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Meet our team

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.

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.

Personalised experience — BBC

Personalised Experiences at Scale: intelligent user-centred media personalisation for enhanced QoE.

Robert Dawes

Robert Dawes

S2 Audio-Visual AI Business Lead

Michael Evans

Dr Michael Evans

Personalised experience

Maxine Glancy

Dr Maxine Glancy

Personalised experience

Rajiv Ramdhany

Dr Rajiv Ramdhany

S4 Intelligent Network Compute Business Lead

Margaret Karnaze

S5 Business Impact Lead

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.

Nicholas Race

Professor Nicholas Race

Co-investigator, CI Lead Lancaster, S4 Intelligent Network Compute Academic Lead

Yehia Elkhatib

Dr Yehia Elkhatib

Intelligent Network Compute

Barry Porter

Dr Barry Porter

Intelligent Network Compute

AI4ME alumni

We are grateful for the invaluable contributions of all the experts who have previously worked on AI4ME projects, our AI4ME ‘alumni’.

Chris Baume

Dr Chris Baume

S3 Production Tools Business Lead

Samantha Chadwick

Samantha Chadwick

BBC Business Manager

Adrian Woolard

Dr Adrian Woolard

S5 Business Impact Business Lead

Jon Francombe

Dr Jon Francombe

Personalised experience