The Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation’s Software Innovation Service provides expertise in creating software that can handle vast data sets, complicated taxonomies and specific business needs.
Our team of programmers and engineers provide help to researchers within the University and with external funding partners, from the UK Space Agency to citizen science projects. We can bring our big data expertise to bear on projects outside astrophysics too, such as our recent collaboration with DEFRA on species identification with managed fisheries.
We’re experienced in joining projects as domain experts, learning the language of our partners - be it penguin conservationists or oil spill management teams - and turning diverse live data from multiple sources into a rapidly-functioning analytical project.
Our expertise
Expertise in the team includes
- Understanding large, noisy data sets.
- Converting multiple live data sources - eg photos, GPS data - into an actionable aggregated data set with transition layers
- Application of the SCIAMA Supercomputer to your data
- Machine learning / artificial intelligence
- Citizen Science projects (Zooniverse)
- Custom software engineering (Python)
- Statistical understanding
- Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML)
Our projects
- Zooniverse
- Tactile Universe
- Audible Universe
- DEFRA fish classification
- Battery management software
- Computer Vision analysis of satellite images for disaster relief
- Jovian-1 satellite payload
- Prediction of wave-vessel-payload interactions for maritime safety
- Supervision of projects in industry
- Postgraduate research in the University of Portsmouth
Our teaching
-
Securing the Future of Space: Space Software and Data/AI CPD course
- Advanced Computational Techniques (4th year Maths and Physics)
Our funding
Funders include:
- UK Space Agency
- UKRI
- STFC
- Innovate UK
- DEFRA
- EPSRC
- ESRC
Working with us
Contact us if you’re interested in access to our lab and expertise, or have a data project you want to explore. We’re open to research and collaboration proposals from University colleagues and external partners.
We’re part of RSE South, a research software engineering network founded in early 2022.
Where to find us
Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation
Dennis Sciama Building
Burnaby Road
Portsmouth
PO1 3FX