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PhD student Sara AlMahri has been announced as the winner of the 2024 Parmee Prize for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise – awarded for her start-up Revco – alongside co-founder Thomas Barber.

A Livery Company celebrating 400 years of history is honouring a student researching cutting-edge cybersecurity technology.

Alex Routh, Professor of Colloid Science at CEB, has been awarded the 2025 Thomas Graham Lecture by the RSC & SCI

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Students and early-career professionals of all disciplines are encouraged to apply to the Falling Walls Lab Cambridge – an international competition that challenges you to showcase a breakthrough that positively impacts science and society, in just three minutes.

Meet our new Planetary Computing Fellows who, thanks to philanthropic support, are working on harnessing the power of computer science to tackle the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss.

Members of the Institute for Manufacturing's (IfM) Centre for Industrial Sustainability, explore the crucial importance of making industrial resources more visible. 

Researchers behind the development and deployment of an AI vision-based monitoring tool – used to track social distancing decisions in London during the COVID-19 pandemic – have accepted the Wilkes Award 2024 for “best paper” published in The Computer Journal.

Arm has been named Company of the Year in our annual Hall of Fame Awards — a celebration of the companies set up by students, staff and alumni of this Department.

An expert on the environmental impacts of aviation, Barrett joins the University of Cambridge from MIT.

Stellar speakers and a growing recogntion that Theoretical Computer Science has relevance far beyond its own discipline made the inaugural Cambridge Algorithms and Complexity Workshop this week a great success.

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the names of 255 outstanding research leaders to be awarded ERC Advanced Grants. The funding is amongst the EU’s most prestigious and competitive, providing leading senior researchers with the opportunity to pursue ambitious, curiosity-driven projects that could lead to major scientific breakthroughs. The new grants, worth in total nearly €652 million, are part of the EU’s Horizon Europe programme. 

A new project involving Cambridge researchers aims to challenge existing “wasteful” practices in the design and production of cricket gear – and help preserve and grow the UK cottage industry supporting it.

Juyeon Heo is a third-year PhD student at the University of Cambridge supervised by Adrian Weller. Her research aims to build trustworthy AI in healthcare, focusing on the generalisability and interpretability of Deep Neural Networks and Large Language Models.

Professor Róisín Owens & Assistant Professor Alexander Borodavka have been awarded the AstraZeneca Prize and the Colworth Medal, respectively

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Professor Ross Anderson FRS FRSE FREng, our friend and longtime colleague, died unexpectedly at home on Thursday 28th March, aged 67.

PhD students Teja Potočnik and David Hardman showcased their engineering research at Parliament to a range of politicians and a panel of expert judges, as part of the STEM for BRITAIN poster competition.

Every year, over 5 million people die from traumatic injuries worldwide, highlighting the urgent need for advancements in trauma care. To address this critical issue, the GOAL-Trauma study, being run from the International Health Systems Group in the Department of Engineering, is looking for collaborators from hospitals around the world to assess trauma care.

A number of Cambridge engineers have secured funding for various research projects focused on decarbonisation and low carbon energy.

The Clinician Engineer Hub hosted an international student to meet faculty specialising in biomedical engineering research.

Dr.Devon Indar, Dr.Alexander Borodavka, and Dr. Shelly Singh-Gryzbon all joined the Department in the last six months

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