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A mobile phone showing the CognoSpeak logo

Our researchers talk to the Times Higher Education podcast about using AI to streamline dementia diagnosis and improve health equity for patients

Sheffield Researchers, including Prof Heidi Christensen from Computer Science, recently talked to the THE podcast about Cognospeak and how AI is being used to reduce wait times and improve outcomes for people who may be at risk of developing dementia
Placement Year Awards 2024 winner Simone Jain

Celebrating exceptional achievements at the inaugural Placement Year Awards 2024

Computer Science student, Simone Jain, won the Placement Student of the Year Award - Faculty of Engineering. This award was given for her considerable contribution to her host organisation as well as her personal and professional growth over the year
Gavin Litton, the CEO and Co-Founder of Pillars Brewery

From Graduation to Business Success

Gavin Litton graduated from Sheffield with a Computer Science BSc and is now the CEO & Co-founder of Pillars Brewery, a specialist craft lager brewery based in London. Here he shares his Uni experience, early career, business and advice with us.
Team members stand with members of Sheffield City Council

The Centre for Machine Intelligence discusses prospects for future collaboration with Sheffield City Council

The Centre for Machine Intelligence welcomed Sheffield City Council into new office space to showcase research and discuss potential areas of collaboration.
Dr Chen Chen

Computer Science Lecturer Recognised as ELLIS Scholar

Dr. Chen (Cherise) Chen has been recently elected an ELLIS Scholar in the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) under the Robust Machine Learning program.

Nao robots

Prof Roger Moore is on the What Do Robots Sound Like? podcast

Professor Roger Moore, Professor of Spoken Language Processing in the School of Computer Science, speaks to Ali Tocher in this long-form interview on the topic of sound for human-robot interactions.
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).

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.