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Home to world-class experts who conduct 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*).

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 Ashton Building

 

Our four main research themes are below:

 

Algorithms and Networks

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.

Economics and Computation

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

Artificial Intelligence

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.

Logical methods in Computer Science

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