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Senior Lecturer in Complex Systems Modelling

Job ref: UOS037190

This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Lecturer in Complex Systems Modelling at the University of Sheffield, a world top-100 university. You will join our Complex Systems Modelling Research Group in the Department of Computer Science. This post is supported by a generous start-up package including funds for equipment/travel and a PhD studentship (covering UK tuition fee and stipend for 3.5 years).

Closing date: 7th June. Further information is available here.

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2 June 2023

New AI project unveils open-source models to boost computational music research

Researchers have launched the Multimodal Art Projection (MAP) project to provide high-performance and cost-effective open source models to the computational music research communities, as well as professional and amateur musicians more broadly.

15 May 2023

In Memoriam: Professor Yorick Wilks (1939 - 2023)

Professor Yorick Wilks, one of pioneers of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, passed away peacefully at his home in Oxford on 14 April 2023. He was 83.

4 May 2023

Students test their practical skills with award-winning games developer, Sumo Digital

International games developer Sumo Digital gave students the opportunity to put theory into practice with a ‘takeover’ of the Machines and Intelligence module.

2 May 2023

UK Speech 2023 conference to be held in Sheffield

The flagship annual meeting of the UK and Ireland speech technology research communities is coming to the University of Sheffield this June.

26 April 2023

BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium hailed as a huge success

The BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium made its long-awaited in-person return as over 200 students visited The University of Sheffield to celebrate women and non-binary people in computer science.

24 April 2023

New tracking technology reveals the hidden foraging lives of desert ants

Groundbreaking tracking technology that has revealed new insights into how desert ants navigate their complex worlds could inspire the next generation of smart, efficient robots.

21 April 2023

Women journalists receive abuse "within seconds" from posting online

The Department's Professor Kalina Bontcheva and Dr Diana Maynard feature after helping to develop a new tool to measure the amount of abuse that journalists receive on Twitter.

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What's this? MiRo is lost in the Diamond. Will MiRo find the rest of the robot pack? Watch the video to see MiRo navigate through teaching labs and study spaces.

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