UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE            
       COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM       
                                                  
                     presents   
					                   
       "Air Pollution and How AI can help fill the gaps"                
                      				                        
            Robin Bradley and Annabel Pan               
                                                  
         (University of Hertfordshire)           
                                                  
                11 November 2020                  
                                                  
                  12:00 - 13:00   
			(NOTE THE ANOMALOUS TIME)                
                                                  
                   Over Zoom          
		 
Abstract

Air Pollution is responsible for an estimated 40,000 premature deaths in the UK per year. Today, Air Pollution monitoring is an EU Directive that every local authority and council need to adhere to. In a capitalist democracy, there has to be a consideration of the economic issues as well as the public health ones and the more ‘responsible’ businesses, council and local authorities have entered into this debate in a rational and constructive way. 

In this webinar Robin Bradley and Annabel Pan, discuss how their University AI team are leveraging AI and machine learning techniques in order to monitor and predict Air Pollution. They will discuss the current trends in Air Pollution monitoring and prediction; how AI and ML models can help with Air quality predictive models and how these models can 'fill the gaps' for industry and local authorities.    
                                            
  
                                              
Biographies:

Robin Bradley

Robin Bradley is Emerging Tech and Data thought leader who has helps define IT, Data and Emerging Tech strategies for large corporations. Robin is a lecturer in AI and Emerging Technology at University of Hertfordshire and a Director of Ceremium, a Data consultancy focusing on user driven value creation. He is also a Fellow of Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.

Robin has worked in industry for over 20 years at IBM, Citi, Cisco and Vodafone. During this time he has shaped Cognitive, Robotics, Blockchain, IT & Data architectures and related roadmaps to deliver value to his clients and companies in the UK, EMEA and APAC. Whilst at IBM Robin worked with clients to formulate AI and Blockchain strategies and user driven value propositions and projects.

Robin is also an entrepreneur and is currently running setting up an UoH supported based Air Pollution AI start up and has managed startup businesses including a Voice AI Startup and a niche Data Consultancy. He is also currently mentoring 20+ AI and Robotics MSc projects, coaching students with their projects in areas including, Visual AI classification, Voice AI, Facial recognition, AI music creation and AI on the Edge.’ 

Annabel Pan

Annabel Pan started her career in financial world more than 10 years ago and has done numerous exciting roles in the world’s largest commodity trading firms, brokerage and banks in different countries before becoming a Data Scientist. She holds 3 degrees in BSc Computer Science, MSc Applicable Mathematics and MBA. She has abundant knowledge of commercial business gained from her previous roles in various international organisations and an award winning business she ran along her full time job. A few years ago she left her bank manager job in its headquarter of the UK’s largest commercial bank to pursue a career in Data Science. She has since worked in a few machine learning projects and would like to use this opportunity to share her experience with many of you.