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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.
Carolina Scarton

“If you tell kids they can’t go on social media, that’s exactly what they will do.”

Dr Carolina Scarton speaks to Sheffield Tribune on the increasing number of children using social media who are being targeted with lies online.
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School of Computer Science awarded funding to build datasets shaping the future of AI

The project builds datasets to stress-test AI’s ability to safely analyze complex charts, tables, and long text within professional fact-checking scenarios.
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ARIA Funding Launches New Innovator Circle in Sheffield

Dr Charles Grellois, Lecturer in Verification at the School of Computer Science, has secured £20,000 in funding from the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA).

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Sheffield scientists sequence over 1,000 Covid-19 genomes to aid pandemic response

Dr Dennis Wang is part of a team who have now produced over 1,000 sequences of the coronavirus genome. The work has been done by scientists and clinicians from the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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Computer Science Supports The Sheffield COVID-19 Genomics Group

The Sheffield COVID-19 Genomics Group are sequencing the genomes of the SARS-CoV-2 virus collected from COVID-19 patients at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals in the hope of better understanding the disease.
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Professor Thomas Hain elected as ISCA Fellow

We are delighted to announce that Professor Thomas Hain has been elected on one of this year's ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) Fellows for 'leadership in the field of automatic speech recognition.'
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New artificial intelligence tools could help tackle online abuse

New tools which could be used to automatically detect and counter abuse on social media, are being developed by researchers in the department
Department collects donations from staff for charities

Department of Computer Science staff donate to two local charities this Christmas.

This year the Department of Computer Science have been collecting donations from staff for two local charities: Sheffield S6 foodbank and Mission Christmas cash for kids.