👏 Big congratulations to Dr George Fazekas on receiving a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 2025! His work at the intersection of music, AI & audio engineering continues to push boundaries. Read more: www.raeng.org.uk/news/leverhu... #LeverhulmeFellowship #QueenMary #ResearchExcellence

AIMLA 2025 at Queen Mary brought 270+ audio AI experts together for talks, demos, tutorials & jams. Papers are open access via AES Library. Read more here: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an... 🎶

🕹️EECS' Game AI Group celebrates multiple successes at the IEEE Conference on Games 2025: - Best Paper Award win - 5 papers published - Outstanding Contribution Award for Prof. Simon Lucas Read more here: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

Celebrating innovation in education: Dr Usman Naeem & Dr Vindya Wijeratne are leading a university wide project to transform student engagement with learning analytics: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

Computer Science at Sea We think of computers and electronics generally as machines that must stay dry (not least because you can electrocute yourself ...don't do this at home!) but there are lots of ways that computer science is of help at, on, watching over or under the sea... cs4fn.blog/the-sea/

How can research culture better support neurodivergent minds? Join us next Wednesday for the MINDS: Neurodivergence in Research workshop — a space to rethink inclusion in academia, learn from lived experiences, and build more supportive systems. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/minds-neur...

How can digital twins help make our infrastructure more resilient? EECS recently hosted a workshop bringing together researchers, industry, and policy experts to explore the future of digital twinning - from smart cities to data ethics. Read more: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

We’ve launched a new set of cartoon-style Computer Science Heroes posters to help young kids see diverse role models in tech! Made by the CS4FN team, illustrated by Richard Butterworth & supported by EPSRC. UK educators can get a free printed set or download them: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

EECS hosted a GenAI Competency Workshop on 17 June, bringing educators together from @qmulsems.bsky.social, @qmulspcs.bsky.social, and joint programmes in Beijing, Hainan and Nanchang, to explore how generative #AI can support teaching. Read more: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

Queen Mary has risen 35 places in two years in the QS league table. We’re now ranked 110th in the world according to QS, and for the second year, a top 100 university globally and top 10 in the UK by @usnews.com Learn more: www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2...

Queen Mary just hosted the world’s first Mirokai Robot Hackathon! 50+ students, 2 days, unlimited creativity - powered by Enchanted Tools’ Mirokai robot. Organised by EECs & @robohack.bsky.social. Find out more: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

Congrats to our PhD student Nirit Bintamini Ben-Meir for winning Best Paper at the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference! Her moss terrarium study uncovers 5 cultures of plant care - redefining how we live with houseplants. Read more: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

QMUL has a new Artificial Intelligence (Conversion) MSc* in the EECS @qmuleecs.bsky.social department, which is aimed at those without a STEM background. Seems like a great idea www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate... *subject to approval

New MSc in AI at Queen Mary University welcomes non-STEM grads into the world of Artificial Intelligence! Designed for those from humanities, arts & social sciences, this conversion course opens doors to tech careers and helps diversify the AI workforce. Find out more: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

🎙️ C4DM Seminar- Speech and Music AI: Connecting the Dots of AI and Human Potential 📅 Tue, 24 June 2025 | 🕚 11:00 AM BST 📍 GC201, Graduate Centre, Mile End Campus, QMUL 🔗More info and registration: www.c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/news/2025-06... #AI #MusicAI #Neuroscience

Computing for all, by all - TODAY June 3 2009 Peter Landin died LGBTQ+ campaigner. Proponent of equal rights for all. Massive contribution to programming and semantics via models in lambda calculus Professor of CS at @qmuleecs.bsky.social cs4fn.blog/2025/02/08/p... #ComputingByAllForAll #PrideMonth

Big news, Marcus Pearce’s new book 'Learning to Listen, Listening to Learn' is out this Thursday! Don’t miss the upcoming launch event, where Marcus will be joined by Shalom Lappin - whose own book is set to come out this year: global.oup.com/academic/pro... @oupacademic.bsky.social

Yesterday we ran a PhD public engagement training workshop attended by students from science & eng., medicine, arts & humanities. The participants came up with great ideas & feedback was good. Thanks to Daniel Gill for the idea and organsing it with @jobrodie.bsky.social @qmuleecs.bsky.social

CS4FN turns 20 and we celebrated in style at QMUL! It was a packed event with live magic, AI ethics games, and inspiring talks about making computing accessible and fun for all. Dive into the highlights of two decades of creative CS outreach: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an... @cs4fn.bsky.social

Annie Easley: putting rockets into space. A pioneer at NASA, a human computer then a programmer, involved in computer simulation, hybrid battery technology, alternative fuel & the Centaur rocket (a mainstay of satellite / probe launches) Find out more on the CS4FN blog cs4fn.blog/2025/04/26/a...

It is the Computer Science for Fun (CS4FN) project's 20th anniversary. I am gradually writing our impact story. Read about it here: cs4fn.blog/impact/ @qmuleecs.bsky.social Here are some highlights ...

📚 Book launch alert! Join us on 16 June at Queen Mary University of London for the launch of new works by Prof. Marcus Pearce and Shalom Lappin. Presentations, Q&A, and a wine reception await!​ Book your place here: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

This year, for the first time, #IEEE #EDUCON is being held in the UK! And we’re so proud that it’s being hosted at Queen Mary educon-conference.org As the conference kicks off, hear from its chair Usman Naeem about this year’s themes and aims. @qmuleecs.bsky.social @qmulse.bsky.social

Excited to welcoming delegates to a sold out #EduCon2025 ("The IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (IEEE EDUCON)") from IEEE hosted at @qmul.ac.uk with fellow volunteers from @qmuleecs.bsky.social :) 2025.ieee-educon.org

Happy birthday to @qmul.ac.uk's and @qmuleecs.bsky.social's computing outreach project @cs4fn.bsky.social. Co-founded by Paul Curzon & the late Peter McOwan 'Computer Science For Fun' has been inspiring children, teenagers, teachers & university students for 20 years! cs4fn.blog/cs4fn-20th-b...

A Sea Hero Quest to understand our navigation skills How a video game is helping researchers understand our navigation skills providing hundreds of years worth of navigation data. cs4fn.blog/2025/04/13/a...

Congratulations to Stanley Parker, a student from EECS who just helped build a blue crab tracking system and won a prize at Open Sea Lab 4.0! Their team used Python, R, and open marine datasets to prototype a tool for early warnings on invasive species: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

🎵How does your brain turn sound into music? Dr Iran Roman from EECS used AI and brain scans to decode how we process pitch, timbre, and rhythm. Read more: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

✨ Got a cool STEM tabletop activity? Queen Mary wants YOU at the Lambeth Country Show or New Scientist Live. Fun. Hands-on. Conversation-starting. Apply by 22 April 🗓️ 👉 bit.ly/4240yK6 @qmuleecs.bsky.social @qmulspcs.bsky.social @qmulmaths.bsky.social

🚨 A group of researchers just mapped out how the $3.5B Terra/LUNA crypto collapse may have been triggered by a handful of coordinated traders. Dr Richard Clegg and his team used cutting-edge graph analysis to reveal patterns hidden in plain sight: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

Day 4 of our special whimsical series to celebrate April Language-mangling rude word filters What could possibly go wrong with find and replace? cs4fn.blog/2025/04/04/l...

I'm (not) a little teapot The history of the Utah Teapot, the most important teapot in computer graphics history. cs4fn.blog/2025/04/02/i...

Broadband, by carrier pigeon Ways birds have been used to transmit data in competition with computer networks ... cs4fn.blog/2025/04/01/b...

Daniel Gill and Ekaterina Ivanova from EECS have launched Minds (Mutual Inclusion through Neurodiversity in Science), a new Neurodiversity in Science Network dedicated to supporting and celebrating neurodivergent researchers. Read the interview here: equalities.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/2025/03/24/a...

Come celebrate the 20 years celebration of The Computer Science for Fun Project! More info and (free) ticket here: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an... @cs4fn.bsky.social

Maja Pavlovic's path from data science to pursuing a PhD in Natural Language Processing at Queen Mary University showcases resilience and passion. Read about her experiences and insights here: lnkd.in/gxhzSbRT

This morning's @qmul.ac.uk / Royal Institution #RiMasterclasses in Computer Science are taking place in our very photogenic Electronics Lab. We are 'Hacking the Grid' with Dr Tijana Timotijevic, Senior Lecturer at @qmuleecs.bsky.social. Students learning abt Ohm's Law, & not electrocuting themselves

Exciting research update! EECS PhD students have developed a novel approach that enables large language models (LLMs) to “hear” and “understand” sound - a breakthrough in multimodal generative #AI: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

Yesterday the first joined meeting of the WHEN network took place in our Mile End Campus with the involvement of the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science and the School of Biological and Behavioural Science @qmuleecs.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk #WHENetwork #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

Data representation is an important part of computer science. How you represent numbers makes calculation algorithms easy or hard. So how did the Ancient Egyptians do it? And what calculations could they easily do as a result? cs4fn.blog/2025/03/20/a...

Join us this August for TIME 2025, the 32nd International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning, at Queen Mary University. Come connect and discuss the research on the latest advances in temporal and spatial reasoning: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

For Week 3 of the #RiMasterclasses @qmul.ac.uk and @qmuleecs.bsky.social we have Paul Curzon (@cs4fn.bsky.social) doing an unplugged Computer Science Masterclass for teenagers. This involves playing a game of hexapawn (bit like noughts and crosses) with a computer made of Starburst sweets.

We are thrilled to share that Queen Mary ranks among Top 100 in the world for both Computer Science and Information Systems, and Data Science in AI! Find out more here: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

This #IWD, we’re shining a light on women in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science who have been accelerating change through their groundbreaking research, initiatives, and ambitions: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

For Week 2 of the #RiMasterclasses in Computer Science at QMUL / @qmuleecs.bsky.social Dr Paulo Oliva is showing the group how HTML, CSS and JavaScript make text and images appear, appear nicely, and function in web development. Some photos of the class projects.

Today is Week One of the 6-wk @qmuleecs.bsky.social Royal Inst Masterclasses in Computer Science @qmul.ac.uk We (~20 fourteen year olds) are popping balloons for science, recording the sound, manipulating it & basically pretending to be sound designers :) github.com/iranroman/RI... #RiMasterclasses

#DIVERSITY Day by Day-TODAY Feb 28 2002 Mary Coombs died A QMUL French, History alumni,she was the first female commercial programmer working for J Lyons & Co programming their Leo computer in the 1950s including payroll for their chain of tea shops. cs4fn.blog/2022/06/17/m... @qmuleecs.bsky.social

What is next for Risk and Decision-Making (for Data Science and AI)? Dr Michael Schlichtkrull shares his insights on the module he teaches and gives advice to anyone considering a degree in #AI and Data Science: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/postgra...

Prof. Shalom Lapin from EECS recently took part in a panel exploring the role of the social sciences, humanities and the arts in delivering evidence, methods and insights that can help ensure AI policies are aligned with the public interest. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s1v...

Turing AI Fellowship Showcase & AdSoLve Co-Creation Workshop: join us on March 6th for a showcase event with presentations from Prof. Liakata's Turing AI fellowship team and a workshop themed around mental health: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/turing-ai-...