In March, we expanded into a larger, upgraded office at the Culham Innovation Centre, the Oxfordshire headquarters of the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA). Culham has been announced as the first of the UK government’s proposed AI Growth Zones (AIGZs), part of the the UK AI Opportunities Action Plan to accelerate AI infrastructure development, investment and innovation.
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digiLab has developed SenSiteUQ, a sensor placement optimiser in the Uncertainty Engine platform designed to tackle one of the most pressing environmental challenges: wastewater management. Effective monitoring of wastewater—containing pollutants such as human waste, chemicals, and food scraps—is critical for water suppliers to ensure and maintain water quality and to reduce the frequency of pollution events.
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At digiLab, we are passionate about nurturing the next generation of AI and Machine Learning professionals by equipping young talent with the skills, experience, and development opportunities they need to thrive in the industry. In September 2024, we welcomed a new group of talented individuals who, in just a few months, have already made a significant impact on our business. By investing in their development, we are also shaping the future of digiLab.
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digiLab will be attending UK House at South by South West (SXSW) 2025 in Austin, Texas, from 8-11th March, as part of the select cohort of fourteen AI companies chosen by the UK’s Department for Business and Trade to showcase their cutting-edge AI capabilities.
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Experts in AI and experts in fusion strengthen their partnership, driving developments in fusion energy innovation
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digiLab is expanding its collaborations with key partners in the fusion industry, supporting two major projects under the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s Lithium Breeding Tritium Innovation (LIBRTI) programme. This £200 million initiative, supported by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, is focused on accelerating the development of fusion fuel.
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As a member of the Fusion Industry Taskforce, digiLab collaborates with engineers, supply chain and academia to provide AI advice and expertise for fusion policy advancement.
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In recent months, digiLab and the Fusion Industry Association (FIA) have launched a Committee on Digital Technologies for the fusion industry.
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digiLab CEO and Co-Founder Tim Dodwell was awarded the Tech Leadership Award at this year’s Tech South West Awards
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Strengthening Collaborations with other Fusion Leaders
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We are delighted to introduce our 2024 graduate recruits. Meet Rebecca, James and Tasmiya.
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digiLab joins UK Tech Accelerator in Germany, selected as an inaugural participant after winning the position along with five other UK companies. This programme aims to bring together the best of British cutting-edge technology to drive innovation in the region. Additionally, digiLab will be opening a new office in Stuttgart and expanding market presence in Europe. The accelerator programme is offering digiLab the opportunity to open their first satellite office in Germany, based at the CODE_n Innovation Hub in Stuttgart. The office is already proving to be an incredibly useful base for business development opportunities in Germany.
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It’s International Women in Engineering Day and we’d like to give a big shoutout to some of the amazing women rocking the world of AI and Machine Learning at digiLab. As a fast-growing startup, our team is ever-expanding and we have been working our socks off to attract brilliant talent, and in particular - brilliant women.
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Welcome to the latest newsletter. Last week, we had a great time exhibiting at Utilities Week Live, with exciting conversations about applying Machine Learning in order to improve sustainability and reduce costs across gas, electricity, and water networks. This week, our Fusion Solution Engineer, Ross Allen, attended ITER's first Private Sector Fusion Workshop. And for those who enjoyed Cyd's article about Predicting Magnetic Fusion Performance, we've released his code in a demo notebook, for twinLab users to explore.
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Welcome to the latest newsletter. Our Fusion Solution Engineer, Cyd, hosted a Fusion & AI webinar as part of the Fusion Energy Week from US Fusion Energy. He also produced a new video, "Predicting Performance for Magnetic Fusion", by modelling a tokamak in twinLab. We're also excited to announce that we're hiring for multiple roles across Fusion and Nuclear Fission Sales: Solution Engineering, MLOps, and Software Engineering.
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Welcome to the latest newsletter. Lots of fusion this week! We've got another event lined up, this time with our CEO, Professor Tim Dodwell, in addition to Cyd's upcoming webinar series; and we've recapped our workshop with the Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT. We've also created a new home for twinLab tutorials, demonstrating a range of its powerful but easy-to-use capabilities.
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Plasma Science and Fusion Centre (PSFC) held a collaborative workshop with digiLab, a machine learning (ML) company, to explore the advantages of probabilistic machine learning in advancing the development of fusion power.
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Welcome to the latest newsletter. We're excited to launch the updated documentation for twinLab, and we've also been busy preparing for an upcoming Fusion and AI webinar.
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On the 20th of March, delegates from digiLab attended the fusion industry association conference in Washington D.C.
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Welcome to the latest newsletter. A shorter, interim one this fortnight - blame the Easter holidays! Our Technical Content Lead, Ana, has produced an in-depth video and accompanying tutorial exploring the Predict capability in twinLab. We've also written up a review of our workshop at the Henry Royce Institute. Get in touch if your organisation would like a similar workshop on the use of Probabilistic ML for engineering workflows.
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digiLab recently co-hosted an ML workshop at the prestigious Royce Discovery Centre, bringing together industry and academia to explore the intersection of machine learning (ML) with the domains of forging, advanced materials, and manufacturing. The event drew representatives from key institutions including the Henry Royce Institute, Rolls Royce, the University of Strathclyde, the University of Manchester, WH Tildesley Ltd, and the University of Sheffield.
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We've been travelling the globe for the last two weeks, attending the Fusion Industry Association annual policy conference in D.C., and delivering twinLab workshops for MIT, for The Henry Royce Institute / Rolls-Royce, and, nearer to home, for Exeter College. Cyd Cowley, fusion solutions engineer at digiLab, has released Part 1 of his "Machine Learning for Fusion" series. Meanwhile, Ana has published the final part of her Gaussian Processes series, finishing up with a look at "autoML" in twinLab. Finally, we're excited to announce our three summer interns.
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We are delighted to introduce the students who will be taking part in digiLab’s 2024 Summer Internship Programme. Joe Rayson is a 2nd year Business and Economics student at the University of Exeter and will work in Business Development at digiLab. Natalia Wojcik is studying for a BSc in Economics at the University of Exeter. Lucas Pigott comes to digiLab fresh from a study abroad year at the University of North Carolina.
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This fortnight, our Technical Content Lead, Ana, has finished the second video in her "Demystifying Gaussian Processes" series. She'll explore how we can choose the right kernel for our Gaussian Process. The twinLab team has also implemented Initial Design Spaces, to help users build models or experiment designs from scratch. Finally, we've joined the U.S. DIII-D National Fusion Facility!
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digiLab has begun efforts to advance fusion in the US, by joining the DIII-D National Fusion Facility, a U.S Department of Energy user facility. As a member of this facility that houses a world-class research tokamak, digiLab can now work with data and scientists from the facility to solve some of the hardest challenges in fusion.
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The big news this fortnight has been success in the water sector. This validates our goal of enabling organisations in multiple industries to take the next step in their digital transformation journey by deploying ML solutions. We've also augmented twinLab with dimensionality reduction capabilities.
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We’ve received almost half a million pounds from OfWat to further develop and commercialise senSiteUQ, our sensor placement optimisation solution for water networks. senSiteUQ enables operators to maximise their understanding of the network, while minimising the total number of sensors required. That translates into better decision-making with reduced costs. senSiteUQ will enable the water sector to reduce CSO pollution, respond faster to extreme weather, improve biodiversity, and have improved live monitoring and data analysis.
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It's been a busy two weeks in the fusion sector: we attended the 2024 FARSCAPE workshop at the UKAEA; and we're excited to announce the formation of our specialist fusion team, supported by key hiring. Meanwhile, our Technical Content Lead, Ana, has released the first part of her explainer video series demystifying Gaussian Processes!
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During the workshop, we demonstrated our large language model for accessing fusion information. We also discussed ongoing and future projects in the programme from simulating plasma turbulence to providing uncertainty quantification for engineering systems!
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digiLab is excited to announce the formation of our specialist Fusion Team, composed of recent hires Dr Ross Allen and Dr Cyd Cowley. They bring extensive domain expertise from across the fusion ecosystem: plasma science, systems engineering and design, advanced control, and advanced materials/manufacturing. They combine this knowledge with strong capabilities in the use of probabilistic Machine Learning to unlock new frontiers in this transformative, rapidly-evolving sector.
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Welcome to the first digiLab newsletter! Here are some highlights of what we've been up to (so far) in 2024, and what's exciting us in the world of data-driven engineering and infrastructure. If you know someone who would be interested in these areas of Machine Learning, share our signup link!
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digiLab hosted a Machine Learning (ML) workshop at Tokamak Energy, focusing on the application of mission-critical ML to fusion energy development workflows. Attendees discovered how to use digiLab’s ML platform, twinLab, to combine their fusion expertise with the latest in probabilistic modelling and uncertainty quantification (UQ).
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Explainablity and transparency are key ideals-straight from Plato's realm of the forms-that developers must hold themselves to in order to facilitate proper ethical and sociological inspection of AI models. At digiLab, this is our bread and butter. This is why we have been registered onto the Ethical AI Database (EAIDB).
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Congratulations and a very warm welcome to the three students who successfully applied to our internship scheme this year, seeing off over 1600 other applicants to the post.
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At digiLab we took the decision to provide our employees with a four day working week from day one. As a leader in the deep tech and machine learning community, it was the right thing to do for our growing business and our employees.
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