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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.
External advisory board members

New external advisory board appointed for the Centre for Machine Intelligence

Ten leaders from organisations from industry, government, and the third sector, have joined a new advisory board to guide AI research at the University of Sheffield.

EYH winning team

Engineering You’re Hired students showcase innovation and creativity at the Engineers and Scientists in Business Final

The entrepreneurial talent and creativity of our students was celebrated at the 2026 Engineers and Scientists in Business Competition Final.
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Fast Immune System-Inspired Hypermutation Operators for Combinatorial Optimization
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The (Un)Suitability of Automatic Evaluation Metrics for Text Simplification
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A privacy-aware reconfigurable authenticated key exchange scheme for secure communication in smart grids
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.