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Artificial Intelligence

Reasoned Decision and Machine Explanation: A Formal Account of Interpretability under Administrative Constraint

Dr. Alexandra Morgan · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The thesis addresses a mismatch between the explanatory guarantees offered by contemporary machine learning methods and the standard of reasoned decision required when automated systems are used by public authorities. It develops a formal semantics for model explanation, demonstrates limitations in the post-hoc explanation paradigm, and…

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Neuroscience

Temporal Signatures of Neurodegenerative Change: Longitudinal Modelling for Pre-Symptomatic Detection

Dr. Aditi Sharma · University of Cambridge

The thesis investigates whether high-resolution longitudinal neural recordings contain detectable signatures of neurodegenerative processes prior to clinical presentation, and develops modelling approaches suited to the small-sample, long-horizon structure of such data.

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Medicine & Health

Designing Epidemiological Surveillance for Constrained Health Systems

Prof. Kwame Osei · University of Ghana

The research programme develops and evaluates outbreak-detection methods designed to operate under the data conditions typical of health systems with intermittent reporting, limited laboratory confirmation and substantial missingness.

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What interpretability actually requires

A decade of explanation methods has produced impressive demonstrations and remarkably few guarantees. A reading of the formal literature, and of what…

Artificial Intelligence · Sep 3, 2026 · 9 min read

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