Aviva
Our founding partner is Aviva, the UK's leading insurance company. We work with industrial partners to build a portfolio of collaborative research projects, provide professional development opportunities for their own staff and access to the full breath and depth of the University's talent pool in the Data Science space.
"Over the years, our partnership has grown and flourished, bringing together the best of both world: the academic thought leadership of the University of Cambridge and the market-leading insurance and investment expertise of Aviva. Together, we have driven the impact of data science, advancing research and education in this fast-moving field."
Alessia Kosagowsky, Chief Data Officer, Chair of Aviva Quantum
Insuring its Future
The Aviva story as part of the University's case study of Strategic Partners
"A new partnership between Aviva and Cambridge is asking what do advances in technology and data science mean for the future of insurance?"
Aviva and Cambridge partnership video
Find out how Aviva and the University of Cambridge are working together, applying cutting-edge data science to real world problems here
Podcasts
Quantum is Aviva's data science practice, led by Dr Orlando Machado. Quantum have partnered the University of Cambridge, collaborating with some of their best minds on a variety of research projects. The latest Quantum podcasts are linked below. The full selection of Aviva podcasts can be found on Sound Cloud.
Aviva funded PhD
October 2019 saw the beginning of five Aviva-funded PhD projects in the Mathematics, Computer Science and Psychology departments as well as at the Institute of Manufacturing:
Jan Stantzuk joined the Mathematics of Information PhD programme with a project on "Trustworthy machine learning for ovarian cancer imagining"
Michelle Lee studied at the Computer Lab at Cambridge and her research was titled "Context and fairness in machine learning"
Edward Kosasih studied Operations Research and Machine Learning at the Institute for Manufacturing