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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.

Master and Mistress Cutler with Neville Dearden and Prof. James Marshall

Master and Mistress Cutler visit to the Department of Computer Science

Staff from the Department of Computer Science were delighted to welcome the Master and Mistress Cutler to the University and show them the Department’s apiary.
Hend ElGhazaly at the BCSWomen Colloquium

BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium

The BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium is an annual one day conference for women students of Computing and related subjects. This year the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield hosted the event.
An image of a sound wave.

University of Sheffield receives over £8m in funding to train the next generation of artificial intelligence scientists and engineers

University of Sheffield will be one of 16 new Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) in Artificial Intelligence (AI) as part of £100m investment from UKRI
Centre for doctoral training logo - speech and language technologies

University of Sheffield receives over £8m in funding to train the next generation of artificial intelligence scientists and engineers

The UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Speech and Language Technologies and their Applications, hosted at the University of Sheffield, aims to become a world-leading centre for training scientists and engineers in speech and language technologies (SLT), two core areas within artificial intelligence.
Computer Science student, Harvey Cash.

Computer Science student confirmed as SURE Student Researcher of the Year

Congratulations to Harvey Cash who has been awarded the Sheffield Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Student Researcher of the Year award. Harvey was nominated by Professor Guy Brown for his project "Low-Cost Sensors for the Diagnosis and Monitoring of Obstructive Sleep Apnoea".