<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please see below. If there’s interest in doing this, please let me know, so I can coordinate.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We all have contacts in the US which we could share for this.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Gopal</div><div class=""><br class="">
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<div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">—<br class="">Dr. Sarvapali D. (Gopal) Ramchurn<br class="">Associate Professor<br class="">Director, Centre for Machine Intelligence,<br class="">Electronics and Computer Science,<br class="">University of Southampton, UK.<br class="">t: +44 (0) 2380599309<br class="">w: <a href="http://www.sramchurn.com" class="">http://www.sramchurn.com</a><br class="">l: Rm 4021, B32, University Road, Southampton.</div>
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Price N. <<a href="mailto:N.Price@soton.ac.uk" class="">N.Price@soton.ac.uk</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Funding opportunity: Novel Artificial Intelligence Frameworks in Support of Collaborative Complex Decision Making”. </b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">31 May 2018 at 15:02:39 BST<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Sarvapali Ramchurn <<a href="mailto:sdr1@soton.ac.uk" class="">sdr1@soton.ac.uk</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Hywel Morgan <<a href="mailto:hm@ecs.soton.ac.uk" class="">hm@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>>, Tim Norman <<a href="mailto:T.J.Norman@soton.ac.uk" class="">T.J.Norman@soton.ac.uk</a>>, Di Chio C. <<a href="mailto:C.Di-Chio@soton.ac.uk" class="">C.Di-Chio@soton.ac.uk</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Hi Gopal<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">There was a funding opportunity announced last week and I thought I would send it to you in case you hadn’t picked it up. It is a Bilateral Academic Research Initiative (BARI) in the area of AI and collaborative decision making (human-machine teaming)<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span> specifically<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">,</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>“Novel Artificial Intelligence Frameworks in Support of Collaborative Complex Decision Making”.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="search-custom1" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);"><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">The BARI programme supports basic research in science and engineering between U.S. and UK universities in areas that would be of interest to</span></span><span class="search-custom1" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span class="search-custom1" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);"><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">the U.S. Department of Defense and the MoD in the UK. For this call, the DoD and MoD are interested in proposals from academic teams that ‘build frameworks for new AI agents that allow the exploration of the ‘virtual human’ with an emphasis on developing behaviors and process for true teaming with human counterparts.’</span></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Below is the link to the full details of the statement of requirement for academic proposals (also attached - p<span class="search-custom1" style="color: rgb(54, 54, 54);"><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">p.5-8 contain the detail of the research to be undertaken</span></span>). It also gives a point of contact who can provide more information on the technical areas of interest. <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html?keywords=BARI" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html?keywords=BARI</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">The closing date for proposals is 06 July 2018 and submission is through the online portal SAM, which we are registered on, and the FPSE finance team are fairly well-versed in how it use it, I believe. Funding is for three years for up to US$3 million. Eligible teams must comprise at least one UK and one US University.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Please do forward to any colleagues in the AIC group or beyond, you feel may be interested. It is inter-disciplinary and this call does seem to fit quite nicely with your new Centre for Machine Intelligence. If you are interested in applying and would like some support from RIS please do contact Cecilia and me.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Kind regards<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">****<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Niki Price<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Research Funding Manager<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">University of Southampton<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Research and Innovation Services<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Highfield Campus<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Southampton<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">SO17 1BJ<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 8574<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class=""><a href="http://www.southampton.ac.uk/ris" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">www.southampton.ac.uk/ris</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span class="">Read the latest edition of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span class=""><a href="https://issuu.com/university_of_southampton/docs/4793_uos_march_edition_reaction_web" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><b class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">Re:action</span></b></a><b class="">, the University’s research and enterprise newsletter<o:p class=""></o:p></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class=""></span></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>