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External advisory board members

New external advisory board appointed for the Centre for Machine Intelligence

Ten leaders from organisations from industry, government, and the third sector, have joined a new advisory board to guide AI research at the University of Sheffield.

EYH winning team

Engineering You’re Hired students showcase innovation and creativity at the Engineers and Scientists in Business Final

The entrepreneurial talent and creativity of our students was celebrated at the 2026 Engineers and Scientists in Business Competition Final.
Carolina Scarton

“If you tell kids they can’t go on social media, that’s exactly what they will do.”

Dr Carolina Scarton speaks to Sheffield Tribune on the increasing number of children using social media who are being targeted with lies online.
Data verification abstract AI

School of Computer Science awarded funding to build datasets shaping the future of AI

The project builds datasets to stress-test AI’s ability to safely analyze complex charts, tables, and long text within professional fact-checking scenarios.

AI helps create soundtrack for breathtaking Mercury flyby

An extraordinary new film showing the planet Mercury appear from the shadows is soundtracked with the help of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) tools developed at the University of Sheffield.
Joachim Spoerhase profile pic

Foundations of Computation research group has paper accepted at highly selective FOCS 2023

A researcher in the Department’s Foundations of Computation research group has had a paper accepted for one of the most prestigious and selective conferences in theoretical computer science.
Dr Dan Blackburn from the University of Sheffield introducing a study participant to the CognoSpeak system on a laptop

Groundbreaking speech technology could speed up dementia diagnosis

A new AI tool that could help doctors assess the early signs of dementia and Alzheimer’s more quickly and efficiently has been developed by Department of Computer Science and Department of Neuroscience researchers.
A honeybee flying over black and white coloured discs

Honeybees make rapid, accurate decisions and could inspire future of AI, study suggests

New research revealing how honeybees can make fast and accurate decisions, which could help to design more efficient robots and autonomous machines, has been published by Department of Computer Science researchers.
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.