School of Computing and Communications at the Lancaster University.
Dr Yehia Elkhatib
Intelligent Network ComputeSchool of Computing and Communications at the Lancaster University.
Dr Barry Porter
Intelligent Network ComputeSchool of Computing and Communications at the Lancaster University.
AI4ME alumni
We are grateful for the invaluable contributions of all the experts who have previously worked on AI4ME projects, our AI4ME ‘alumni’.
Dr Chris Baume
S3 Production Tools Business LeadLead Research Engineer, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Mrs Samantha Chadwick
BBC Business ManagerHead of Partnerships, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Dr Adrian Woolard
S5 Business Impact Business LeadHead of Future Experience Technologies, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Dr Jon Francombe
Personalised experienceLead R&D Engineer, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).