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An illustration of protein molecules
An illustration of protein molecules. Credit: Getty

AI could accelerate protein engineering – key for developing new medicines

An AI approach developed by researchers from the University of Sheffield and AstraZeneca, could make it easier to design proteins needed for new treatments.
Dr Zheng Yuan

A warm welcome to Dr Zheng Yuan who joins the School of Computer Science

Dr Zheng Yuan joins us in her role as Senior Lecturer in Natural Language Processing.
The 25th Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science (MGS 25) in Sheffield

School of Computer Science hosts the 25th Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science (MGS 25)

The event was hosted here at the University of Sheffield between 7 and 11 April 2025.
Swagato Sanyal

Meet our new Lecturer in Algorithms: Dr Swagato Sanyal

We are delighted to be welcoming Dr Swagato to the School of Computer Science.

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Fast Immune System-Inspired Hypermutation Operators for Combinatorial Optimization
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The (Un)Suitability of Automatic Evaluation Metrics for Text Simplification
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A privacy-aware reconfigurable authenticated key exchange scheme for secure communication in smart grids
Student winners

Sheffield Team win the Engineers in Business Innovation Competition

Computer Science student, Chelsie Edun is part of a team of engineering students who have won first prize in the final of the Engineers in Business Champion of Champions innovation competition - ‘big ideas’ category.

Sheffield engineers reach final of $10m global avatar competition

Researchers from the Department of Computer Science are through to the final of a major global competition to develop an avatar system that can transport human presence to a remote location instantly.