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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.

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School children will be able to program a robotic pet from home with the help of learning resources, tests, and lesson plans for teachers. Credit: Consequential Robotics

Robotics distance learning project could close skills gap and boost economy

A new distance learning project that will enable more people to develop skills in robotics and autonomous systems, to help close the skills gap and drive forward productivity in the UK, is being launched by researchers from our deparment.
Zilico device

Scientists to develop pain-free device to detect oral cancer

A research collaboration has been awarded £1m in funding from SBRI Healthcare – an NHS England initiative – to test and develop a pain-free, non-invasive and instantaneous method to detect oral cancer.

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Chatbots could be used to deliver psychotherapy during Covid-19 and beyond

Chatbots could play a key role in helping people with issues around their health and wellbeing, according to a new study led by Dr Matthew Bennion from the University’s Department of Computer Science.
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Researchers develop Artificial Intelligence to prevent new waves of COVID-19

One of our research students has helped develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) ti predict COVID-19 from standard blood tests two weeks earlier that current, existing tests.

Prof. Roger K. Moore

Congratulations to Prof. Roger K. Moore who has been invited to give one of the INTERSPEECH-2020 tutorials!

INTERSPEECH is the main conference in the spoken language processing field. It is organised by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) and it attracts over 1000 attendees every year.