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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.

Student winners

Sheffield Team win the Engineers in Business Innovation Competition

Computer Science student, Chelsie Edun is part of a team of engineering students who have won first prize in the final of the Engineers in Business Champion of Champions innovation competition - ‘big ideas’ category.

Sheffield engineers reach final of $10m global avatar competition

Researchers from the Department of Computer Science are through to the final of a major global competition to develop an avatar system that can transport human presence to a remote location instantly.
A graphic explaining that 20 per cent of women journalists surveyed in a study said they have been attacked or abused offline

Towards an Early Warning System for Violence Against Women Journalists

University of Sheffield researchers are part of a major UK-government funded research project to work towards an early warning system to help detect, predict, and ultimately prevent violence against women journalists.
Two students looking at the camera

Research students beat the competition to be accepted by the NeurIPS 2021 conference.

Two PhD students, Tom McDonald and Magnus Ross, have had their submissions accepted by the NeurIPS 2021 conference. Competition was tough - from more than 9000 applications only 26% of submissions were accepted for the poster presentation.
Eleni Vasilaki profile photo

Professor Vasilaki awarded visiting professorship at the University of Zurich

Congratulations to Professor Vasilaki who has been awarded a visiting professorship at the University of Zurich as part of the Inge Strauch program.