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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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Researchers have developed a sensor made from ‘frozen smoke’ that uses artificial intelligence techniques to detect formaldehyde in real time at concentrations as low as eight parts per billion, far beyond the sensitivity of most indoor air quality sensors.

Student projects on better ways to write music, improving supply chain resilience and sourcing second hand electronic components were winners of the Group Design Project Awards 2024.

Many congratulations to Nic Lane, Professor of Machine Learning here. He has been awarded a prestigious Chair in Emerging Technologies by the Royal Academy of Engineering for work to make the development of AI more democratic.

The Centre for Doctoral Training in Sensor Technologies at CEB, has received another round of funding as part of the UK Research Institute's (UKRI) billion-pound investment in engineering and physical sciences doctoral training centres.

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The Civil Engineering Division has been successful in its bid for a Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Infrastructure and Built Environment: Unlocking Net Zero (FIBE3 CDT) – building on the strength of its two CDT predecessors FIBE and FIBE2.

Professor Haas will be the Van Eck Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge from 1 April 2024.

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