The University of Birmingham has launched Dexter AI Ltd to commercialise game-changing web-based application that extracts analysable datasets from electronic health records across primary and secondary care, claims data, private prescriber records, and other sources.

Keren Zhou, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, College of Engineering and Computing (CEC); Xiaokuan Zhang, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, CEC; Binqian Yin, Professor, Computer Science, CEC, and Songqing Chen, Professor, IEEE Fellow, Computer Science, CEC, received funding for the project: “POSE: Phase I: Tile-Debugger: Enabling Accessible, Flexible, and Insightful Debugging for AI Workloads on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and Accelerators.” 

Jianli Pan, Associate Professor, Information Sciences and Technology, College of Engineering and Computing (CEC), and Md Arafin, Assistant Professor, Cyber Security Engineering, CEC, received funding for a project aimed at modernizing Internet of Things (IoT)/Edge cybersecurity research and curricula. 

This September 13-18, at the 13th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF), 200 young researchers in mathematics and computer science will spend a week of scientific exchange with the laureates of the disciplines’ most prestigious prizes: the Abel Prize, ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, Fields Medal, the Nevanlinna Prize, as well as its continuation, the IMU Abacus Medal. Six of the nine recipients of the fields’ most prestigious prizes awarded in 2026 will be among the 21 laureates taking part. Below are a few highlights of the upcoming program of the HLF as well as a breakdown of how to cover this unique event.