AI Engineering presentations by UCL CS undergraduates at Bett 2025

UCL Computer Science had the prestige of some of our brightest undergraduate students presenting their project work at Bett 2025, the leading annual EdTech conference at ExCel London.

This was a fantastic opportunity to showcase their work as the event had 35,000 visitors, with experts, including our staff and students, sharing their knowledge to push the boundaries of what’s possible in education. 

In the session ‘Student-teacher interactions empowered by equitable AI computing’, Professor Dean Mohamedally and students discussed how they use AI to help solve society’s education and neuro-learning challenges. Four teams of undergrads presented on the first day of the event, with their EdTech innovations for schools. Supported by Intel, IBM, MotionInput Games, and the National Autistic Society, the teams are in the process of building prototypes of assistive technologies and proofs of concept that enhance student-teacher interactions.  

The projects that the students showcased from the UCL Tech for Good AI Lab were: 

• a reading app that makes improving a learner’s pronunciation into a karaoke-style game 
• a tool that uses AI to encourage and measure class participation and identify students who may need further attention 
• a reading accessibility app that makes books scalable for different comprehension capabilities and provides accompanying augmented reality images  
• touchless technology that can turn any TV and tabletop projection into a whiteboard 

Our brilliant student presenters were led by Aishani Sinha, alongside Peter Ling, Sahil Gaikwad, Jack Chen, Ediz Cinbas and Pranay Vaka.  

Thank you to Corinna Laurie, Occupational Therapist at the Helen Allison School, Marie-Louise Holmberg, Assistant Headteacher at the Helen Allison School (both also represented the National Autistic Society), and Prof Costas Stylianou from Intel Corporation. The event was coordinated and supported by Stuart Walker who has been an incredible advocate of our Tech for Good AI lab and our projects. We were also joined at the event by Hector Minto, Director of Commercial Accessibility at Microsoft. 

Professor Dean Mohamedally also participated in ‘Cut through the hype on AI: A panel discussion on innovation, impact, and policy’, discussing how and where AI is starting to positively impact teaching and learning at UCL Computer Science through partnerships with industry.  

On the Thursday event at Bett 2025, the ‘Game-on: How gaming is shaping the future of education for children with SEND’ session, featured Taznim Nisha, CS Widening Participation Officer, who joined the panel to explore how gaming enhances learning outcomes such as increased engagement and the development of communication skills, in ways that traditional education may not be able to.  

Our students also gave insights into how gaming can be effectively integrated into SEND education by discussing the projects they have developed. The panel was moderated by Joanna Gibbs, CEO & Founder - SENsational Tutors Ltd, and included Zaina Minhas, Occupational Therapist - National Autistic Society who also mentors our CS students on a weekly basis. 

We were really proud of how well our students presented their AI Engineering in offline AI and AI PC technologies for education and how passionately they spoke about their projects!  

The common theme of the sessions that UCL Computer Science participated in was that schools, teachers and students can be empowered to own and run their own AI offline. The next generation of students are going to have first-hand prompt engineering skills, learning how and what to ask, and generate better explanations of everything around them.  

At the same time, the gap for access to this is widening, and inclusivity needs to be reinforced. Actively giving development time for neurodiverse learners and improving engagement between teachers and students, and students together in classrooms is not yet a common thread in AI Research and Development.  At UCL Computer Science, students and staff, with industry partnerships' vital aid, aim to change that. 

LINKS
Bett Global Show 2025
National Autistic Society
SENsational Tutors

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