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EECS academic wins major funding for European ‘rising stars’
A Queen Mary academic has risen to the top of thousands of proposals to win a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant worth €2m as part of the EU’s new R&I programme Horizon Europe.
Date added: Thursday, March 17, 2022
EECS Scientists move one step closer to creating an invisibility cloak
Scientists at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have made an object disappear by using a material with nano-size particles that can enhance specific properties on the object’s surface.
Date added: Friday, July 15, 2016
Queen Mary student team to build robotic wheelchair for Cybathlon 2020
A team of science and engineering students from Queen Mary University of London will design a robotic wheelchair with a plan to compete in Cybathlon 2020 - a global competition for people with disabilities.
Date added: Thursday, May 3, 2018
How do we stop the airways running out of space for wireless technology?
EECS’ Antennas Research Group forms part of “DISTRIBUTE” team winning European Union Horizon Prize for driving innovation in wireless networking.
Date added: Thursday, November 24, 2016
Queen Mary University of London hosted IET FIRST® LEGO® League Tournament
Queen Mary University of London hosted an IET FIRST® LEGO® League Tournament on 25th January 2020. The tournament is the culmination of weeks of preparation, where students have worked in teams to design, build and programme a robot, and create an innovative solution to a real-world problem.
Date added: Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Google DeepMind Scholarships announced for Queen Mary postgraduate students
Leading British artificial intelligence (AI) company Google DeepMind has renewed its support for under-represented students pursuing postgraduate studies at Queen Mary University of London.
Date added: Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Further DeepMind Scholarships to encourage more women and BAME students in AI at Queen Mary
Leading British artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepMind has renewed its support for under-represented students pursuing postgraduate studies in AI at the Institute of Coding (IoC) at Queen Mary, University of London, following the success of its inaugural scholarships for female students in 2019.
Date added: Thursday, June 25, 2020
EECS professor recognised as world-leading engineer by the Institute of Engineering and Technology
Professor Sean Gong, Professor of Visual Computation at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science and Queen Mary Turing Fellow, was recently awarded the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) 2020 Achievement Medal for Vision Engineering.
Date added: Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Institute of Coding launches third year of the Industrial Masters programme for Artificial Intelligence
Queen Mary's involvement with the programme to continue in 2021-2022
Date added: Monday, June 14, 2021
A new study from EECS academics unveils the link between musical preferences and our inner moral compass
A new study, published in PLOS ONE, has uncovered a remarkable connection between individuals' musical preferences and their moral values, shedding new light on the profound influence that music can have on our moral compass.
Date added: Friday, December 8, 2023
Queen Mary Computer Scientists contribute their expertise to new handbook about Teaching Introductory Programming
Two Computer Scientists from the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science were asked to contribute chapters to a new A to Z practical guide for School Teachers.
Date added: Friday, July 31, 2020
EECS PhD student's AI model to predict Eurovision result
Kasia Adamska, a PhD student at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, has developed an AI model that she says can accurately predict which songs will reach the Eurovision final this weekend and ultimately win the contest.
Date added: Friday, May 16, 2025
Celebrating 20 Years of Computer Science for Fun
On Tuesday 06th May 2025, the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science celebrated the 20th anniversary of the world leading public engagement project, Computer Science for Fun (CS4FN) launched in 2005 by Paul Curzon and Peter McOwan, currently funded by EPSRC.
Date added: Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Awards rush for BBC documentary co-presented by our Professor Norman Fenton
The BBC documentary 'Climate change by numbers', co-presented by our very own Professor Norman Fenton has received two separate awards this month.
Date added: Tuesday, December 1, 2015
New AI initiative for school students from Code for Life and Ocado Technology.
Professor Paul Curzon addresses audience at the launch of AI:MMO.
Date added: Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Analysis shows new postgraduate courses are increasing diversity in AI and data science
Admissions data from the UK Office for Students (OfS) shows a diverse range of students have enrolled on to new artificial intelligence (AI) and data science postgraduate conversion courses funded by the government body.
Date added: Monday, November 30, 2020
EECS PhD Students secure joint 2nd place in UK Robotics Thesis Award
Two PhD students from the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University, Nuria Pena Perez and Joshua Brown, have achieved joint 2nd place in the 2023 Best UK PhD Thesis in Robotics competition.
Date added: Friday, October 4, 2024
EECS staff win at the Staff Apprenticeships Awards
EECS's Tanisha Aktar Ahmed and Becky Warne were recognised at the Staff Apprenticeships Awards this February
Date added: Monday, March 11, 2024
C4DM research teaches machines to decipher birdsong
Innovative research looking at the timing and sequence of bird calls could provide new insight into the social interaction that goes on between birds.
Date added: Friday, March 31, 2017
EECS student awarded PhD scholarship from Google
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science postgraduate student, Gabryel Mason-Williams, was the recipient of a Google Europe Students with Disabilities Scholarship
Date added: Thursday, September 21, 2023
EECS to play key role in new UK Multidisciplinary Centre for Neuromorphic Computing
A new national initiative to pioneer brain-inspired, energy-efficient computing technologies has been launched, with Queen Mary University of London playing a crucial role alongside other leading UK institutions.
Date added: Monday, May 12, 2025
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science awarded funding to develop a software defect detection tool with Microsoft, Sky, Bloomberg and TESM
Research into automating software engineering anticipated to have a major impact on the IT industry and beyond.
Date added: Wednesday, October 24, 2018
EECS professor takes up international chair role at Sorbonne, Paris
Professor Pat Healey has been selected for the visiting professor role - international chair for ‘empirical foundations of linguistics’ - which will see him deliver a series of lectures based on the theme of miscommunication.
Date added: Monday, September 7, 2015
QMUL launches new computing magazine for primary school children
Queen Mary University of London (QMUL)’s award-winning outreach project, Computer Science for Fun (cs4fn) launches its free magazine ‘A Bit of cs4fn’, helping teachers teach computer science to primary school children.
Date added: Thursday, June 22, 2017
EECS hosts prestigious international education conference in UK debut
Last week, IEEE’s Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON) 2025 was held at Queen Mary University of London, the first time the conference was held in the UK. This is a flagship event of the IEEE Education Society.
Date added: Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Crab Alert: Hackathon team builds award-winning early warning system for invasive species
Stanley Parker, a third-year Creative Computing student at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, recently took part in Open Sea Lab 4.0, a prestigious international hackathon focused on ocean innovation.
Date added: Monday, April 14, 2025
Engineers at Queen Mary 3D-print protective equipment for COVID-19 NHS workers
The Queen Mary University of London community, including researchers, engineers, clinicians and support staff, have stepped in to assist the NHS with urgent requirements of personal protective equipment (PPE) to combat the outbreak of COVID-19.
Date added: Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Coronavirus lockdown gives a boost to citizen science projects
Participation in citizen science projects has surged in recent weeks as people stay at home to slow the spread of coronavirus.
Date added: Friday, April 10, 2020
Queen Mary University of London partner in Coventry University-led consortium awarded £3.7m for new AI and data science courses
An Institute of Coding (IoC) consortium including Queen Mary University of London and led by Coventry University has been awarded £3.7m in funding from the Office for Students to develop a suite of postgraduate conversion courses in artificial intelligence (AI) and data science. The primary goal of the new conversion courses is to respond to the shortage of data science and AI specialists in the UK.
Date added: Thursday, April 30, 2020
Scholarships for under-represented students in Data Science and AI at Queen Mary University of London in September
Queen Mary University of London has been awarded funding from the UK Office for Students (OfS) as part of an Institute of Coding (IoC) consortium bid to establish scholarships for under-represented students and to develop a new postgraduate conversion course in data science and AI technologies.
Date added: Thursday, June 25, 2020
Nudges fail more often than is reported, experts warn
Research led by Queen Mary University of London has shown that despite the widespread use of behavioural interventions across society, failed interventions are surprisingly common.
Date added: Friday, October 30, 2020
Building blocks of life can form long before stars
An international team of scientists including Dr Sergio Ioppolo in School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science have shown that glycine, the simplest amino acid and an important building block of life, can form under the harsh conditions that govern chemistry in space
Date added: Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Researchers in the School of EECS and other Schools at Queen Mary partner with healthtech startup Living With to help Rheumatoid Arthritis patients
Working with innovative healthtech startup Living With, researchers from Queen Mary University of London are launching a new project that could revolutionize the treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and save the NHS millions every year.
Date added: Monday, November 16, 2020
New analysis shows big boost in numbers of women enrolling on AI and data science courses
New findings from an external evaluation of artificial intelligence (AI) and data science postgraduate conversion courses funded by the Office for Students (OfS) shows a high proportion of enrolments from women, black and disabled students.
Date added: Friday, June 18, 2021
IOT2US lab wins 3rd place in the world-famous IPIN Competition
IoT2US Lab was awarded 3rd place for their Smartphone-based Activity Recognition and Multi-sensor Fusion based Indoor Positioning System.
Date added: Monday, October 14, 2019
EECS researcher wins £2m grant to improve internet management
An EECS researcher has secured a substantial grant of £2m to improve the hubs where independent internet networks can connect directly to one another.
Date added: Monday, July 10, 2017
Next generation of antenna research secured with £1.2m grant
Queen Mary University of London has secured funding of £1.2m to research the next generation of antennas required for mobile communications.
Date added: Friday, October 5, 2018
Computer sketches set to make online shopping much easier
A computer program that recognises sketches pioneered by scientists from the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) could help consumers shop more efficiently.
Date added: Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Can computers do magic?
Magicians could join composers and artists in finding new ideas for their performances by using computers to create new magic effects, according to computer scientists at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).
Date added: Friday, June 10, 2016
Championing women in tech at Queen Mary University of London
On International Women’s Day, Queen Mary is proud to announce a new event that is set to champion, encourage and inspire women to bring their skills to the technology sector.
Date added: Friday, March 8, 2019
Groundbreaking research reveals how the brain turns sound into music
Dr. Iran R. Roman, Lecturer of Artificial Intelligence at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, and a group of external collaborators have revealed a groundbreaking theory explaining how the brain transforms sound into the human experience of music.
Date added: Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Timm Böttger awarded 2016 Brendan Murphy Memorial Young Researcher Prize
EECS PhD student Timm Böttger was awarded the Brendan Murphy Memorial Young Researcher Prize at the 2016 Multi-Service Networks meeting in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. Multi-Service Networks (MSN) is an annual meeting of network researchers. The Brendan Murphy Prize is given for the best presentation and is in memory of Brendan Murphy, an outstanding researcher and mountaineer known to many in the communications and distributed systems research community. Timm received the prize for his talk: A Glimpse at the Internet Ecosystem through the Lens of the large video streaming platform
Date added: Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Coding, computer languages and working life: QMUL students reflect on their Degree Apprenticeship Programme at Goldman Sachs
Students on the Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) Degree Apprenticeship Programme in partnership with Goldman Sachs, talk about their experiences a year on.
Date added: Tuesday, August 22, 2017
EECS academics awarded Turing Fellowships
16 academics from EECS have been awarded prestigious Turing Fellowships, awarded by the Alan Turing Institute.
Date added: Monday, October 4, 2021
EECS researchers uncover the hidden patterns behind a $3.5 billion cryptocurrency collapse
In a new study published in ACM Transactions on the Web, researchers from Queen Mary University of London have unveiled the intricate mechanisms behind one of the most dramatic collapses in the cryptocurrency world: the downfall of the TerraUSD stablecoin and its associated currency, LUNA.
Date added: Friday, April 4, 2025
EECS/SEMS Electronics Society comes third at Unibots 2025
Students from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the School of Engineering and Material Sciences won several prizes at the renowned Unibots UK competition.
Date added: Monday, April 7, 2025
Understanding of forensic science is poor in UK criminal justice system
The level of understanding of forensic science among lawyers, judges, and juries is poor, according to evidence submitted to parliament by a group of researchers from Queen Mary University of London.
Date added: Monday, October 29, 2018
Queen Mary awarded £3m to develop software defined materials
Queen Mary University of London has been awarded approximately £3m to develop software defined materials, which will enable rapid development of future generation communication systems, intelligent technologies and infrastructures including the internet-of-things, security imaging systems and robotics.
Date added: Monday, May 14, 2018
Best Paper Award received at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2018 Spring Conference
Professor Nallanathan’s work on NOMA chosen out of 500 papers for the award.
Date added: Tuesday, July 10, 2018
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science wins Innovate UK grant for Nissan project
Grant to be used to develop and improve the safety and lifetime of Nissan electric car batteries
Date added: Thursday, July 12, 2018
Funding awarded to explore digital platform use in the creative industries in China and the UK
The project aims to help grow and sustain craft businesses, directly benefitting people working in the sector
Date added: Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Music’s changing fast: FAST is changing music
Showcasing the culmination of five years of digital music research, the FAST IMPACt project (Fusing Audio and Semantic Technologies for Intelligent Music Production and Consumption), led by Queen Mary University of London, hosted an invite-only industry day at Abbey Road Studios.
Date added: Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Queen Mary, University of London celebrates 1st birthday with The Institute of Coding
Queen Mary, University of London is celebrating its partnership with the Institute of Coding (IoC). In just 12 months, IoC partners have successfully signed-up over 5,000 people onto its leading tech courses at universities across the country.
Date added: Friday, January 25, 2019
EECS Students place first at the recent ITMB Autumn Challenge 2020 organised by Tech Partnership degrees and sponsored by TechUK.
A group of students from the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer science studying BSc Computer Science with Management (ITMB), have placed first at the recent ITMB Autumn Challenge 2020 organized by Tech Partnership degrees and sponsored by TechUK
Date added: Thursday, December 3, 2020
Electronics Lab Manager wins the Excellence in Teaching Innovation in the Education Excellence Awards 2020
Ho Huen, EECS Electronics Lab Manager, has been awarded the Excellence in Teaching Innovation Award for his re-development of the Electronics Lab for safe use during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Date added: Monday, December 14, 2020
EECS Student Publishes MSc Dissertation in IEEE Internet of Things Journal
EECS MSc student, Yyi Kai Teoh, has published his MSc dissertation in IEEE Internet of Things Journal (Q1 Journal with IF: 9.936).
Date added: Monday, January 25, 2021
Students compete to design game AI agents in annual hack
The 5th Design and Build Hack Week saw over 20 students compete to design and program a game AI agent.
Date added: Monday, March 1, 2021
Scholarships with QuantumBlack, a McKinsey company, are available for postgraduate students at Queen Mary. Applications are open!
As part of a joint initiative with the Office of AI, QuantumBlack, a McKinsey company, is offering to sponsor up to five students to study a Masters in Artificial Intelligence or a related field.
Date added: Monday, May 17, 2021
EECS academic awarded funding to become an ICT public engagement champion
EECS academic Professor Paul Curzon has been awarded £162,000 from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to boost public engagement with ICT.
Date added: Tuesday, April 19, 2022
New DeepMind scholarships launch at Queen Mary to encourage more women in AI
Leading British artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepMind has made a generous gift in support of female graduate students studying AI at Queen Mary, University of London.
Date added: Thursday, October 24, 2019
EECS researcher awarded fellowship to develop a new generation of digital musical instruments
Dr Andrew McPherson has been awarded a Senior Research Fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineering to improve the richness and nuance of digital musical instruments.
Date added: Tuesday, April 13, 2021
C4DM 20th anniversary celebrations
The Centre for Digital Music celebrates its 20th year
Date added: Tuesday, July 11, 2023
Ignite your AI passion: a new summer research intensive placement supported by Google DeepMind Research Ready funding stream
Queen Mary University of London is thrilled to announce the launch of the Research Ready Programme, a transformative initiative designed to empower the next generation of artificial intelligence (AI) talent. This intensive 6-week summer programme, running from June 17th to July 26th, 2024, will equip 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate students from underrepresented groups with the fundamental skills and knowledge to thrive in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Science. Applications open January 22nd, 2024.
Date added: Monday, January 22, 2024
EECS Student Publishes MSc Dissertation in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI)
EECS MSc student, Subramaniam Subramanian Murugesan, has published his MSc dissertation in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (Q1 Journal with IF: 7.7).
Date added: Thursday, February 22, 2024
EECS Teaching London Computing Team Shortlisted for Research and Innovation Award
The EECS Teaching London Computing (TLC) team, renowned for its groundbreaking work in supporting teachers of computing in schools, has been shortlisted in the Impact: Culture, Community, Civic, and Policy category of the 2024 QMUL Research and Innovation Awards.
Date added: Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Queen Mary University of London Ranks Among Top 100 in the world for Computer Science and Information Systems
Queen Mary University of London has secured a prestigious position among the top 100 globally for Computer Science and Information Systems, as revealed in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024.
Date added: Thursday, April 11, 2024
Professor Shalom Lappin to release new book on understanding Artificial Intelligence
We are witnessing a technological revolution fueled by emerging AI systems. From optimistic visions of a world freed from poverty and illness to dire warnings of extinction brought about by robotic agents, public reactions to AI are varied. However, much of the conversation fails to grasp a true understanding of modern AI models.
Date added: Thursday, October 10, 2024
EECS PhD researcher pioneers AI that can "hear": a breakthrough in multimodal generative AI
Researchers at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science have developed a novel approach that enables large language models (LLMs) to “hear” and “understand” sound.
Date added: Thursday, March 20, 2025
Queen Mary University of London Ranks Among Top 100 in the world for Computer Science and Information Systems, and Data Science in AI
Queen Mary University of London has secured a prestigious position among the top 100 globally for Computer Science and Information Systems as well as Data Science in AI, as revealed in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025.
Date added: Wednesday, March 12, 2025
International Women’s Day 2025 – Accelerating change within EECS and beyond
To celebrate International Women’s Day, 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.
Date added: Monday, March 10, 2025
EECS PhD student contributed to the new generative AI model in gameplay creativity
Study led by Microsoft Research introduces World and Human Action Model (WHAM), a cutting-edge generative AI model enhancing creative ideation in game development.
Date added: Wednesday, February 19, 2025
AI Horizons: Exploring diversity, inclusion, and the future of AI in education
The School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University London recently hosted AI Horizons: Honouring Our Journey, Forging the Future, an event dedicated to exploring the transformative power of diverse perspectives in Artificial Intelligence.
Date added: Friday, December 13, 2024
EECS researchers win prestigious AI Benchmark competition
Dr. Marc Roth and Dr. Søren Riis from the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science have emerged as winners in a groundbreaking AI competition organised by Scale AI and the Center for AI Safety.
Date added: Wednesday, February 5, 2025
How to make AI work for the public good
In this article, Professor Maria Liakata, Professor of Natural Language Processing at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, explores the opportunities and challenges associated with the large-scale deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across public services in the UK.
Date added: Thursday, January 23, 2025
EECS celebrates Unesco World Logic Day 2025
On 14th January (the birthday of Alfred Tarski and the death day of Kurt Gödel), the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science organised a series of in-person talks to explore how logic and logical methods are utilised in current research.
Date added: Friday, January 17, 2025
Dr Mona Jaber elected as the IEEE UK and Ireland Section 2025 - 2026 Secretary
Dr Mona Jaber, Senior Lecturer in Internet of Things, has been elected Section Secretary serving for two years at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Date added: Wednesday, January 15, 2025
EECS researchers among the world’s most highly cited for 2024
Researchers from the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science alongside other colleagues across the University have been recognised as Highly Cited Researchers for 2024 by Clarivate.
Date added: Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Dr Michaela MacDonald and QM colleague contribute to the European Audiovisual Observatory report on the video games sector
This November, Dr Michaela MacDonald, Senior Lecturer in Management at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, and Dr Gaetano Dimita, Reader at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, each authored a chapter in the European Audiovisual Observatory's report on the video games sector, titled "Legal Challenges and Market Dynamics in the Video Games Sector."
Date added: Wednesday, November 20, 2024
EECS PhD student sheds light on the role of sound and music in gendered toy marketing
A groundbreaking study from one of our PhD student reveals that the music and soundscapes used in toy commercials are reinforcing rigid gender norms, shaping the way children perceive masculinity and femininity.
Date added: Thursday, November 7, 2024
EECS PhD student develops new testbed for co-simulation of AI-based serverless cloud computing environments
EECS PhD student Muhammed Golec, under the supervision of Professor Steve Uhlig and Dr Sukhpal Singh Gill, leads the CAPTAIN Testbed, a research project that pioneers the integration of Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, and serverless computing to streamline predictive maintenance in industrial settings, which is published in the IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
Date added: Friday, November 1, 2024
Pushing for change: Celebrating the Number 1 Black student in the UK
The School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science is proud to celebrate the achievements of Kwesi Daniel Bimpong, one of our fourth-year degree apprentice in Computer Science at one of the world’s leading investment banking and securities companies, Goldman Sachs.
Date added: Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Unveiling the Magic of Computation: a new book by Paul Curzon and the late Peter McOwan
Magic has always been at the heart of the collaboration between Professor Paul Curzon and the late Professor Peter McOwan.
Date added: Thursday, October 17, 2024
Queen Mary University’s Electronic and Electrical Engineering Programmes achieve prestigious rankings
Queen Mary University of London has secured reputable positions for its Electronic and Electrical Engineering programmes, as revealed in recent UK and US rankings.
Date added: Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Undergraduate students showcase important AI research at Google DeepMind HQ
Empowering the future of AI talent through the Research Ready Programme.
Date added: Monday, September 23, 2024
EECS Student Batul Receives Prestigious Google Scholarship for Students with Disabilities
Batul, a student at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), has been awarded the Google Scholarship for Students with Disabilities (Europe). This prestigious scholarship will provide significant financial support, enabling Batul to focus on their studies during the final year of their Computer Systems Engineering (CSE) programme without the pressure of part-time work. Entering the third year of the programme, Batul is determined to maintain the high standards set in previous years and aims to graduate with a first-class degree. Read the full interview with Batul below:
Date added: Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Dr Michaela MacDonald and Queen Mary colleagues produce report on IP and the Metaverse
This March, Dr Michaela MacDonald, Lecturer in Management in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, and colleagues from the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute (QMIPRI) published a government-commissioned report on IP and the Metaverse.
Date added: Monday, June 17, 2024
EECS MSc Students Developed A New testbed “CloudAIBus” for AI-Based Cloud Computing
EECS MSc Students, Sasidharan Velu and Subramaniam Subramanian Murugesan, have published their new research in Springer Cluster Computing (Q1 Journal with IF: 4.4).
Date added: Friday, June 7, 2024
EECS PhD researcher predicts Eurovision winner
Using a prediction tool, Katarzyna Adamska, a third year PhD student, correctly predicted that Switzerland’s song entry, ‘The Code’, would win this year’s competition
Date added: Thursday, May 30, 2024
Queen Mary project aims to tackle ChatGPT-like systems risks in healthcare and law
Professor Maria Liakata awarded RAI UK keystone grant to address sociotechnical limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs)
Date added: Wednesday, May 8, 2024
AI in Music: EECS begins new research partnerships
EECS's Centre for Digital Music is starting four new collaborative projects to develop new ways to use AI in music.
Date added: Thursday, May 9, 2024
Breakthrough in microplastic detection: Dr SaeJune Park pioneering sensors with future telecommunication technology
EECS Lecturer Dr SaeJune Park is leading an EPSRC funded project on microplastic detection
Date added: Monday, April 29, 2024
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science staff win at Research and Innovation Awards
The School of Electronic Enginering and Computer Science is celebrating after a strong showing at the annual Queen Mary Research and Innovation (R&I) Awards ceremony held at the Barbican Centre yesterday, taking home two awards and named highly commended across other categories.
Date added: Friday, May 3, 2024
PhD student wins at British Powerlifting Championships
Sara Cardinale, a PhD student in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, won a gold medal in the British Equipped Bench Press Championships (U69kg) this February.
Date added: Friday, April 19, 2024
Professor Yang Hao receives 2024 EurAAP Antenna Award for world-leading contributions in wireless
Professor Yang Hao from the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, was honored with the prestigious award at the ceremony held on Monday, March 18th in Glasgow, Scotland.
Date added: Thursday, March 21, 2024
EECS Footballer Aims for World Cup Glory with Pakistan
Imran Kayani, a third-year student at Queen Mary University of London, is poised to represent Pakistan in their upcoming World Cup qualifier against Jordan, the furthest they’ve got in the 75-year history. The 22-year-old is impressively balancing the demands of international football and his academic studies in Computer Science.
Date added: Wednesday, March 20, 2024
The School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science wins first-ever EPSRC grant for training technicians
A £971,000 grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) will fuel the creation of a training hub for microwave and antenna technicians.
Date added: Monday, March 18, 2024
EECS academic awarded Turing Fellowship
EECS lecturer Dr Haim Dubossarsky has joined The Alan Turing Institute as a Turing Fellow
Date added: Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Dr. Yuanwei Liu named Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA)
This January, Dr. Yuanwei Liu, Senior Lecturer in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, was named as an AAIA Fellow
Date added: Tuesday, February 6, 2024
EECS researchers among world's most highly cited researchers
Researchers from the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London have been recognised for ranking in the top 1% by citations in their field for 2023.
Date added: Thursday, December 7, 2023
Ri CHRISTMAS LECTURES to be livestreamed from the Queen Mary, University of London campus
The world-famous CHRISTMAS LECTURES are coming to Tower Hamlets in December, when Queen Mary University of London streams the live filming, direct from the Royal Institution (Ri) theatre in London.
Date added: Friday, November 10, 2023
Early detection of cardiac disease can be achieved by the integration of AI, IoT, and Cloud computing
Using Internet of Things (IoT) devices, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Cloud Computing technologies, a team of researchers led by Queen Mary University of London’s doctoral student Muhammed Golec, and his supervisors Professor Steve Uhlig and Dr. Sukhpal Singh Gill, were able to detect heart disease at an early stage.
Date added: Wednesday, November 29, 2023
EECS PhD students win at the MIDI Innovation Awards
Congratulations to two EECS PhD students, Andrea Martelloni and Max Graf, who have both won MIDI Innovation Awards 2023 in the hardware prototype and software prototype categories, respectively.
Date added: Thursday, October 5, 2023
EECS student honoured at this year’s Student Social Mobility Awards for achievements in Technology
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science student Batul Chehab was selected from hundreds of students in the nation-wide Student Social Mobility Awards
Date added: Thursday, July 20, 2023
Professor Arumugam Nallanathan named one of the world’s most influential researchers
Congratulations to Professor Arumugam Nallanathan, founding head of the Communication Systems Research (CSR) Group and Professor of Wireless Communications in EECS, who has been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers 2022 list from Clarivate.
Date added: Thursday, December 8, 2022
EECS research group part of a consortium awarded £7m to work on future science and technology for the electromagnetic environment
The Antennas & Electromagnetics Research Group, led by Dr Akram Alomainy, Queen Mary University of London’s Deputy Dean for Postgraduate Research in the Faculty of Science and Engineering, is part of a consortium that has recently secured £7m in funding from the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl).
Date added: Monday, December 5, 2022
EECS academic awarded £65,000 to train future power electronics engineers
Date added: Friday, November 11, 2022
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science confirmed as a centre of research excellence in REF 2021
The School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science has excelled in today’s Research Excellence Framework (REF), further solidifying the School’s status as a centre of national and international excellence in research.
Date added: Thursday, May 12, 2022
EECS Academics Explore how COVID-19 has Changed Computer Science Education
EECS and Queen Mary Academy Academics discuss how the global pandemic has forced lecturers and academics to transform how computer science is taught.
Date added: Thursday, January 13, 2022
EECS PhD Student Working with BBC to Segment Media Content Using Artificial Intelligence
Iacopo Ghinassi, a PhD student in EECS, is working on a project with BBC Research and Development to automatically segment media content using Artificial Intelligence.
Date added: Thursday, April 7, 2022
Dr Usman Naeem awarded an Education Excellence Award
Congratulations to Dr Usman Naeem, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in EECS who has been awarded an Education Excellence Award by Queen Mary University of London.
Date added: Sunday, December 19, 2021
EECS Computing courses named the best in the country for social mobility
Queen Mary University of London has been ranked as the country's top university for social mobility according to a new report, which also named EECS Computing courses as the best in the country.
Date added: Wednesday, November 24, 2021
EECS researcher wins over £1million of funding for research project
Congratulations to Massimo Poesio, Professor of Computational Linguistics, who has been awarded £1,016,382 through an EPSRC grant for a new project, entitled ‘Annotating Reference and Coreference in Dialogue Using Conversational Agents in Games’.
Date added: Tuesday, November 23, 2021
Dr Yuanwei Liu named one of the world’s most influential researchers
Congratulations to Dr Yuanwei Liu, Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor from EECS, who has been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers 2021 list from Clarivate.
Date added: Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Dilani Selvanthan nominated as a 2021 IET Young Women Engineer finalist
Congratulations to one of our former students, Dilani Selvanathan who has been nominated as a 2021 Young Woman Engineer (YWE) of the Year finalist from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
Date added: Wednesday, November 10, 2021
A novel robotic interface for walking in virtual reality developed at Queen Mary University
Researchers from the Centre for Advanced Robotics at Queen Mary have developed a novel human-machine interface for walking in Virtual Reality (VR). Their paper describing their system by PhD candidate, Mr Ata Otaran and Dr Ildar Farkhatdinov (Senior Lecturer, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science) was accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions of Visualization and Computer Graphics.
Date added: Tuesday, November 9, 2021
Studying the Effects of Air Pollution on People’s Daily Lives
By using an Internet of Behaviours model, a new study finds quantitative impacts of how air pollution affects people’s activities of daily living (ADL)
Date added: Monday, September 20, 2021
EECS appoints new Director of Wellbeing
The School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science are proud to announce a new role to their management structure, with the appointment of Mahesha Samaratunga as Director of Wellbeing.
Date added: Monday, September 20, 2021
Enterprising success for EECS students
Five students from EECS have been awarded equity-free funding from Queen Mary University for their business ideas.
Date added: Thursday, July 15, 2021
Queen Mary University of London host annual FIRST® LEGO® League Tournament
On Thursday, 24 June 2021 Queen Mary University of London hosted the annual tournament for London (East).
Date added: Monday, June 28, 2021
Mazharia Rahman recognised for her important work in research and innovation
Congratulations to Mazharia Rahman, Finance Assistant in the School of EECS who has been named one of the 101 Jobs That Change the World by UK Research and Innovation.
Date added: Monday, June 28, 2021
Queen Mary students learn how to design, prototype and programme robots at home
Despite COVID-19 restrictions students on the robotics programme at QMUL taught by the School of Engineering and Materials Science, and by the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science were still able to successfully learn how to design, prototype and programme robots.
Date added: Thursday, June 17, 2021
New free issue of CS4FN magazine available for schools
The latest issue of CS4FN, the EECS department's free computing magazine for secondary schools, is back from the printers and heading out to our subscribers in the UK, landing in schools in the next few days
Date added: Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Researchers use AI to reveal hidden properties of materials
Scientists from Queen Mary’s School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science have used an AI Artificial Intelligence (AI) approach to ‘fingerprint’ existing materials and use this information to discover new ones.
Date added: Monday, May 24, 2021
Quantifying COVID-19 Enforced Global Changes in Atmospheric Pollutants using Cloud Computing based Remote Sensing
New research illustrates the improvement in global air quality due to the reduction in human activities during the pandemic.
Date added: Thursday, May 27, 2021
Queen Mary researchers awarded at world-leading ACM Computer-Human Interaction Conference
A group of researchers from the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science of Queen Mary University of London have been awarded an Honourable Mention for their paper.
Date added: Thursday, May 27, 2021
EECS student nominated for a TARGETjobs Undergraduate of the Year Award
Date added: Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Introducing HealthFog, a Smart Healthcare System for the Automatic Diagnosis of Heart Diseases
HealthFog: An Ensemble Deep Learning based Smart Healthcare System for Automatic Diagnosis of Heart Diseases in Integrated Internet of Things (IOT) and Fog Computing Environments
Date added: Thursday, May 6, 2021
Students compete in annual EECS Computer Programming Competition
The winners of the annual EECS Programming Competition were announced on Saturday, 24th April, with over 50 participants taking part in the event.
Date added: Thursday, April 29, 2021
How can AI help European journalists write news in local languages?
EECS researchers are using AI techniques to make it easier for journalists to write news, and for people to access it, in lesser-known European languages.
Date added: Thursday, September 26, 2019
EECS Student Publishes MSc Dissertation in IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine
EECS MSc student, Muhammed Golec, has published his MSc dissertation in IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine (Q1 Journal with IF: 4.016).
Date added: Wednesday, December 16, 2020
EECS PhD Student placed first in the IEEE ICME 3-minute Thesis Competition
Syed Khurram Mahmud, PhD student in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary, placed first at the IEEE International Conference for Multimedia and Exco, 2020.
Date added: Thursday, August 6, 2020
EECS Academic awarded funding for new research project into the development of adaptable and efficient wearable antenna
Dr Akram Alomainy, Reader in Antennas and Applied EM at the Antennas & EM research Group in EECS and Postgraduate Senior Tutor, has recently been awarded £55,000 of funding by Huawei Sweden. He will also be working with Dr Oammer H Abbasi (University of Glasgow) on some aspects of the project.
Date added: Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Queen Mary University of London Academic elected as President-Elect of the Audio Engineering Society.
Joshua Reiss, Professor in Audio Engineering at Queen Mary University of London, has been elected as President-Elect of the Audio Engineering Society.
Date added: Thursday, July 30, 2020
Tata Consultancy Services launches new bursary scheme to support the next generation of computer scientists at Queen Mary
Leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organisation, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has made a generous gift in support of undergraduate students of Computer Science at Queen Mary, University of London.
Date added: Friday, July 31, 2020
International Women in Engineering Day 2020 - Dr Tijana Timotijevic
In celebration of International Women in Engineering Day, 23 June 2020, we spoke to Dr Tijana Timotijevic, Senior Lecturer in Electronic Engineering, about her career and experiences working in the engineering field.
Date added: Tuesday, June 23, 2020
New research reveals privacy risks of Home Security Cameras
An international study, undertaken by Dr Gareth Tyson, Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London and the Chinese Academy of Science, has used data from a major home Internet Protocol (IP) security camera provider to evaluate potential privacy risks for users.
Date added: Monday, July 6, 2020
Centre for Advanced Robotics awarded funding to develop novel safe assistive robots for industry
Dr Ildar Farkhatdinov, Lecturer in Robotics at Queen Mary University of London, has been awarded £466,000 in funding by the EPSRC for a new three year project: Automatic Posture and Balance Support for Supernumerary Robotic Limbs. This project aims to develop unique techniques to address the ergonomics and safety of supernumerary robotic limbs.
Date added: Monday, July 6, 2020
Coronavirus: Queen Mary study suggests more people have had it than previously estimated
Queen Mary researchers Professor Norman Fenton, Professor Martin Neil and Dr Scott Mclachlan from the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, and Dr Magda Osman, from the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, co-wrote an opinion piece for The Conversation on over-confidence in the reporting of Covid-19 statistics.
Date added: Thursday, June 25, 2020
Dr Andrew McPherson discusses his new series of YouTube lectures: C++ Real-Time Audio Programming with Bela
We spoke to Dr Andrew McPherson about his new series of free YouTube lectures: C++ Real-Time Audio Programming with Bela.
Date added: Thursday, May 28, 2020
NHS Test and Trace: is the UK equipped to keep the coronavirus in check?
Dr Scott McLachlan, Postdoctoral Researcher with the Risk and Information Management Research Group at Queen Mary University of London, speaks to The Telegraph about the new NHS Test and Trace programme.
Date added: Friday, May 29, 2020
Professor Arumugam Nallanathan awarded Honorable Mention in AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars
Date added: Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Coronavirus: country comparisons are pointless unless we account for these biases in testing
Professor Norman Fenton, Professor of Computer Science, Professor Martin Neil, Professor of Computer Science and Statistics, and Dr Scott Mclachlan, Postdoctoral Research Assistant, with the School of EECS, along with Dr Magda Osman, Reader in Experimental Psychology, with the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, co-wrote an opinion piece for The Conversation, about the flaws in comparing countries on coronavirus.
Date added: Thursday, April 2, 2020
EECS Professor awarded funding for new multi-disciplinary research project: CHAI Cyber Hygiene in AI enabled domestic life
Pasquale Malacaria, Professor of Computer Science at Queen Mary School of EECS, has been awarded funding by the EPSRC for a multi-disciplinary research project: CHAI Cyber Hygiene in Artificial Intelligence Enabled Domestic Life. This project will identify and address the challenges that are created by AI-enabled domestic environments.
Date added: Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Newly awarded Wellcome Trust-funded PhD Programme open for applications
We are excited to announce that the newly awarded Wellcome Trust-funded ‘Health Data in Practice’ PhD Programme is now open for applications.
Date added: Thursday, February 6, 2020
Professor wins education award for project to make computer science fun
Professor Paul Curzon, professor of computer science in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London has received the 2020 IEEE Computer Society Taylor L. Booth Education Award for outstanding contributions to the rebirth of computer science as a school subject.
Date added: Friday, January 24, 2020
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Summer school teaches cloud computing to Chinese students
Queen Mary University of London has launched its inaugural Summer School, which will see 65 students from Beijing learn cloud computing from university experts over two weeks.
Date added: Monday, July 22, 2019
Queen Mary student wins award at Athena 2019
Queen Mary medical student, Anoushka Sharp, awarded Sparta Global’s ‘best pitch’ prize at Athena 2019, an all-female Hackathon that took place on 13-14 April at Queen Mary.
Date added: Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Queen Mary University of London ranked amongst global elite universities in Computer Science and Engineering and Technology.
QMUL's School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) has risen in the 2019 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings by subject 2019.
Date added: Friday, November 30, 2018
Success at UniCode 2018 for School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science student
Computer Science student beats students from across the UK to win £1,500 in prize money
Date added: Wednesday, November 28, 2018
National award nomination for First LEGO League regional winners
Water Watchers praised for water-saving invention.
Date added: Thursday, June 28, 2018
Students inspired to consider careers in technology thanks to IT Counts
Two schools visit The School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science to participate in IT Counts
Date added: Friday, June 29, 2018
QM technology spin-out beats 1000 businesses to secure major investment
Date added: Monday, June 18, 2012
Local schools to take part in UK engineering challenge at Queen Mary, University of London.
‘The day was an exciting and challenging experience. We had the opportunity to learn so much through having great fun!’ IET Faraday Challenge Day student
Date added: Thursday, May 17, 2018
Showing London a vision of the future at TeenTech City
540 students from 50 different London schools, 80 teachers and 300 tech volunteers gather at the Emirates Stadium for the annual TeenTech City event.
Date added: Thursday, May 10, 2018
ARQ awarded £1m grant to establish robotics centre for tackling nuclear waste
The funding has been given by The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to The Centre for Advanced Robotics @ Queen Mary (ARQ).
Date added: Thursday, November 16, 2017
QMUL to join The Alan Turing Institute
Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) is set to join The Alan Turing Institute as a university partner.
Date added: Tuesday, November 21, 2017
A Royal Handshake with Professor Yang Hao
Professor Yang Hao was invited by the IET as one of the recipients of IET AF Harvey Research Prize to attend the official reopening of IET London: Savoy Place in the presence of HRH The Princess Royal.
Date added: Tuesday, January 31, 2017
‘Exceptional and far-sighted’ Teaching London Computing named in the #EDTECH50.
Date added: Thursday, March 29, 2018
Electronic Engineering competition for 2nd year students - winners announced!
Congratulations to 2nd year students, Hassan Elmasry, Rashid Nkrumah, Jacob Sewell, Salim Alsalami, Saju Mohsin Abedin.
Date added: Thursday, March 22, 2018
Winter Visits to QMUL from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT)
A delegation of staff and students from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) visited Queen Mary to meet with colleagues from the Joint Programme with BUPT (JP) and other QMUL staff in January-March this year.
Date added: Wednesday, March 21, 2018
EECS and Goldman Sachs partner for degree apprenticeship programme
The ‘degree apprenticeship programme’ will allow participants to complete an apprenticeship within Goldman Sachs’ technology division, whilst studying for a degree at QMUL.
Date added: Tuesday, January 26, 2016
120 school children to descend on QMUL for Tomorrow’s Engineers EEP Robotics Challenge
One of 25 regional heats of the Tomorrow’s Engineers EEP Robotics Challenge, which see students involved in 'aviation missions', takes place at QMUL on the 21st February 2018.
Date added: Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Queen Mary and UAL receive grant to co-develop new curriculum model for games design
We have been given a grant, in partnership with London College of Communication (part of the University of the Arts London (UAL)) of £158,354 from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to develop a games design curriculum.
Date added: Wednesday, February 7, 2018
3… 2… 1… LEGO!
We hosted the London (East) tournament of the First Lego League this month for the third year running, welcoming 15 school teams to take part in the competition.
Date added: Sunday, January 21, 2018
Nationwide institute to plug digital skills gap
We are part of a £40 million initiative to create the next generation of digital specialists, announced today in a speech by the UK’s Prime Minister in Davos. Known as the Institute of Coding (IoC), Queen Mary will spearhead the theme of boosting equality and diversity in technology-related education and careers.
Date added: Thursday, January 25, 2018
Di Mainstone and collaborators play Clifton Suspension Bridge like a giant string instrument
Our Artist-in-Residence Di Mainstone has released a new online film which reveals the voice of the Clifton Suspension Bridge for the first time. Using specially created ‘bridge bows’ developed at Bristol’s Pervasive Media Studio with engineers from Arup and students from the University of the West of England, Di’s team have harnessed the low frequency vibrations of the suspension rods, found a way to turn them into music and captured the event on film.
Date added: Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Royal visit highlights EECS collaborations in China
HRH The Princess Royal, Chancellor of the University of London, attended a ceremony to sign an agreement between Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and Hunan University (HNU) on 7 July, during a recent visit to the province.
Date added: Thursday, July 13, 2017
Queen Mary’s Beijing students graduate
Over 450 undergraduates on a pioneering joint programme run by the College with China’s best telecommunications-specialist university received their dual degrees in Beijing.
Date added: Friday, June 28, 2013
EECS cleans up at QMUL Engagement and Enterprise Awards
Members of The School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science won a raft of awards this month at Queen Mary's Engagement and Enterprise Awards
Date added: Wednesday, November 18, 2015
EECS’ PhD Student stand-up robot photo wins national competition
Topby Harris, a PhD student form EECS won the overall prize in a national photo competition with an image of robot that can tailor its stand-up comedy routine in response to the audience’s reaction.
Date added: Monday, March 31, 2014
NSS 2013: CS is ranked joint 6th in UK for student satisfaction
Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London is ranked in the top ten, with an overall student satisfaction rate of 93 per cent, according to the latest results of a nationwide poll of final-year undergraduates.
Date added: Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Facebook buys EECS’ Professor’s startup
Facebook buys EECS' Professor's startup
Date added: Monday, July 22, 2013
Congratulations to EECS Class of 2013
EECS staff and students would like to congratulate all new graduates as they received their degree certificates at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science Graduation Ceremony on Thursday July 18th.
Date added: Friday, July 19, 2013
Cognitive Science Research Group Industrial Collaboration help ease Anxiety and Depression
The Cognitive Science research group have signed a license agreement with a company called IESO Digital Health Ltd. IESO Digital Health provides evidence-based mental health therapy online.
Date added: Monday, May 1, 2017
£2m funding award to QMUL will boost monitoring of chronic medical conditions
Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) is one of eight institutions to receive funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to investigate how wearable devices like sensors and smart-watches can be used to improve our understanding and management of long-term medical conditions.
Date added: Friday, December 9, 2016
QMUL awarded share of £1.7 million HEFCE grant to develop engineering conversion courses
QMUL awarded share of £1.7 million HEFCE grant to develop engineering and computer science conversion courses
Date added: Tuesday, March 15, 2016
EECS’ Professor awarded prestigious European Research Council grant worth €1.5 million
Prof Norman Fenton has been awarded one of the highly sought after European Research Council Advanced Grants, which attracted 2048 Professorial level applicants from all over Europe. His project (which is being funded to the value €1.5 million) is called "Effective Bayesian Modelling with Knowledge before Data (short title "BAYES-KNOWLEDGE") .
Date added: Friday, September 27, 2013
QMUL Antennas & EM in Digital Shoreditch 2013 Festival
The Antennas Group at QMUL had strong presence in Digital Shoreditch 2013 in the summer with special mentions and talks; Dr Akram Alomainy presented at Digital Shoreditch 2013 'Start me up' about turning science fiction to reality including invisibility and Antennas excellent high quality measurement lab had a mention at Digital Shoreditch 2013 as great places for supporting and starting up creative industries.
Date added: Wednesday, July 31, 2013
QMUL’s Engagement and Enterprise Awards 2017
Dr Marcus Pearce and Samantha Duffy won the Inspire Award in the Public Engagement Category at the QMUL's Engagement and Enterprise Awards 2017 for their Steve Reich’s Clapping Music project
Date added: Thursday, March 9, 2017
EECS in the Media - Dr Tim Hospedales featured in New Scientist
Scan your doodles to find the perfect matching photo online A computer program can scan your sketches and search for a photograph that looks just like them which is a step towards a search engine based on drawings, according to computer scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
Date added: Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Second Edition of the Popular and Highly Cited Book on Body-Centric Wireless Communications is Out
The second edition of the highly cited book on Antennas and Propagation for Body-Centric Wireless Communications is now available. The book is edited by Prof. Peter S Hall from University of Birmingham and also Prof. Yang Hao from the Antennas Research Group at QMUL. The second edition also includes contribution chapters by researchers in the Antennas Group including Dr Akram Alomainy.
Date added: Monday, November 26, 2012
School kids solve space missions at EECS robotics challenge
Teams of school students from around the country competed in a robotics challenge involving space missions at an event hosted by the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science.
Date added: Friday, June 17, 2016
Wireless Networks Supporting Rescue Operations in the Lake District
Eliane Bodanese from the EECS Networks Group is leading "Using Wireless Networks to Support First Responders and Resilience in Upland Areas" one of two pilot projects selected for funding by IT as a Utility Network+
Date added: Friday, April 5, 2013
EECS PhD research receives project funding to explore commercial impact
Ammar Lilamwala's PhD work, in the EECS Networks Research Group, has received project funding to investigate potential commercial impact
Date added: Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Interactional Sound and Music (C4DM) at “Design Can Change!” Exhibition, Shenzhen
Nick Bryan-Kinns and two of his PhD students, Ben Bengler and Dave Meckin, have been invited to exhibit their work on interactive sound at the “Design Can Change!” exhibition in Shenzhen, China.
Date added: Tuesday, May 21, 2013
EECS student’s team take the winning spot at IBM’s Best Student Recognition Event 2015
1st year student Balwinder Singh was chosen as one of only five students from UK universities to attend the event held in Amsterdam this month. And after three days of workshops and challenges, his team walked away as winners of the final challenge - to design a solution to reduce food waste.
Date added: Thursday, July 23, 2015
People can hear the difference in high resolution audio, study finds
Listeners can hear a difference between standard audio and better than CD quality, known as high resolution audio, according to a new study from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).
Date added: Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Music transformed by technology at QMUL’s Christmas Lecture
Traditional instruments were transformed by computer science to create sounds previously impossible at the annual Children’s Christmas lecture at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).
Date added: Thursday, December 22, 2016
Professor gives evidence in case of nurse convicted of murdering patients
Queen Mary Professor Norman Fenton was one of four eminent statisticians to submit reports used in evidence to the Criminal Cases Review Commission in Ben Geen's appeal against his conviction.
Date added: Thursday, February 26, 2015
Inspiring the next tech generation @ TeenTech City 2015
TeenTech City 2015 was overwhelmingly successful as 520 year 8 and 9 students buzzed with excitement and intrigue at this year’s event held at the Copper Box Arena in the Olympic Park.
Date added: Monday, December 7, 2015
EECS Student nominated for a National Undergraduate Employability award
EECS UG student Hamza Khan has been nominated for Best Placement Student at the National Undergraduate Employability awards 2017.
Date added: Thursday, February 16, 2017
Lrn2Cre8 Project held its successful sold out Concert at the Vortex Jazz Club
The Lrn2Cre8 Project held its successful sold out Concert at the Vortex Jazz Club in Dalston yesterday evening.
Date added: Thursday, September 29, 2016
EECS PhD Student wins a place at the first Heidelberg Laureate Forum
Date added: Wednesday, May 8, 2013
2013 EECS Research Open Day Poster Competition Winners
Congratulations go to all the PhD students who won prizes for their posters at the EECS Research Open Day
Date added: Monday, April 15, 2013
Gold Medals for Theory Research
The EECS Theory Group had a strong presence at ETAPS
Date added: Thursday, April 17, 2014
Antennas & EM for Telerobotics Research
Dr Akram Alomainy from the Antenna and Electromagnetics Group has teamed up with the Shadow Robot Company to secure funding from the Technology Strategy Board, working on using radio systems and signals for Technologies to Control Advance Telerobotics.
Date added: Thursday, July 25, 2013
Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Secondment: supporting cutting-edge research and teaching
Nick Bryan-Kinns, Senior Lecturer in EECS, has been awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Secondment to work with Togeva to develop lightweight methods and tools to evaluate mobile and social user interfaces.
Date added: Friday, May 10, 2013
Team of QMUL researchers win award for software designed to help visually impaired audio producers
The Design Patterns for Inclusive Collaboration (DePIC) team has won the Award for Best Solution by a Large Organisation at the Connect Ability Challenge event, a software development competition focusing on developing technology that can help improve the lives of people living with physical, social, emotional and cognitive disabilities. The event was organised by AT&T and New York University to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Date added: Wednesday, August 5, 2015
EECS Undergraduates: IBM Business Challenge Semi-Finalists
A team of EECS undergraduates has progressed to the semi-finals of the very competitive IBM University Business Challenge. In this competition students work as a board of directors in a series of simulated companies, making business decisions that affect company performance. The competition is very realistic so has given these students an opportunity to put their knowledge into practice. We wish the team – Edward Gilbert, Manetou Gueye, Xenia Lahodynsky, Fan Wang and Simon Wycliffe – all the best for the live semi-finals early in 2013, with thanks to Dr Paolo Oliva from EECS for supporting students every year in this challenge.
Date added: Thursday, November 29, 2012
Antennas member selected for UK URSI Panel
Dr Akram Alomainy will join the UK URSI Panel in September 2014 - See more at: http://antennas.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/news-events/news/#sthash.CNSu8UI9.dpuf
Date added: Thursday, June 19, 2014
LIREC - Social Robots of the Future Debate
The FP7 LIREC project, coordinated at EECS by Peter McOwan is coming to end and we are throwing a party in London on June 26th from 19.00pm to 22.30pm to reflect on how we might live with robots or digital companions.
Date added: Monday, March 12, 2012
c4dm rocks through the ages at EECS 125th celebration event
Over 100 alumni gathered at Queen Mary, University of London on Saturday 13 April to mark 125 years of electronic and electrical engineering at the College.
Date added: Wednesday, April 24, 2013
New QMUL app uses Twitter comments to give real-time film reviews
A new app, called Reel Reviews, which uses sophisticated computer analysis of comments from users on Twitter to give up-to-the-minute film ratings has been launched just in time for the Oscars.
Date added: Friday, February 20, 2015
EECS research contributing to online security
Researchers from EECS will contribute to the second UK Cyber Research Institute, which focuses on investigating new ways of automatically analysing computer software to reduce its vulnerability to cyber threats.
Date added: Friday, March 29, 2013
EECS student comes up trumps for one-handed musicians
Media and Arts Technology (MAT) student Callum Goddard spent last summer working with The One-handed Musical Instrument Trust (OHMI) towards solving the difficulty of operating the trumpet tuning valves with only one hand.
Date added: Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Antennas PhD Student Wins Award at ‘Engineering Yes 2014’
Miss Miss Nishtha Chopra, a PhD student in the Antennas and Electromagnetics Research Group at the School of Electronic and Computer Engineering was one of the participants of 'Engineering Yes 2014' at which she received an award.
Date added: Thursday, June 19, 2014
Call for Multimodal Grand Challenges 2014
Dr Hatice Gunes is the chair of the ICMI Multimodal Grand Challenges, 12-16 November 2014.
Date added: Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Book chapter on UWB Diversity in Healthcare
Our book chapter on "Antenna Diversity Techniques for Enhanced Ultra-Wideband Body-Centric Wireless Networks in Healthcare" by Qammer H. Abbasi, Akram Alomainy and Yang Hao from Antennas at QMUL to appear in 'Ultra-Wideband and 60 GHz Communications for Biomedical Applications' to be published by Springer in early 2014
Date added: Sunday, November 3, 2013
IET Electronics Letters Founded by Prof. Clarricoats of EECS celebrates its 50th Anniversary
The Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, is celebrating the 50th anniversary of one of its leading publications, Electronics Letters. Please check the following link for further information (http://www.theiet.org/resources/journals/eletters/index.cfm) Prof. Peter Clarricoats of the Antennas Group at QMUL is the founding editor of the publication and has served as an editor for the journal for over 40 years. Please check the following link (http://www.theiet.org/resources/journals/eletters/5001/50-years.cfm), where Prof Clarricoats and Sir Eric Ash talk about how the journal started and also the role it had in changing the field of electronic engineering.
Date added: Thursday, January 9, 2014
New computer program first to recognise sketches more accurately than a human
EECS researchers have built the first computer program that can recognise hand-drawn sketches better than humans.
Date added: Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Arts & Technology Talks
EECS/MAT is launching a series of talks by invited artists who are engaged in technology. The series starts with talks by Alicia Eggert (14 March) and Natalie Jeremijenko (27 March). Details of future talks will be posted on the events pages
Date added: Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Best PhD in Computer Vision
The Sullivan prize for the top UK doctoral thesis in Computer Vision awarded to Marco Palaini, supervised by Lourdes Agapito.
Date added: Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Video Analytics for Audience Measurement in Retail and Digital Signage
Prof Andrea Cavallaro is one of the organisers of the Video Analytics for Audience Measurement in Retail and Digital Signage (VAAM) workshop in conjunction with the 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Stockholm, Sweden, 24 August 2014.
Date added: Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Wearable technology suits you!
QMUL School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science students made a splash at the Wearable Technology Show 2015 this week.
Date added: Thursday, March 12, 2015
Government praises our support for school computing teachers
Minister of State for Schools, Nick Gibb MP, has written to QMUL’s Principal, Professor Simon Gaskell, to thank him for the our contribution to the Network of Teaching Excellence in Computing Science supporting school teachers.
Date added: Wednesday, September 16, 2015
EECS Professor receives prestigious Wolfson Research Merit Award
Professor Mark Sandler was awarded a Wolfson Research Merit Award from the Royal Society this month.
Date added: Thursday, March 12, 2015
EECS hosts Lego League tournament for London schools
School kids from across London competed to solve the world’s ‘Trash’ problems as part of a First Lego League tournament hosted by the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science.
Date added: Monday, January 25, 2016
Professor presents BBC Four documentary
Queen Mary Professor Norman Fenton will be presenting a BBC Four documentary on 02 March 2015, exploring the science behind three key climate change statistics. In a special film for BBC Four, three mathematicians will explore three key statistics linked to climate change.
Date added: Friday, February 20, 2015
QMUL spin-out’s role recognised in award for innovative CCTV solution
A revolutionary solution to reviewing CCTV footage, developed using software from a QMUL spin-out, has won a major security innovation award.
Date added: Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Bayesian networks for Cost, Benefit and Risk Analysis of Agricultural Development Projects
Successful implementation of major projects requires careful management of uncertainty and risk. Yet, uncertainty is rarely effectively calculated when analysing project costs and benefits. In the case of major agricultural and other development projects in Africa this challenge is especially important.
Date added: Wednesday, June 1, 2016
PhD student Siying Wang selected as best student paper at international conference in Brisbane
Second year PhD student Siying Wang fought off competition from a number of other students more advanced in their studies to have her paper selected as the best student paper for ‘Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing’.
Date added: Thursday, April 30, 2015
Royal Society International Exchange Awards 2017
Dr Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, of the Theoretical Computer Science Reserach group, has been awarded a Royal Society international Exchange to work with Reinhard Muskens in the Netherlands
Date added: Friday, May 19, 2017
EECS Students win the Cisco Switch Up competition 2017
Many Congratulations to the overall winner of the Cisco Switch Up Competition, team Hard Air, a group of EECS Computer Science Students
Date added: Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Innovative keyboard backed by C4DM research wins award
The ROLI Seaboard GRAND, a new keyboard instrument and digital controller, was named winner of the 2013 SXSW Music Accelerator competition in Austin, Texas. The Seaboard GRAND was developed from research undertaken by Dr Andrew Robertson and supported by Dr Andrew McPherson, from the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM).
Date added: Thursday, March 21, 2013
EECS Flagship Seminars Series Launch - The women who changed the face of computer science in the UK
EECS Flagship Seminar Series launch event on February 24th will be delivered by the trailblazer Professor Ursula Martin, a woman who changed the face of computer science in the UK
Date added: Thursday, February 4, 2016
BAE collaboration with QUEST
Combination of spatial transformations and composite materials generates interest - See more at: http://antennas.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/news-events/news/#sthash.ATIknuTN.dpuf
Date added: Thursday, June 19, 2014
EECS success at the Tech Partnership North Event 2015
Yet another success for our students at the Tech Partnership North Event 2015
Date added: Friday, December 4, 2015
Record producer awarded Honorary Degree by EECS
Record producer and musician Mr Martyn Ware was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science on Wednesday 18 July by Professor Mark Sandler, Head of EECS
Date added: Sunday, August 12, 2012
PhD student Ben Bengler receives award at 9th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2013
EECS' PhD student Ben Bengler was awarded the first honourable mention for Best Contribution to Creative Communication 2013 at the 9th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2013, Sydney, Australia.
Date added: Friday, July 5, 2013
EECS student wins £5,000 prize for iPhone app project
A Computer Science student from Queen Mary, University of London has received a £5,000 prize for his work in developing a smartphone app for leading property website, Rightmove.
Date added: Monday, July 9, 2012
QMUL Institute of Bioengineering funds Antennas Researcher to work on Nano-communications
The Antennas Group (Dr Akram Alomainy) to work with The Blizard Institute (Prof. Mike Philpott) on theoretical and practical aspects of nano-communication for future healthcare with funding from QMUL Institute of Bioengineering to support a PhD student for 3 years.
Date added: Monday, October 21, 2013
EECS study finds people’s conservative and liberal traits show up in their Twitter vocabulary
A study of nearly a million tweets from over 10,000 Twitter users has found that liberals swear more, conservatives are more likely to talk about religion, and liberals use more individual words like "me" while conservatives opt more for the group-oriented "us".
Date added: Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Queen Mary, University of London joins Russell Group of universities
Queen Mary, University of London has become a member of the Russell Group of universities, with effect from Wednesday 1 August 2012.
Date added: Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Mortimer the drumming robot appears on the Gadget Show
Mortimer the drumming robot, the brainchild of our PhD student Louis McCallum, made an appearance on UK national television this week - on the Gadget Show on Channel 5.
Date added: Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Reaching out to future engineers
Year 8 students combined their design and technical skills at an EECS IET outreach day at Queen Mary.
Date added: Monday, April 14, 2014
Student Design and Build Winners Announced
Congratulations, and a Raspberry PI each, to the students in group 15 for winning the Electronics Engineering 2nd year Design and Build Project, sponsored by the IET and Rapid Electronics
Date added: Friday, March 22, 2013
EECS spin-out wins IET Innovation Prize
Actual Experience Ltd, co-founded by Professor Jonathan Pitts from the EECS Networks Group, won the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s 2012 Information Technology Award. Actual Experience quantifies the human experience of using Internet applications and services. This EECS spin-out is the first company in the world that can automatically create an IT Supply Chain view based on user experience and zoom in, pin point, and help solve IT problems that impacts on staff productivity.
Date added: Thursday, November 29, 2012
EECS in the Media: Prof Geraint Wiggins featured in The Times and The Verge
One of the world’s first live concerts by self-taught silicon composers has shed an uncomfortably bright light on the nature of human creativity at the Vortex Jazz Club in Dalston, East London
Date added: Friday, October 21, 2016
INVISIBILITY CLOAK TO BE UNVEILED WITH NEW RESEARCH
Becoming invisible with the swish of a cloak as in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels could soon be a reality with a £4.5m research project led by Queen Mary, University of London.
Date added: Thursday, October 25, 2012
Queen Mary Student Teaching Awards won by EECS Staff
Congratulations to Richard Kelly who won the QMSU Support Staff Member of the Year Award and Andrew McPherson who won the Postgraduate Teaching Award
Date added: Thursday, March 21, 2013
Electronic and Electrical Engineering jumps 25 places in National Student Survey
Overall student satisfaction in Electronic and Electrical Engineering teaching in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science has increased by 16% in the latest National Student Survey compared to 2014 to 82%.
Date added: Wednesday, August 12, 2015
CMMR 2012 @ EECS featured on BBC
The CMMR symposium hosted by C4DM will feature in a BBC1 documentary on music and emotions, later this year. The BBC filmed the keynote “Hearing with our hearts: psychological perspectives on music and emotions” and musicologists attending the symposium, as part of the BBC’s “Imagine” series.
Date added: Sunday, August 12, 2012
The winning streak continues for our students at the Tech Partnership North Event 2016
At this year’s ITMB North Event EECS’ students demonstrate their tech and business savviness for the third year in a row, winning 1st and 3rd place in the team competitions and 3 individual spot prices from Shell, Sky and SAS.
Date added: Friday, November 25, 2016
New Centre for Advanced Robotics (ARQ) opens
The Centre for Advanced Robotics (ARQ) was established to promote robotics research and teaching at the College level. The center is led by Professor Kaspar Althoefer (EECS + the School Engineering and Material Science). To mark the occasion, the Centre for Advanced Robotics invites you to join the Open Robotics Day and ARQ inauguration on June 29th 2017.
Date added: Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Our Ping Pong Fight Club team announced!
16 teams will face off for the ultimate ping pong challenge this Wed 25 Nov... and the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) will be there...
Date added: Monday, November 23, 2015
Do you know your robin from your wren?
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science researcher Dan Stowell has developed the technology behind a new app that can automatically identify birds through their song.
Date added: Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Participate in QHealth competition with a chance to win £1000
Students at Queen Mary, University of London have the chance to solve problems in healthcare and win £1,000 by using their creative ideas and entrepreneurial skills in a new technology competition!
Date added: Wednesday, June 5, 2013
EECS Theory Group at ETAPS
Five EECS papers at prestigious computer science conference
Date added: Thursday, March 14, 2013
Iron Maiden Rockstar plays the EECS Arduinator
Bruce Dickinson, lead singer of legendary heavy metal group Iron Maiden, became the first rock star to play the EECS Arduinator
Date added: Friday, January 18, 2013
EECS bug-hunting tool wins international software verification competition
A bug hunting tool co-developed by an EECS researcher, Dr Michael Tautschnig, has won a prestigious award.
Date added: Tuesday, May 9, 2017
C4DM is seeking older music listeners for a paid study
Marcus Pearce, EECS lecturer in Sound and Music Processing, is looking for volunteers to rate music.
Date added: Wednesday, July 10, 2013
QMUL students win European virtual reality tech clash
A group of QMUL students won a Europe-wide tech clash with their idea to create a collaborative virtual reality platform for education.
Date added: Friday, January 6, 2017
Art Rock Album features EECS Magnetic Resonator Piano
The latest album by "These New Puritans" features the Magnetic Resonator Piano developed by Andrew McPherson from the Centre for Digital Music
Date added: Friday, June 21, 2013
Research showcase 2015
Researchers from QMUL’s School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) presented some their research to colleagues and visitors at the Mile End Campus.
Date added: Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medals for UK’s brightest up-and-coming tech entrepreneurs
Professor Dino Distefano has today been awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal for his contribution to society.
Date added: Wednesday, April 23, 2014
First International Workshop on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics (ACVR 2013)
First International Workshop on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics (ACVR 2013)
Date added: Wednesday, March 19, 2014
What are you actually saying? Conversation analysts will be zooming in at New Scientist Live 2016
Do you realise what you are saying when you talk during a conversation? EECS' Cognitive Scientist, Saul Albert, and a team of interaction scientists from the UK will be zooming in on conversations at New Scientist Live in London’s Excel Centre this week.
Date added: Monday, September 19, 2016
TouchKeys:multi-touch sensing keyboard
A new keyboard overlay developed by Andrew McPherson from C4DM allows performers to bend pitch, create vibrato and experiment with a range of musical techniques not associated with standard keyboards.
Date added: Monday, July 15, 2013
C4DM PhD Student elected Vice-Chair of the Audio Engineering Society’s Student Delegate Assembly
Congratulations to Brecht De Man, C4DM PhD Student, who was recently elected Vice-Chair of the Audio Engineering Society's Student Delegate Assembly.
Date added: Thursday, May 1, 2014
Beijing EECS students come to London
Students from the Joint Programme (JP) between QM and the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) are visiting London this summer
Date added: Tuesday, July 30, 2013
EECS Student Prizes
Congratulations to all our prize-winning students, taking computer science, electronic engineering degrees in London or on our Joint Programme in Beijing:
Date added: Monday, July 15, 2013
First evolutionary history of 50 years of music charts using big data analysis of sounds
Our computer scientists have come together with evolutionary biologists to study the evolution of pop music. Their analysis of 17,000 songs from the US Billboard Hot 100 charts, 1960 to 2010, is the most substantial scientific study of the history of popular music to date.
Date added: Monday, May 11, 2015
Magic of Computer Science Christmas lecture 2015
On 2nd December 2015, the Magic of Computer Science Christmas lecture hosted by the East London Network, given by Professor Paul Curzon of Queen Mary University of London was truly magical!
Date added: Thursday, December 17, 2015
The Universal Heartbeat: EECS Art Project
Stop-motion animation of a heartbeat in an installation created by Fabrizio Smeraldi of the Risk and Information Group and visual artist Beata Maria Rzepecka
Date added: Wednesday, July 17, 2013
QMUL in Motion - Antennas Group collaboration with The William Harvey Institue at QMUL
The Antennas group (Dr Akram Alomainy) co-organised an exciting event on Motion research, education and industrial applications at QMUL. Attendance was great and the day was very interactive and resulted in many collaborations and potentially a new degree programme in the making.
Date added: Thursday, September 5, 2013