What if we could build Hypersensory Intelligence – integrated systems of sensing and AI designed to tackle the world’s most critical challenges?
Defined by our Programme Directors (PDs), opportunity spaces are areas we believe are likely to yield breakthroughs.
In Extending Our Perception, we are working to develop Hypersensory Intelligence, where AI is co-designed with novel sensing technologies to directly capture high-dimensional signals from the physical world.
Beliefs
The core beliefs that underpin this opportunity space:
We are under-utilising most sensing modalities when we train AI models → building intelligent systems demands harnessing sensors that extend beyond human intuition to make sense of combinatorial or high-dimensional modalities.
Training on archived data from static sensors will only get us so far → we need dynamic systems that treat perception and cognition as mutually reinforcing and co-evolving components of intelligence.
As we develop Hypersensory Intelligence, symbiotic co-perception will emerge as a new capability class → enabling us to better understand and exploit the evolved biological sensing of humans and other species.
Observations
Some signposts as to why we see this area as important, underserved, and ripe.
Give feedback on this opportunity space
Our next step is to formulate a programme within this opportunity space that will direct funding across research disciplines and institutions toward a focused objective.
In order to ensure we select the right first challenge, we want to hear from you. Complete this form to provide feedback on the opportunity space and inform the development of our programme thesis - we will read anything you send. You can also register interest for our workshops.
Meet the programme team
Our Programme Directors are supported by a core team that provides a blend of operational coordination and highly specialised technical expertise.
Claire Donoghue
Programme Director
Claire has worked in AI for two decades in both academia and industry, delivering solutions across healthcare, materials design, manufacturing, and occupational safety. Previously Senior Director in Data Science and AI at AstraZeneca, and before that at 3M, she is an inventor on 19 patents and holds a PhD in machine learning from Imperial College London.
Mike Farrar
Programme Specialist
Mike is a condensed matter physicist by training and joined ARIA from his postdoc in Oxford, where he conducted research on novel photovoltaics. Prior to this, he was responsible for the set-up of several high volume, thin-film deposition operations across the globe for the world's largest electronics original equipment manufacturers. Mike supports ARIA as an operating partner from Pace.
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