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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.
TikTok

TikTok bans: what the evidence says about security and privacy concerns

Department Cybersecurity Lecturer Dr Benjamin Dowling offers his take on the furore surrounding TikTok privacy concerns.

| The Conversation
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Twitter insiders: We can't protect users from trolling under Musk

Department of Computer Science research features in a BBC Panorama investigation into the escalation of online violence, abuse and trolling on the social media platform.

| BBC News
Zalan Levai

'To say I'm excited is an understatement' - student's paper accepted at influential international conference

An undergraduate student is celebrating after the dissertation project he put everything into has been accepted as a paper at a prestigious international software testing conference.
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More success for Algorithms group as papers accepted at STOC 2023

An academic from the Department’s Algorithms research group has had two papers accepted at one of the top global conferences in theoretical computer science.
Cyberselves

Robotics innovations aim to protect battlefield medics and nuclear engineers

Department spin-out BOW (formerly Cyberselves) has won two contracts to create robotic systems to help remove people from harm on battlefields and assist in decommissioning legacy nuclear sites.

| The Business Desk