Ana Basiri
@AnahidBasiri
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Professor of Geospatial Data Science, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, RAEng EngineeringX Champion, EiC of Journal of Navigation
London, Glasgow, on Zoom!
Joined December 2014
Delighted to share our @GSDSglasgow contribution to this @BBCNews report on the #water footprint of #DataCenters. We worked closely with @BBC to model the water use thanks to their FoI data I was on @BBCScotland this morning to discuss more about 👉🏻
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The volume of tap water used by Scotland's data centres has quadrupled since 2021, figures show.
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Primary school pupils hold ‘unique perspectives’ on AI that must shape approaches to the technology, hears major conference on AI and ethics in education https://t.co/mlaroEeAKx
@LHSymposiumAI @uofglasgow @tes @TesScotland
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Children are ‘excited’ about AI but want policymakers to acknowledge their concerns about issues such as biased representation, hears a major event on the ethics of the technology in education
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An absolute pleasure to join the panel @VisitScotParl on "will #artificialgeneralintelligence save our #Economy and #planet chaired by @ClareAdamsonSNP this Friday Such an engaging audience! Absolute honour to talk to them afterwards too!
🎉 Huge thanks to our panellists, chairs, performers, festival staff, and every single person who joined us at the Festival of Politics 2025. You brought the energy, the ideas, and the heart that made this year unforgettable. 💬🎭🎶 Until next time! 🙌 #FoP2025
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🎉 Huge thanks to our panellists, chairs, performers, festival staff, and every single person who joined us at the Festival of Politics 2025. You brought the energy, the ideas, and the heart that made this year unforgettable. 💬🎭🎶 Until next time! 🙌 #FoP2025
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Artificial intelligence experts will gather at @UofGARC to discuss the impact of the rapidly advancing technology on learning, teaching and research at the second Lovelace-Hodgkin Symposium on Oct 2-3. Read more and sign up for free tickets here: https://t.co/PaQKtLHXdL
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Minister for Parliamentary Business @jamiehepburn visited The Mazumdar-Shaw Advanced Research Centre @UofGlasgow. Supported by @ScotGov, the facility is using advanced statistical modelling to help shape public policy in areas such as public health, climate change and education.
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Our new AI model AlphaEarth Foundations is mapping the planet in astonishing detail. 🌏🔍 Scientists will now be able to track the impact of deforestation, monitoring crop health, and more – significantly faster, thanks to our new datasets. 🧵
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🚨🚨 @UofG_CDSAI has several 3-year Research Fellows positions in #AI & #DataScience Join us to work on cutting-edge research & apply them to real world challenges! 🚀👩🏻💻🧑🏾💻👨💻 Apply: https://t.co/AysDqhRzr6 by 25.08 Stay tuned for #Research #Software #Engineer positions too!
📢 We’re hiring! The Centre for Data Science & AI @UofGlasgow is recruiting new Fellows ✅ Lead your own interdisciplinary research 🤝Join a vibrant community 🌍Help shape the future of data science & AI Links to the application and more information below!
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🚨 We’re hiring a Knowledge Exchange Officer! Help shape impact + collaboration in #DataScience & #AI research 💡 📅 Apply by 07 Aug 🔗 https://t.co/zb6XCPcfM6 Don't forget, we're also hiring Fellows👇 https://t.co/T8LdoI5q6l Please share!💫
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📢 We’re hiring! The Centre for Data Science & AI @UofGlasgow is recruiting new Fellows ✅ Lead your own interdisciplinary research 🤝Join a vibrant community 🌍Help shape the future of data science & AI Links to the application and more information below!
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The last two days we had a fantastic new edition of #agit2025 conference at @Z_GIS1. We had a full house and two fantastic keynote speakers @DrGeoff2 and @AnahidBasiri! Thanks everyone for helping to make this reality and thanks to the scientific community f
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Here is the other panel details. It is going to be a fun week! https://t.co/DiAZcB9XNX
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Time to brush up my German for #AGIT2025 Looking forward to meeting such a great multi sector event. I see many familiar names! Let's “Shape Geospatial Futures”! Missing Day1 though, to be in Manchester on a panel on #GenAI Tnx to @Joe_GISc @Z_GIS1
https://t.co/DUV9lhp3XF
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Pleased to share our paper won this year's best paper award at #AGILE2025 🎉 Find the full paper here: https://t.co/4t2m497LOH Congratulations Joe & @GSDSglasgow I missed some sessions but I enjoyed meeting with colleagues & friends in Dresden #LLM #geospatial #proximity
✨Joe Shingleton and @AnahidBasiri are finalists for Best Paper at #AGILE2025!✨ Their paper, "How close is 'close'? An analysis of the spatial characteristics of perceived proximity using Large Language Models", is up for the honour this Friday, 13 June. Best of luck to you!
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On my way to Dresden to attend #AGILE2025 & meet my colleagues & friends How much I love this #conference? Well, I am going to miss #LondonTechWeek from today! A lot on #AI For full disclosure I attended the first days plus a reception by our own @DataLabScotland @UKGovScotland
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✨Joe Shingleton and @AnahidBasiri are finalists for Best Paper at #AGILE2025!✨ Their paper, "How close is 'close'? An analysis of the spatial characteristics of perceived proximity using Large Language Models", is up for the honour this Friday, 13 June. Best of luck to you!
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I am delighted to join today's event of #CrossSectorHubScot and present why & how @UofG_CDSAI facilitate cross sector collaborative #research & #Innovation in #AI for #Healthcare
Professor Dame Anna Dominiczak @UofGRegiusAnna @CSO_Scotland opens the @acmedsci #CrossSectorHubScot launch event highlighting the main aim of enhancing and supporting inter-sector engagement and collaboration to solve the major challenges facing healthcare
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More women only use the initial as first name on their postboxes (perhaps for safety?) Or "low-performing students" skipping an optional advanced test more often... These are examples of #Missingness At #Random where you miss data linked to another variable. @datadiverdom (yes,
Our brilliant researcher Dominick Sutton’s paper “Exploring a Diagnostic Test for Missingness at Random”, co-authored with @AnahidBasiri and Ziqi Li, is now published in Mathematics! 🎉📄 Is it open source, so please feel free to have a look
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