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Or Meir

Welcoming Professor Or Meir to the School of Computer Science

Professor Meir joins us in his role as Professor of Algorithms.
AI For Math Fund

Sheffield to lead $1M project on AI-powered theorem proving, funded by Renaissance Philanthropy and XTX Markets

Titled ‘Copilots for Isabelle: Learning Logical Structure for a Better Proving Experience’, will advance the foundations and technology of interactive theorem proving, developing next-generation methods for proof assistants.
Bei and Amir

Meet our new academics

We are delighted to be welcoming Bei Peng, Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence & Applications of AI, and Amir Ghalamzan, Associate Professor, to the School of Computer Science.

Academics from the University of Sheffield's Centre for Machine Intelligence being presented with an award on stage at the UKAIRS symposium
Academics from the University's Centre for Machine Intelligence have won an impact award at the UK's first national conference for AI research. The award recognises their research that is driving the responsible use of AI. Credit: UK AI Research Symposium

University of Sheffield researchers win UK first national AI prize

A new award recognising the strength and impact of the UK’s AI research, has been awarded to academics at the University of Sheffield.

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An image embedded with 1000 words from Tolstoy's War and Peace, using PVD Image Steganography

Reverse-engineering insect brains to make robots ‘natural’ learners

How groundbreaking Department of Computer Science spin-out Opteran has reverse-engineered insect brains to derive new algorithms for collision avoidance and navigation that can be used in robotics.

| EE Times Europe
Sheffield skyline view of the Diamond building

Sheffield businesses first to receive millions from new Northern investment company

Opteron, a Department of Computer Science spin-out, is one of two companies to receive millions of pounds in investment from Northern Gritstone.
Dr Sagnik Mukhopadhyay and Dr Christain Coester in Regent Court

Algorithms Group have three papers accepted for prestigious FOCS 2022

Academics from the Department’s rapidly growing Algorithms Group are celebrating having three papers accepted for the 63rd Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2022)
The mars rover on the floor of an engineering workshop in Sheffield

Computer science students help team reach final of international Mars rover competition

A group of students from the Faculty of Engineering are the only team from the UK to qualify for the finals of an international competition to build a Mars rover.
two computer science students chatting in the Diamond.

Students vote computer science subject as number one for satisfaction among Russell Group universities

Students have voted the University of Sheffield’s computer science subject as number one for overall satisfaction in the Russell Group, according to the latest National Student Survey (NSS).