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New £235K UKRI Metascience Grant to Explore AI’s Impact on Research Stewardship

Researchers from Sheffield’s RSE team have won £235K in UKRI funding to explore AI's impact on research stewardship. "Paying it Forward" will help funders track resource creation and ensure foundational datasets receive proper recognition.
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School of Computer Science academic wins prestigious Best Paper Award at ICALP 2026

Dr Maksim Zhukovskii from the School of Computer Science has been awarded the Best Paper Award in Track A at ICALP 2026 for notable research into graph canonical labelling.
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Sheffield AI research highlighted in Financial Times feature on UK digital economy

Professor James Marshall, Director of the Centre for Machine Intelligence, discusses how South Yorkshire's physical AI and advanced engineering are driving UK economic growth outside of London.
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Forging a Responsible Future: University of Sheffield's Centre for Machine Intelligence Unveils 2026 Strategy

The University of Sheffield’s Centre for Machine Intelligence (CMI) has launched its Strategy 2026, a plan to advance artificial intelligence while championing responsible, human-centric development.
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New ‘blueprint’ for advancing practical, trustworthy AI

A new ‘blueprint’ for building AI that highlights how the technology can learn from different kinds of data to make it more deployable in the real world, has been developed by researchers at the University of Sheffield and the Alan Turing Institute.
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Welcoming Professor Or Meir to the School of Computer Science

Professor Meir joins us in his role as Professor of Algorithms.
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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.
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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.

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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.