British Chinese researchers awarded major artificial intelligence grants

[Photo by Meng Delong/For China Daily] Two British Chinese artificial intelligence, or AI, experts have been awarded major United Kingdom research fellowships for their groundbreaking research projects into communications and the fight against cancer. Manchester University AI researcher Christopher Yau and Warwick University computer scientist He Yulan were among 15 top UK academics to win a Turing AI Accelerator Fellowship this year, and will receive grants from a 20-million-pound ($26.7-million) fund set up by British innovation agency UK Research and Innovation. Yau won his fellowship for his work that combines artificial intelligence and genomics, which is a field of molecular…