The Turing Podcast
Episodes
The Survival of the Fittest Route: Genetic Algorithms in Shipping and Sustainability
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How can the study of ant colonies and evolutionary theory help us ensure the resilience and sustainability of global shipping? In this episode, host A...
Navigating Change: AI in Arctic Sea Ice Forecasting
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Arctic is undergoing rapid changes due to climate change, making sea ice forecasting increasingly important. In this episode of the Turing Podcast...
The Cyber Cold War: How AI is Defending Our Critical National Infrastructure
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
New podcast - defending our critical national infrastructure. Podcast host Amelia Jabry is joined by co-host and Turing Principal Research Scientis...
Defining AI safety
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ed and David chat with Professor Ibrahim Habli, Research Director at the Centre for Assuring Autonomy in the University of York, and director of the U...
The cutting edge of emotional and cognitive neuroscience
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Bea and Jessie are joined by Becky Inkster and Mark Sheppard, co-founders of The Laß; a fusion of science, creativity and personal r...
AI for Cyber Defence (AICD) research centre
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To what extent can a computer network be actively managed and defended by intelligent autonomous agents? In this episode, Ed and Anneca talk to Vasili...
Our AI Futures - Lord Chris Holmes and the AI Bill
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of The Turing Podcast Bea and Anneca are joined by Lord Chris Holmes, Britain’s most successful Paralympic swimmer and an active mem...
Project Bluebird: Revolutionising Air Traffic Control with AI and digital twins
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Turing Podcast revisits Project Bluebird; a fascinating collaboration aiming to solve some of the biggest and most complex problems in air traffic...
AI for Cyber Defence
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week the podcast, the hosts are joined by Kate Highnam and Myles Foley, both of whom are PhD candidates at Imperial College London working at the...
Building Digital Tools for Polar Research
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Turing Podcast we chat about some of the research going on in the collaborations between the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and The A...
Data Science for the Arts and Humanities
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week the hosts chat with Dr Katie McDonough and Dr Daniel Wilson. Katie is a lecturer in Digital Humanities in the Department of History at Lanca...
Algorithmic Justice
24 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of The Turing Podcast season 4, the hosts are joined by Cari Hyde-Vaamonde, a PhD candidate at Kings College London and visiting ...
How do we regulate AI?
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial Intelligence has transformed the way we interact with technology, from voice assistants to autonomous vehicles. As the development and impl...
Diagnosing Dementia with AI
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join Bea and Anneca as they discuss the potential and current AI tools being used around treating and diagnosing illnesses such as dementia, with Zoe ...
Making the world add up with Tim Harford
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s Turing Podcast, Ed chats with Tim Harford about the themes from his 2020 book “How to Make the World Add Up”, which include think...
The Coffee Pod - Hussein Rappel
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Coffee Pod! A short series about the Turing's AI for Science and Government fund, that gives you the chance to hear about the people be...
The Coffee Pod - Malvika Sharan
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another Coffee Pod episode! A short series about the Turing's AI for Science and Government fund, that gives you the chance to hear about t...
The Coffee Pod - Fernando Benitez
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another Coffee Pod episode! A short series about the Turing's AI for Science and Government fund, that gives you the chance to hear about t...
The Coffee Pod - Tom Andersson
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another episode of the Coffee Pod Podcast! A short series about the Turing's AI for Science and Government fund, that gives you the chance ...
The Coffee Pod - Domenic DiFrancesco
21 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to another episode of the Coffee Pod podcast! A short series about the Turing's AI for Science and Government fund, that gives you the chance ...
How to Speak Whale
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Following Tom Mustill’s popular Turing Lecture at the Royal Institution, How to Speak Whale, Tom joins Bea and Jo to catch up on the latest advance...
The Coffee Pod - Ruoyun Hui
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the first Coffee Pod episode! A short series about the Turing's AI for Science and Government fund, that gives you the chance to hear abou...
AI in the financial sector
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With Dr Adrian Weller (Programme Director and Turing Fellow) and Kate Platonova (Group Chief Data Analytics Officer at HSBC), Ed Chalstrey discusse...
The Stats Gap
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ed and David as they speak to Ellen Pasternack, a PHD student in evolutionary biology at the University of Oxford. Ellen is a science writer f...
How much can we limit the rising of the seas?
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join Aoife and Sally as they chat to Dr Tamsin Edwards about how she uses AI to predict rising sea levels, following her Turing Lecture at the Royal I...
Where next for self-driving vehicles?
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join Aoife and Torty as they chat with Professor Sarah Sharples about the current state of technology and AI around driverless vehicles. Sarah (chief...
Footballers on Twitter: What is fair game?
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are joined by Manchester United women's footballer Aoife Mannion, Author and CEO of Glitch Seyi Akiwowo and Turing Researcher Pica Johans...
Turing deployment at sea: identifying plankton in real time
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, hosts Bea and Anneca are joined by Robert Blackwell, from CEFAS (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science), who tell...
Machine Learning for Armed Conflict Mediation
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we welcome Dr Miguel Arana-Catania and Professor Rob Procter from the University of Warwick, along with Dr Felix-Anselm van Lier from Oxford...
Living with Machines
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week the hosts are joined by David Beavan, a Senior Research Software Engineer and Dr Kasra Hosseini a Research Data Scientist, both of whom work...
Data Science for Social Good: Predicting air pollution in a post-COVID world?
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Christina catches up with two of her former collaborators, Prithviraj Pramanik and Dr. Subhabrata Majumdar. The three of them worked a...
The right to privacy
18 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Ed and Rachel speak with Geoff Goodell, Senior Research Associate in the Financial Computing and Analytics group at University College L...
The Turing Podcast asks: Where is Bitcoin headed?
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ed & Rachel are joined by Dr Tim Hobson, Senior Research Software Engineer and resident Bitcoin enthusiast at The Alan Turing Institute! Tim offers...
Careers in data science with Accenture
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The latest episode of the Turing Podcast features a special roundtable discussion with our strategic partner Accenture about career options in the dat...
”The problems of AI” with James Geddes
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Turing Podcast, the hosts chat with Dr James Geddes, who is a Principial Research Data Scientist in the Research Engineering Group at...
You don’t need anybody’s permission to be a great mathematician
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk to Dr Nira Chamberlain, president of The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. We talk with Nira about Black History ...
Nicol Turner Lee: Bridging the digital divide
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The hosts were joined by Dr. Nicol Turner Lee to discuss her research on public policy, designed to enable equitable access to technology and digital...
How to communicate science to non-specialists
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We chat about all things science communication with two Turing colleagues: Ethics Research Fellow Mhairi Aitken and Science Writer James Lloyd. They d...
Tackling the Infodemic
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast, we bring you a conversation the hosts had last December with PhD candidate Elizabeth Seger. Elizabeth studies at The Univers...
How can AI help us understand breast cancer
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode hosts Jo Dungate and Rachel Winstanley speak to Andrew Holding, a Senior Research Associate at Cancer Research UK's (CRUK) Cambridge I...
Palaeoanalytics: Using Data Science and Machine Learning to answer questions about Human Evolution
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The hosts chat with to Professor Robert Foley, who works on Human Evolution at the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of The Alan Turing Insti...
How good is AI at detecting online hate?
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
AI is widely lauded as a way of reducing the burden on human online content moderators. However, to understand whether AI could, and should, replace h...
Optimizing Policy for Sustainable Development
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In an interview recorded last year, Jo & Ed are joined by Dr Omar A Guerrero, an Economist & Computational Social Scientist at The Alan Turing Ins...
Covid lockdowns: which policies worked best?
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week on the podcast, the hosts are joined by Sören Mindermann & Mrinank Sharma who are PhD students from Oxford University. Mrinank works as par...
In conversation with Sue Black
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode the hosts were joined by Professor Sue Black to discuss her inspirational life story and career, as well as the initiatives she has s...
Mapping the UK's Solar Power
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week the hosts chat with Dr Dan Stowell, senior researcher at Queen Mary University of London and fellow of The Alan Turing Institute, about his ...
Robert Winston on science & the public in the Covid era
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the podcast, we are joined by Lord Robert Winston to talk about engaging with the public about the science of combatting Covid-19. ...
AlphaFold & Beyond: How AI and Data Science are Revolutionizing Biology
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week the hosts are joined by Professor Tim Hubbard, who is Head of the Department of Medical & Molecular Genetics at King’s College London...
The Dark Triad: Modelling Psychopathy
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On the first episode of season 2, we are joined by Alexander Tokarev, a very recent PhD graduate from the University of Manchester. Alex does research...
The Privacy Collective
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wondered what you were signing up to when you click the “Accept all cookies” button that seems to appear on every new website you visit? In t...
Project Odysseus: Capturing city activity to help exit lockdown
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Turing Podcast, the hosts chat with James Walsh, a research assistant at The Alan Turing Institute, and Funmi Kesa, a PhD student at ...
Reproducible data science: How hard can it be?
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The ability to reproduce the research that other scientists have done to see whether the same results are obtained (or the same conclusions are reache...
Digital Identity: Can we trust it?
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today, September 16th, is International Identity Day! To mark the occasion, the hosts are joined by Carsten Maple, who is Professor at the University ...
Being an Epidemiologist in 2020
14 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Turing Podcast we're joined for a second time by Alan Turing Institute fellow Dr Peter Tennant of the Leeds Institute for Data Analyt...
Data journalism in the Covid19 era
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week The Turing Podcast welcomes our second external guest interviewee: Tom Chivers. Tom is a science writer and journalist who has previously wo...
Antibody Certificates for COVID-19?
28 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On the podcast this week, the hosts chat with Dr Chris Hicks and Dr David Butler, who work as post-doctoral researchers in security and cryptography a...
The Future of Tech
20 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the last couple of decades, we've all been witness to the huge advances in personal computing and the astonishing rise of consumer technology. We n...
Amsterdam's 3D printed steel bridge and it's digital twin
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's podcast, the hosts speak with Dr Eric Daub, a Principal Research Data Scientist at The Alan Turing Institute, about his involvement in ...
AIrsenal: The Fantasy Football AI
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode takes us back the pre-covid19 era, when premier league football was still a thing! Dr Nick Barlow of The Alan Turing Institute's R...
Superbug evolution: understanding the spread of antimicrobial resistance
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Viruses like SARS-CoV-2, which causes Covid-19, aren't the only problem we face globally when it comes to infectious disease. Bacterial pathogens are ...
Image analysis in neurodegenerative disease
18 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Image recognition and classification is a hot topic in AI research, and these tools are increasingly being utilised by biologists with the aim to clas...
Cause & Effect
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Remember back at school when you were taught that correlation doesn’t mean causation, that increased ice cream sales are correlated with sunnier wea...
Astrophysics in the age of big data
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Large datasets and modern machine learning techniques are fast changing the field of Astrophysics and our understanding of the universe. In this episo...
Data trusts: Power to the people in the digital age
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How can groups of people be empowered to share sensitive personal data such as medical records, with transparency about how they will be used? This is...
Tracking the Pandemic
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How can data science support us in tackling the Covid-19 pandemic? Our Researcher at Large, Jon Crowcroft, speaks about how smartphones can be mobilis...
AI for the Skies
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded a few months ago, in our first episode we speak to Dr Radka Jersakova, Research Data Scientist at The Institute about her project that appl...