Department of Computer Science - University of Warwick

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Henry Sinclair-Banks successfully defends his PhD thesis Many congratulations to Henry Sinclair-Banks for passing his PhD viva today, which was one of the shortest and best in the long memories of the examiners, Dr Richard Mayr from the University of Edinbu…

Congratulations to everyone receiving their A level results today 🎉 To those who are joining us, , and welcome to Warwick DCS! See you soon!

best_paper_award Six papers co-authored by DIMAP and Theory and Foundations researchers were presented earlier in July at ICALP 2024, the 51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming:

Latest academic promotions We are happy to announce that Dr Florin Ciucu (CS), Dr Long Tran-Thanh (CS) and Dr Paul Jenkins (Statistics and CS) have been promoted to Professor, effective 1st August 2024. Many congratulations to …

Congratulations to all of our students who are graduating today 🎉

We're so proud of what you've achieved! Best wishes for the future!

Upcoming TIA Centre Seminar Series: An Opportunity to Engage with Leading Researchers in Computational Pathology The Tissue Image Analytics (TIA) Centre at the University of Warwick is excited to announce the continuation of its esteemed seminar series for the 2024/25 academic year. These seminars are a prime op…

DCS Summer BBQ The Department of Computer Science celebrated the end of the academic year with a staff BBQ, along with some games of rounders and a tug of war. Thank you everyone for your hard work this year!

Workshop on Future Interface of Computing and Path Wednesday 3rd July 2024 saw 30+ colleagues interested in Artificial Intelligence and Pathology descend on Warwick University’s TIA Centre to hold a workshop. Delegates from a variety of disciplines, …

6 papers accepted to FOCS 2024 Six papers from the Theory and Foundations Research Group and the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications (DIMAP) have been accepted to the 65th IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer …

breakthrough_result_on A recent paper published by Dr. Ian Mertz, a postdoctoral researcher in the Theory and Foundations (FoCS) research group and the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications (DIMAP), has disproved a longstanding conjecture on the limitations of space-bounded computation.For many years it had...

Latest academic promotions We are happy to announce two recent promotions in the department effective from 1 August 2024: Dr Amina Asif has been promoted to Assistant Professor Dr Andrew Hague has been promoted to Associate Pr…

SIGMOD 2024 Test of Time Award for ‘PrivBayes’ The work of Professor Graham Cormode has been recognized with a “test of time” award. The ACM SIGMOD conference presents an award each year for the paper from SIGMOD 10-12 years previously that has ha…

Best Paper Award at IPDPS 2024 Toby Flynn, PhD student in the department's High-Performance and Scientific Computing group, supervised by Prof. Gihan Mudalige together with Dr. Robert Manson-Sawko at IBM Research UK received the b…

Best Thesis Prize awarded for the TIA Centre for the Fifth Time The Tissue Image Analytics (TIA) Centre is delighted to extend its congratulations to Dang Vu for winning the 2024 Best Thesis Prize for the Department of Computer Science. Dang is a former PhD studen…

Seven papers accepted to ICML 2024 Seven papers authored by Computer Science researchers from Warwick have been accepted for publication at the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning, one of the top three global venues for m…

New research shows “profound” link between dietary choices and brain health New research shows “profound” link between dietary choices and brain health New research has highlighted the profound link between dietary choices and brain health.Published in Nature Mental Health, …

Professor Alan Gibbons - (1941 - 2024) We are saddened to learn of the passing of Professor Alan Gibbons. Former colleagues and peers from DCS have put together a few words to celebrate his life and career.

Latest academic promotion We are happy to announce the recent promotion of Arpan Mukhopadhyay to Associate Professor within our department. Many congratulations to Arpan for all his achievements!

New Computer Science programme with the Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics (NURE) The University of Warwick will launch a new Computer Science programme with the Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics (NURE) this September. This announcement coincides with the second anni…

dcs_holds_alumni The first CS-ARC event was hosted in the Ramphal building on March 22nd, seeing alumni from all across the country (and the world, in some cases) coming together to catch up on the latest Department news and share their own journeys since leaving Warwick.

Digitally Empowering Young People: The Podcast “Digitally Empowering Young People: The Podcast” is a ground-breaking podcast series hosted by Dr. Roxanne BibizadehLink opens in a new window. In this inaugural series, we delve into the pressing iss…

Dr. Fanghui Liu on AAAI-24 New Faculty Highlights Dr Fanghui Liu was selected as a speaker in AAAI 2024 New Faculty Highlights Program to present his research on machine learning theory as well as theoretical-oriented applications.

Computer Science Alumni Reunion Conference 2024 The Department of Computer Science is hosting the alumni reunion conference on March 22nd - bringing together current and past students, along with academics and researchers to enjoy a day of talks an…

Protein biomarkers predict dementia 15 years before diagnosis – according to new study In the largest study of its kind, scientists have shown how protein “biomarkers” predict dementia 15 years before diagnosis. The research, published today in Nature Aging, shows how profiles of prote…

MEng e-voting project published in a journal paper As part of a 2021/2022 MEng group project, Horia Druliac, Matthew Bardsley, Chris Riches, and Christian Dunn implemented a fully functional end-to-end (E2E) verifiable online voting system and conduct…

AI tool developed to help grade cancer based on cell divisions Ahead of World Cancer Day on 4 February, scientists are revealing a cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) tool designed to help grade cancer, by analysing cell division. In numerous cancer types, …

Winners of the MSc prizes The department congratulates all 2022-2023 MSc students graduating in January 2024. Extra congratulations to the winners of the following MSc prizes: Luisa F. Estrada Plata: Best dissertation in MSc …