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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.

Lightweight manufacturing at the AMRC

University of Sheffield leads the UK in engineering research income and investment

The University of Sheffield leads the UK in engineering research income and investment, according to the latest figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).
qamar naith alumna

Computer Science Alumna Wins Award for Social Action

Congratulations to Computer Science alumna, Dr Qamar Naith, who won the Study UK Alumni Award for Social Action in Saudi Arabia
Andrei Popescu at POPL conference

Dr. Andrei Popescu receives distinguished paper award at POPL for the third consecutive year

Andrei has received distinguished paper awards at the last three Principle of Programming Languages (POPL) conferences, one of the most prestigious conferences in Computer Science.
A man looking at a computer in an open plan office

New AI guidance could help businesses and government use the technology

A new framework that could help businesses better understand and use AI has been developed by researchers from the University of Sheffield.
Nick Thompson, CEO of BOW, stood next to Daniel Camilleri, CTO and Founder of BOW with some robots in the background

University of Sheffield spinout company receives £4 million investment to unleash full potential of robotics

Professor Tony Prescott is the Co-founder and Chief Scientific Advisor of a spinout company aiming to help developers overcome the cost and complexity of programming robots. He advises on AI and robotics and builds relationships with partners.