Computing & AI

Advancing computers, software, and artificial intelligence, and how we use them safely

#16 of 29 research categories by total funding · About £37 per person in the UK

Funded awards

7,751

Published funding

£2.5B

Average published award

£478K

Active funded awards

1,423

NIHR-supported projects

255

Amounts are published for 5,223 of 7,751 funded awards. Data as of 16 July 2026.

EPSRC funds the most Computing & AI research — 3,050 grants (39% of the topic). The busiest year was 2023, with 876 grants.

Top Funders by Funded Award Count

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Funder	Funded awards
EPSRC	3,050
InnovateUK	2,192
EC	916
UKRI	840
STFC	162
ESRC	155
BBSRC	88
MRC	80
NIHR	78
AHRC	56

Funded Awards by Year

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Year	Funded awards
2006	112
2007	110
2008	123
2009	88
2010	94
2011	136
2012	134
2013	269
2014	264
2015	420
2016	357
2017	436
2018	530
2019	513
2020	644
2021	620
2022	639
2023	876
2024	857
2025	431

Grants


NPIC: National Pathology Imaging Co-Operative	University of Leeds	UKRI	£12.6M	2019	Completed
An innovative open-source private cloud platform enabling developers to create applications faster, easier, and 80% cheaper than public cloud	Qumulus Technology LTD	InnovateUK	£347K	2024	Completed
Aston University and Phoebus Software Limited KTP 24_25 R4	Aston University	InnovateUK	£239K	2025	Active
The University of Essex and Climbing Trees Online Marketing KTP 24_25 R2	University of Essex	InnovateUK	£132K	2025	Active
Project WorkTOP (Work Transparency & Optimisation Platform)	Knowledge Capital LTD	InnovateUK	£70K	2018	Completed
AI for Collective Intelligence (AI4CI)	University of Bristol	EPSRC	£10.3M	2024	Active
Artificial Intelligence in the Air	Imperial College London	UKRI	£1.7M	2023	Active
UNTOLD: Unifying Foundations for Topological Deep Learning	Imperial College London	UKRI	£1.7M	2024	Active
Building Silicon Brain Cube for Green and Trustworthy AI	Imperial College London	UKRI	£1.4M	2024	Active
Turing AI Fellowship: Machine Learning Foundations of Digital Twins	University of Warwick	EPSRC	£1.3M	2021	Completed
Data-Driven Algorithms for Data Acquisition	—	UKRI	£1.2M	2024	Active
Learned Exascale Computational Imaging (LEXCI)	University College London	UKRI	£980K	2021	Completed
Optical neural networks for ultra-fast, low-latency machine intelligence	Lumai Limited	InnovateUK	£946K	2023	Completed
Unlocking spiking neural networks for machine learning research	University of Sussex	EPSRC	£835K	2022	Active
DOLORES - Digital optical computing platform for neural networks	University of Southampton	UKRI	£765K	2024	Active
Optimising Industry Dynamics: A Performance-Persistent AI System Adaptable to Rapid Data and Model Changes	Instill Ai LTD	InnovateUK	£748K	2024	Completed
LMB 2023/07 Machine Learning GPU Cluster	MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology	MRC	£719K	2023	Completed
Application-level Swarm-based Orchestration Across the Cloud-to-Edge Continuum	University of Westminster	UKRI	£581K	2024	Active
Piccolo: In-network compute for 5G services	British Telecommunications Public Limited Company	InnovateUK	£557K	2020	Completed
FAITH: Fostering Artificial Intelligence Trust for Humans towards the optimization of trustworthiness through large-scale pilots in critical domains	University of Southampton	UKRI	£461K	2024	Active

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