Des Higham has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for his project “Numerical Analysis for Stable AI”. The project will identify, quantify and mitigate vulnerabilities in current artificial intelligence algorithms from a numerical analysis perspective. Novel mathematical research will emerge along six overlapping axes: inevitability; editability; targetability; universality; roundability; legislatability. The project will identify high-profile open questions requiring tools from matrix analysis, optimization, backward error analysis, condition number theory and stochastic computation.This round attracted over 2,500 proposals with less than 12% being selected for funding. Des was one of 2 successes for the University of Edinburgh and one of 9 successes across Europe for mathematics.Click to read the European Research Council announcement Tags AI Staff success Publication date 19 Sep, 2025
