Launch of UoB and Ten-D collaboration

Earlier this week, I was invited to celebrate the launch of a new partnership between the University and Ten-D Innovations. The Centre for Data Science, Computer Vision and Machine Learning has been established as link between Buckingham and Shanghai.

Here I am talking with Mrs Weiying Cui General Manager of Ten- D Energies. (Thank you to Louise Stoner for this and other pics) The UoB has entered into a research partnership worth £1.3 million with an additional donation towards up to 5 on-campus electric vehicle charging units.

I am particularly happy that as part of this initiative the University has instituted

The Diversity Scholarship: To encourage more females into computing an automatic scholarship, worth £2,000, is available to talented undergraduate students to encourage more female students wishing to study Computing at Buckingham. This scholarship is funded by our most generous and distinguished alumnus, Mr Weiyou Cui. We are most grateful to him for his kindness and generosity, and we hope his donation will have a very positive impact in improving diversity in computing at the University of Buckingham

There were many people present from across what the University is now choosing to call the Oxford - Buckingham - Milton Keynes - Cambridge arc. Here I am talking with the MP for MK South Iain Stewart who is the government's champion for the arc. (We had a very interesting conversation about the likely route of the of the proposed expressway..) Also in the picture is Dean of Law Professor Susan Edwards with whom I expect to working closely over 'town and gown' matters.

I wish I could have stayed longer. I wish the University well in this new initiative.