Department of Computer Science and Technology

Congratulations to the three members of this Department who have been promoted as Professor - Emily Shuckburgh, Andreas Vlachos and Ian Wassell.

Media organisation The Guardian is today launching Secure Messaging, a confidential way for whistleblowers to contact journalists that builds on technology developed here.

"One of the next frontiers for AI lies in deciphering human-centred data captured by wearable devices," says Dr Dong Ma who joins us in January 2026 as Associate Professor in Wearable Computing.

As part of an ambitious 'Robot Dexterity' programme, Associate Professor Rika Antonova is leading a new project aimed at speeding up how robots learn to be useful, reliable and affordable.

Dr Katie Seaborn will join us in February 2026 as a new Associate Professor in Human-Computer Interaction. She'll to contribute to both our research and our teaching in this area.

Professor Andrew Pitts has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is one of more than 90 new Fellows recognised for their substantial contribution to the advancement of science.

An undergraduate here is among the authors of a new paper on how AI tools can help conservationists quickly access the information they need to tackle the biodiversity crisis.

The UK government has announced measures to drive the commercial adoption of CHERI, the pioneering cybersecurity technology co-developed by researchers here.

An AI 'unicorn' company and the world's first commercial-quality open-source chip were among the winners at our annual Hall of Fame Awards on 23 April, which celebrates the companies and achievements of our alumni and staff.

Tractable has been named Company of the Year and OpenTitan is Product of the Year in our annual Hall of Fame Awards. These celebrate the companies set up by students, staff and alumni of this Department.

Ten years after he completed his own PhD here thanks to a scholarship, alumnus Dr Raoul-Gabriel Urma – a successful EdTech entrepreneur – is giving another students here the same opportunity.

Awards were presented at the end of term to those second-year students judged to have created the most impressive Group Design Projects.

Visitors to our Family Open Day in March saw how a swarm of robots learns to work together, met researchers using AI to improve health care and heard about "the joy, beauty, and creativity of computer science".

At a special event in Cambridge our alumnus, Nobel laureate Sir Demis Hassabis, explored how AI can accelerate scientific discovery and offered glimpses of how the technology might evolve.

At our Cambridge Festival Open Day here on Saturday 22 March, researcher Dr Sam Nallaperuma will be demonstrating how AI and neuroscience can create sleep and relaxation treatments for insomnia sufferers. 

We're getting ready to host the 2025 Oxbridge Women in Computer Science Conference here in Cambridge this May. It's being co-organised by Women@CL, our own Departmental network to support women and non-binary people in computing research.