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Dr Zheng Yuan

A warm welcome to Dr Zheng Yuan who joins the School of Computer Science

Dr Zheng Yuan joins us in her role as Senior Lecturer in Natural Language Processing.
The 25th Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science (MGS 25) in Sheffield

School of Computer Science hosts the 25th Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science (MGS 25)

The event was hosted here at the University of Sheffield between 7 and 11 April 2025.
Swagato Sanyal

Meet our new Lecturer in Algorithms: Dr Swagato Sanyal

We are delighted to be welcoming Dr Swagato to the School of Computer Science.

Students who took part in the engineers for business final

Second year engineering students pitched ideas at 2025 Engineers in Business final

Six top teams from the University of Sheffield pitched innovative solutions in high-stakes competition.
A digital representation of a human head to represent AI

AI unlikely to gain human-like cognition, unless connected to real world through robots

Connecting artificial intelligence systems to the real world through robots and designing them using principles from evolution is the most likely way AI will gain human-like cognition, according to research from the Department of Computer Science.
abstract image showing Ai music generation

New AI project unveils open-source models to boost computational music research

Researchers have launched the Multimodal Art Projection (MAP) project to provide high-performance and cost-effective open source models to the computational music research communities, as well as professional and amateur musicians more broadly.
Yorick Wilks

In Memoriam: Professor Yorick Wilks (1939 - 2023)

Professor Yorick Wilks, one of pioneers of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, passed away peacefully at his home in Oxford on 14 April 2023. He was 83.

Sumo takeover Jake Hapgood

Students test their practical skills with award-winning games developer, Sumo Digital

International games developer Sumo Digital gave students the opportunity to put theory into practice with a ‘takeover’ of the Machines and Intelligence module.
MRG The Wave building photo

UK Speech 2023 conference to be held in Sheffield

The flagship annual meeting of the UK and Ireland speech technology research communities is coming to the University of Sheffield this June.