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Professor Guy Brown and Dr Ning Ma with the CIDRZ team at the field recording site at Kanyama Level One Hospital, Lusaka.
Professor Guy Brown and Dr Ning Ma with the CIDRZ team at the field recording site at Kanyama Level One Hospital, Lusaka.

Computer Science academics strengthen AI health research links with the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ)

Dr Ning Ma and Professor Guy Brown from the School of Computer Science recently visited Zambia to initiate a second project that will research the potential of using AI analysis of cough sound to screen for tuberculosis (TB).
Hey MiRo demo at Festival of the Mind

Understanding how robots could fit into the social fabric of human society

Meet Miro! This animal-like robot integrated with AI perception and language models featured at the University's Festival of the Mind 2024 and received lots of interest from the public interested in the possibility of robot companions.
second year computer science student, Shohail Ismail, infront of a big IBM sign

Computer Science student places highly at IBM TechXchange hackathon

Second-year Computer Science student, Shohail Ismail, recently placed 5th at the IBM TechXchange watsonx hackathon out of over 4,000 participants.
The team in the Heartspace

Inside Sheffield's Indoor Urban Farm

Meet Future Greens - a team of University of Sheffield alumni (including a co-founder from Computer Science) aiming to change farming as we know it with their urban vertical farm.

Po Yang paper on pest recognition

Dr Po Yang's paper voted as best of 2022 in prestigious industry journal

A senior lecturer from the Department has won acclaim from one of the world’s largest technical professional organisations dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.
Top view of depressed woman in pyjamas lying in bed in bedroom. - stock photo
Woman sleeping in pyjamas

How to stop snoring for good

Dr Ning Ma, from the Department of Computer Science, comments on the signs that people should look out for to see if they have sleep apnoea.

| The Telegraph
Swics panel Ada Lovelace day

'A great way to make friends' - Sheffield Women in Computer Science Society look for new recruits

The Sheffield Women in Computer Science Society (SWiCS) is all about bringing people together. Founded in 2019, the aim was to create a community within a subject area that can often suffer from a gender imbalance.
Paul Richmond receiving RSE award

Paul Richmond honoured for contribution to Society of Research Software Engineers

An academic from the Department of Computer Science has been honoured by the Society of Research Software Engineers for his outstanding contribution as President of the organisation.
COM researchers Phil McMinn and Owain Parry

Researchers find new hope through machine learning for dreaded ‘flaky test’

Researchers from the Department’s Testing Research Group are working on innovative solutions to a problem that causes much frustration among software developers - flaky tests.