Human-Centred Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, MSc

Program Overview

This human-centered computational science program focuses on leveraging human potential to drive innovation in big data and AI. Students engage in a major project and participate in skill-enhancing activities, forming a close-knit cohort and learning diverse perspectives to amplify human potential. The program emphasizes responsible innovation and tackles real-world issues that transform society and the economy.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The program focuses on human-centered computational science, tackling real-world issues that transform society and the economy. It emphasizes human potential, needs, desires, and cares, leveraging these motivations to drive innovation. Students undertake a major project in this area and may also participate in skill-enhancing activities like sandpits, retreats, and focused training events. They form a close-knit cohort and learn human-centered methods grounded in diverse perspectives, using these to amplify and enhance human potential in big data and AI. Specific topics may include law, healthcare, management, or engineering.

Outline:

• Year 1
• Compulsory Modules (15 credits each):
• Designing-in Trust, Understanding, and Negotiation
• Human-Centered Perspectives and Methods
• Abuses, Biases, and Blessings of Data
• Optional Computational Core and Challenging Context Modules (45 credits Minimum):
• Critical Systems
• IT-Security: Cryptography and Network Security
• Mathematical Skills for Data Scientists
• Engineering Technology, Innovation, and Application
• Smart Manufacturing
• Partial Differential Equations
• Markov Processes and Applications
• Biomathematics
• Foundations of Management
• Scientific Computing and Health Care
• Health Data Visualisation
• Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, and Smart Contracts
• Advanced Topics: Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security
• Hardware and Devices
• Artificial Intelligence and Law
• Machine Learning
• Numerical Analysis
• Enterprise, Innovation, and Intellectual Property
• Innovation Management
• Artificial Intelligence - Case Study Analysis
• Artificial Intelligence - Principles and Concepts
• Machine Learning in Healthcare
• Optional Modules (30 credits Maximum):
• Big Data and Machine Learning
• Data Visualization
• Critical Systems
• IT-Security: Cryptography and Network Security
• Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, and Smart Contracts
• Advanced Topics: Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security
• Hardware and Devices
• Year 2
• Human-Centered Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Dissertation (60 credits)

Assessment:

A combination of written or online examinations, individual and group courseworks, and a major independent project in the final part of the course.

Teaching:

• Methods: Lectures, seminars, laboratory work, and tutorials
• Faculty: Internationally-renowned lecturers passionate about research and shaping the world
• Unique Approaches: Sandpits, retreats, training activities, side projects, and responsible innovation exploration and promotion in all work

Tuition Fees and Payment Information:

UK International September 2023 £ 10,350 £ 20,100 September 2024 £ 10,850 £ 21,100 Tuition fees for years of study after your first year are subject to an increase of 3%.