QMUL School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science

MINDS: Neurodivergence in Research Workshop Join us for our workshop on neurodivergent inclusion in research at MINDS - hear from neurodivergent people and academics!

How can research culture better support neurodivergent minds? Join us next Wednesday for the MINDS: Neurodivergence in Research workshop — a space to rethink inclusion in academia, learn from lived experiences, and build more supportive systems. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/minds-neur...

EECS workshop explores future of digital twinning for infrastructure resilience

How can digital twins help make our infrastructure more resilient? EECS recently hosted a workshop bringing together researchers, industry, and policy experts to explore the future of digital twinning - from smart cities to data ethics.
Read more: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

We’ve launched a new set of cartoon-style Computer Science Heroes posters to help young kids see diverse role models in tech! Made by the CS4FN team, illustrated by Richard Butterworth & supported by EPSRC. UK educators can get a free printed set or download them: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

QMUL Hosts GenAI Workshop for Educators in Science and Engineering

EECS hosted a GenAI Competency Workshop on 17 June, bringing educators together from @qmulsems.bsky.social, @qmulspcs.bsky.social, and joint programmes in Beijing, Hainan and Nanchang, to explore how generative #AI can support teaching. Read more: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

Blue background with picture of the Queen's Building at Queen Mary University of London, and yellow text which reads 'Up 35 places since 2024, now ranked 110th in the world'. Also white Queen Mary logo and Russel Group logo.

Queen Mary has risen 35 places in two years in the QS league table.

We’re now ranked 110th in the world according to QS, and for the second year, a top 100 university globally and top 10 in the UK by @usnews.com

Learn more: www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2...

EECS hosts the world’s first ever Mirokai robot hackathon

Queen Mary just hosted the world’s first Mirokai Robot Hackathon! 50+ students, 2 days, unlimited creativity - powered by Enchanted Tools’ Mirokai robot. Organised by EECs & @robohack.bsky.social. Find out more: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

EECS PhD student wins Best Paper award at prestigious conference

Congrats to our PhD student Nirit Bintamini Ben-Meir for winning Best Paper at the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference! Her moss terrarium study uncovers 5 cultures of plant care - redefining how we live with houseplants. Read more: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

Image showing a purple background with some sparkly bits for an artificial intelligence vibe alongside text saying the name of the course and that it's part of Computer and Data Science.

QMUL has a new Artificial Intelligence (Conversion) MSc* in the EECS @qmuleecs.bsky.social department, which is aimed at those without a STEM background. Seems like a great idea www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate...
*subject to approval

Queen Mary University launches conversion MSc to help non-STEM graduates enter AI field

New MSc in AI at Queen Mary University welcomes non-STEM grads into the world of Artificial Intelligence! Designed for those from humanities, arts & social sciences, this conversion course opens doors to tech careers and helps diversify the AI workforce. Find out more: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

by nicolaus625 — Tuesday, 24 June 2025

🎙️ C4DM Seminar- Speech and Music AI: Connecting the Dots of AI and Human Potential
📅 Tue, 24 June 2025 | 🕚 11:00 AM BST
📍 GC201, Graduate Centre, Mile End Campus, QMUL
🔗More info and registration: www.c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/news/2025-06...
#AI #MusicAI #Neuroscience

Peter Landin: Elegance from Logic Celebrating LGBTQ+ Greats Thousands of programming languages have been invented in the many decades since the first. But what makes a good language? A key idea behind language design is that they s…

Computing for all, by all - TODAY
June 3 2009
Peter Landin died
LGBTQ+ campaigner. Proponent of equal rights for all.
Massive contribution to programming and semantics via models in lambda calculus
Professor of CS at @qmuleecs.bsky.social
cs4fn.blog/2025/02/08/p...
#ComputingByAllForAll
#PrideMonth

Big news, Marcus Pearce’s new book 'Learning to Listen, Listening to Learn' is out this Thursday! Don’t miss the upcoming launch event, where Marcus will be joined by Shalom Lappin - whose own book is set to come out this year: global.oup.com/academic/pro... @oupacademic.bsky.social

Yesterday we ran a PhD public engagement training workshop attended by students from science & eng., medicine, arts & humanities. The participants came up with great ideas & feedback was good.
Thanks to Daniel Gill for the idea and organsing it with @jobrodie.bsky.social
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Celebrating 20 Years of Computer Science for Fun

CS4FN turns 20 and we celebrated in style at QMUL! It was a packed event with live magic, AI ethics games, and inspiring talks about making computing accessible and fun for all. Dive into the highlights of two decades of creative CS outreach:
www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an... @cs4fn.bsky.social

Annie Easley: putting rockets into space Annie Easley. NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Annie Easley was a pioneer both as a computer programmer but also as a champion of women and minorities into computer science. She went from…

Annie Easley: putting rockets into space.
A pioneer at NASA, a human computer then a programmer, involved in computer simulation, hybrid battery technology, alternative fuel & the Centaur rocket (a mainstay of satellite / probe launches)
Find out more on the CS4FN blog
cs4fn.blog/2025/04/26/a...

The impact of CS4FN over 20 years • "Contributed to the rebirth of Computer Science as a school subject” • given talks to tens of thousands of students with positive feedback from students and teachers • given CPD talks to thousands of teachers, to help support them teaching Computing. • created long-lasting novel educational resources, including educational activities and posters. • Our resources are used globally • supported wide ranging research projects • kickstarted then supported the massive increase in those taking CS at university • contributed to policy change in the school curriculum to include CS • contributed to the UK government's policy change to support teachers • popularised approaches to improve the teaching of computer science • supported tech entrepreneurship and contributed to the foundation of a successful spinoff company • supported diverse diversity • and more…

It is the Computer Science for Fun (CS4FN) project's 20th anniversary. I am gradually writing our impact story. Read about it here:
cs4fn.blog/impact/
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Here are some highlights ...

Marcus Pearce & Shalom Lappin Book launch

📚 Book launch alert!

Join us on 16 June at Queen Mary University of London for the launch of new works by Prof. Marcus Pearce and Shalom Lappin. Presentations, Q&A, and a wine reception await!​ Book your place here: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

This year, for the first time, #IEEE #EDUCON is being held in the UK! And we’re so proud that it’s being hosted at Queen Mary educon-conference.org

As the conference kicks off, hear from its chair Usman Naeem about this year’s themes and aims. @qmuleecs.bsky.social @qmulse.bsky.social

A pull up banner thanking our sponsors which are as follows: Platinum Sponsors - MathWorks and Try Engineering, Gold Sponsor - Pearson, Sponsor - Abet and IOT Cloud World, Local Sponsors - QMUL and Visit London, Technical Sponsors - IEEE Education Society and IEEE Region 8.

A pull-up banner welcoming our delegates and letting them know that the 2025 theme is "Sustaining educational excellence in engineering - generative AI in enhancing critical thinking and active learning".

A mildly arty shot of the wooden floor in the anteroom to the Octagon at QMUL which has our Q logo inlaid in a lighter coloured wood. On top of it is a suitcase which has transported some of the stuff we need to put signs up and make sure no-one gets lost. There are also boxes of magazines to give out and some pull-up banners waiting to be unpacked and set up.

This is a large A2 posterboard in blue with the Educon 2025 colouring and logo branding etc and an A4 polypocket attached. There are several A4 pieces of paper in it and the first announces the next event in that room. Here is't room GC202 and the first event there is at 1pm and it will be a Workshop on "An engineering course through remote experimentation - an introduction to electric and electronic circuits." Once that event has finished the bit of paper is discarded and the one behind it says what the next event will be. These are positioned on a small easel outside the room. Very efficient.

Excited to welcoming delegates to a sold out #EduCon2025 ("The IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (IEEE EDUCON)") from IEEE hosted at @qmul.ac.uk with fellow volunteers from @qmuleecs.bsky.social :) 2025.ieee-educon.org

Celebrating 20 years of inspiring people about computer science with a talk and a bit of a party on 6th May. There will be cake and table magic, and it's all free. At QMUL. Details in link in main post.

Happy birthday to @qmul.ac.uk's and @qmuleecs.bsky.social's computing outreach project @cs4fn.bsky.social. Co-founded by Paul Curzon & the late Peter McOwan 'Computer Science For Fun' has been inspiring children, teenagers, teachers & university students for 20 years! cs4fn.blog/cs4fn-20th-b...

A Sea Hero Quest to understand our navigation skills Image by Andrew Martin from Pixabay Video games can be a very successful way to do citizen science, getting ordinary people involved in research. Sea Hero Quest is an extremely successful example. …

A Sea Hero Quest to understand our navigation skills
How a video game is helping researchers understand our navigation skills providing hundreds of years worth of navigation data.
cs4fn.blog/2025/04/13/a...

Crab Alert: Hackathon team builds award-winning early warning system for invasive species

Congratulations to Stanley Parker, a student from EECS who just helped build a blue crab tracking system and won a prize at Open Sea Lab 4.0! Their team used Python, R, and open marine datasets to prototype a tool for early warnings on invasive species: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

🎵How does your brain turn sound into music? Dr Iran Roman from EECS used AI and brain scans to decode how we process pitch, timbre, and rhythm. Read more: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

✨ Got a cool STEM tabletop activity?
Queen Mary wants YOU at the Lambeth Country Show or New Scientist Live.
Fun. Hands-on. Conversation-starting.
Apply by 22 April 🗓️
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EECS researchers uncover the hidden patterns behind a $3.5 billion cryptocurrency collapse

🚨 A group of researchers just mapped out how the $3.5B Terra/LUNA crypto collapse may have been triggered by a handful of coordinated traders. Dr Richard Clegg and his team used cutting-edge graph analysis to reveal patterns hidden in plain sight: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an...

Language-mangling rude word filters “Rainwater tank, about 200 litres” by Jeuwre, available under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 licence, via Wikimedia. What we have here on the right is a water butt also known as a rainwater tank. These…

Day 4 of our special whimsical series to celebrate April
Language-mangling rude word filters
What could possibly go wrong with find and replace?
cs4fn.blog/2025/04/04/l...

I’m (not) a little teapot ‘Smithfield Utah’ teapot created by Alan Butler, 2021, photographed by John Flanagan and made available under a CC 4.0 licence, via Wikipedia’s page on the Utah teapot. My friends…

I'm (not) a little teapot
The history of the Utah Teapot, the most important teapot in computer graphics history.
cs4fn.blog/2025/04/02/i...

Broadband, by carrier pigeon The beautiful (and quite possibly wi-fi ready, with those antennas) Victoria Crowned Pigeon. Not a carrier pigeon admittedly, but much more photogenic.Image by Foto-Rabe from Pixabay There’s …

Broadband, by carrier pigeon
Ways birds have been used to transmit data in competition with computer networks ...
cs4fn.blog/2025/04/01/b...

Daniel Gill and Ekaterina Ivanova from EECS have launched Minds (Mutual Inclusion through Neurodiversity in Science), a new Neurodiversity in Science Network dedicated to supporting and celebrating neurodivergent researchers. Read the interview here: equalities.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/2025/03/24/a...

Computer Science for Fun (CS4FN) 20 years celebration

Come celebrate the 20 years celebration of The Computer Science for Fun Project! More info and (free) ticket here: www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/news-an... @cs4fn.bsky.social