Artificial Intelligence with a Year in Industry BSc

AI significantly affects people’s lives, and it is encountered in more and more of our daily activities. These include activities such as using smart devices, digital voice assistants, and travel aids, as well as banking online or receiving personalised recommendations about movies to rent. Meanwhile, AI is increasingly reliant on leveraging the widespread availability of (often very large) datasets that encode relationships between data inputs to decision making processes, and the outcome of these processes, so that AI applications can enhance human decision making in a wide variety of everyday tasks (e.g. recommender systems) and specialised tasks (e.g., deciding on legal litigation risks, decisions in business/logistics planning, or decisions based on interpretation of visual data such as diagnostic scans in medicine), as well as AI applications that autonomously make and implement decisions (e.g., robots that need to sense their environment and plan actions). These applications require expertise in a broad range of Artificial Intelligence areas. Our Artificial Intelligence with Year in Industry BSc will allow you to understand the underlying principles of these areas, including: - Foundations of AI (e.g. programming, discrete mathematics, algorithm design) - Data Science and Machine Learning (e.g. natural language processing, human-AI interaction) - Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, and Interactions (e.g. data visualisation, knowledge engineering, formal verification) - Optimisation, Planning and Autonomous Agents (e.g. autonomous robot programming, logic, network optimisation) - Ethics and philosophy of AI (e.g. legal, social, ethical and professional issues in AI and in robotics system development, philosophical work on the impact and on dangers of AI) - AI Engineering (e.g. internet and web systems, cloud-based services, AI security and privacy) It will also provide you with the background knowledge and skills required to become a successful AI professional able to work in a range of exciting roles ranging from big data engineer to robotics engineer. Finding an industry placement will require students to be resourceful and engaged. The Faculty has dedicated placement support who can provide advice and host employer-led events, ensuring you have all the tools to secure the right placement for you. Women in Science Scholarships As part of the faculty's work on diversity & inclusion, we are actively working to support women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics in order to address the current imbalance of women working and studying in these areas. Read more about the Women in Science Initiative here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/nmes/women-in-science, where you can also find out about the Women in Science scholarships offered. Further scholarship opportunities offered to women students passionate about computer science/artificial intelligence can be found here: https://raeng.org.uk/programmes-and-prizes/programmes/uk-grants-and-prizes/support-for-education/amazon-future-engineer-bursary

Key benefits

• 6th in the UK for Computer Science (QS World Rankings by subject 2023)
• You'll interact with world-class experts in many exciting areas of AI, including Safe and Trusted AI, Trusted Autonomous Systems, Distributed AI, and Reasoning and Planning.
• You'll have an option of a year in industry, which will enhance your employability.
• You'll study a wide-range of innovative modules, covering both the theory and practice of modern AI.
• Our central London location is close to top, global AI companies, such as Google and Amazon, and gives unparalleled access to leading scientific societies, including the Chartered Institute for IT (BCS) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).