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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.

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.