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Home to world-class experts who conduct ground-breaking research

With our close industry partnerships and Russell Group status, we enjoy strong funding and have recently invested £5m in our facilities. It is the perfect setting for world-class experts to do ground-breaking research.

The 2021 Research Excellence Frame Network rated the Department of Computer Science 5th in the UK for world-leading (4*) research outputs, with 100% of our research environment rated as world-leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*).

Our research themes

  • This theme addresses emerging research challenges in networks and distributed computing, graph theory, scheduling, reachability, and, more recently, the underpinning area of data structures and complexity theory.

  • This theme addresses research challenges in algorithmic game theory and mechanism design.

  • This theme addresses research challenges in autonomous systems, argumentation, and multi-agent systems, and has significantly expanded into machine learning and data mining and its applications in natural language processing, vision, and robotics.

  • This theme addresses research challenges in the logical foundations of computing, automated reasoning, formal verification, and knowledge representation.