Research Institutes and Groups
We are a leading international centre for computing research, in the top-10 of UK computer science departments, as confirmed by the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) which rated an impressive 80% of staff as internationally excellent or World leading (3* or 4*). Research ranges from breakthrough results in the theoretical foundations of computer science through to highly applied computational modelling and systems engineering, carried out in collaboration with leading companies.
Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Biological Systems
The I-AIBS is pioneering an integrative and broadly-based study of intelligent systems building on our internationally recognised research streams on learning in video analysis, corpus-based language studies, qualitative reasoning about space and time, and investigations into computational mechanisms in biological cells and organisms. The research ranges from fundamental work through to applied studies in collaboration with many industrial and public organisations, and interdisciplinary research with, for example, psychology and neuroscience.The Institute houses Biosystems, Computer Vision, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Medical Imaging, Natural Language Processing, Scheduling and Constraints.
Institute for Computational and Systems Science
The I-CSS develops fundamental principles and practical methods
for problems that are computationally challenging and/or require
unusual kinds of computing resource. Our work spans fundamental
work on algorithms and their complexity, high-performance
numerical methods in scientific computing, architectures for
highly distributed fault-tolerant grid computing, web technologies
for collaborative computing, and interface and programming
technologies for visual computing. The institute builds on our
international reputation in this field, and our collaborations
with industrial partners including Shell, BAE Systems, and NAG.
The Institute houses
Algorithms and Complexity,
Distributed Systems and Services,
Scientific Computation,
Visualization and Virtual Reality,
Web Science
Over the past seven years, the School has attracted grants from each of the seven UK Research Councils, government departments, the European Union and many industrial sources. The School is home to a large community of research staff and students, with over 30 research staff and 70 research students working as groups within dedicated research laboratories. Groups are led by senior staff who are internationally recognised leaders in their field, and each one runs an active series of research meetings and seminars.
Interested in joining us as a research student or research associate? See our online information about postgraduate study and research positions.