Cambridge Computer Science

The booklet attendees will pick up on the day explains the structure of our Computer Science degree course, what modules they can take and how to choose the ones that most interest them.

It's our annual Open Days tomorrow & Friday when hundreds of potential students come to find out what it's really like to study Computer Science 💻 here at Cambridge Uni. They can hear admissions talks & sample lectures - and try lock-picking with the Computer Security group! buff.ly/0j5OGJT

The rapid rise in AI-generated fraudulent academic papers is "poisoning" scientific literature, say Cambridge researchers in Nature magazine today. But though AI is the problem, it could also help in ensuring the integrity of scientific discovery... buff.ly/AuSNcGd
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Artists urgently need stronger defences to protect their work from being used to train AI models without their consent. So say an international team of researchers from this Department and from the Technical University of Darmstadt, where this image was created.

🎨 Artists urgently need stronger defences 🛡️ to protect their work from being used to train #AI models without their consent. So say the researchers, led by a Security PhD student here, who uncovered critical weaknesses in two art safeguarding tools very widely used by artists...
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Prof Srinivasan Keshav conducts research at the intersection of computer science and sustainability. He is the Robert Sansom Professor of Computer Science at the University of Cambridge.

Congratulations to Prof Srinivasan Keshav on receiving the inuagural #ACM SIGEnergy Achievement Award for his "pioneering contributions to energy systems and informatics, including seminal research, capacity building, and helping to create SIGENERGY and eEnergy." energy.acm.org/sigenergy-ac...

For more information on the wide range of security features in this new system, do take a look at the longer story: www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/guardia...

The app is the Guardian's mobile news app - not a specific whistleblowing app - so there's nothing incriminating about having it on your phone. And when you open it, even if you've already set up an account on the Secure Messaging feature, it will deliberately look as though you haven't used it.

Delighted to see this technology - which builds on our 'CoverDrop' security research - being implemented by @theguardian.com
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The Guardian's new Secure Messaging service for whistleblowers wanting to contact journalists was developed in collaboration with security reseachers at Cambridge University.

From today, @theguardian.com's new Secure Messaging system will generate dummy messages as 'air cover' for real messages sent by whistleblowers. This is to stop adversaries seeing that they're contacting journalists. The new system builds on security research carried out here: shorturl.at/Et0Rf

Dr Dong Ma will join us in January 2026 as an Associate Professor in Wearable Computing. Dong is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at Singapore Management University. His research interests lie broadly in the area of mobile computing with a special focus on wearable-based human sensing systems.

"One of the next frontiers for AI lies in deciphering human-centred data captured by wearable devices," says Dr Dong Ma, who'll join us next year as Associate Professor in Wearable Computing. "This holds the promise of tackling some profound societal challenges..." www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/new-ass...

The annual Cambridge Cybercrime Conference brings together researchers working in interdisciplinary cybercrime research. In June 2025, the conference will cover topics including trust and identity in cybercriminal ecosystems, technical threats and disruption and resilience in illicit online activites.

Exploring the trust-building mechanisms that support #cybercrime markets on Telegram, and understanding the techniques #hackers use for exploiting human elements. Two of the topics to be discussed at the annual Cambridge Cybercrime Conference on 23 June. www.cambridgecybercrime.uk/conference20...

Andreas Vlachos, our Professor of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning, collected the award from Head of Department Alastair Beresford at our Hall of Fame Awards ceremony on 23 April 2025.

🎉 Congratulations @pietrolesci.bsky.social, Clara Meister, Thomas Hofmann, @andreasvlachos.bsky.social & Tiago Pimentel! They won Publication of the Year at our annual Hall of Fame awards last week for their paper on 'Causal Estimation of Memorisation Profiles'. www.cst.cam.ac.uk/announcing-w...

I am hiring a 2-year postdoc (either at Research Associate or Senior Research Associate level) to work on static analysis tools, particular with application to Fortran, at @cst.cam.ac.uk @iccscambridge.bsky.social. Details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51153/ (closing date 25th May)

Raoul completed his PhD in programming languages in our Department before going on to set up AI and data skills training company Cambridge Spark.

10 years ago Dr Raoul-Gabriel Urma completed his PhD here thanks to a scholarship. Now he's giving another student the same opportunity. A gift from EdTech entrepreneur Raoul, founder and Group CEO of Cambridge Spark, will help support a PhD student researching computing education. shorturl.at/YXO3V

Turbocharging the race to protect nature and climate with AI Rebalancing the planet must happen faster. Cambridge researchers are using AI to help.

Our Planetary Computing Fellow Dr Sadiq Jaffer @sadiq.toao.com works on an AI 'Conservation Co-Pilot'. And PhD student Zhengpeng Feng helped develop the 'GreenLens' app to measure trees on the ground more quickly and accurately than a person with a tape measure.

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Turbocharging the race to protect nature and climate with AI Rebalancing the planet must happen faster. Cambridge researchers are using AI to help.

The stories here shed light on how our researchers are pioneering ways to use #AI to protect nature and climate. For example, our Planetary Computing Professor @anil.recoil.org is developing the 'Terra' AI, a predictive model of all terrestrial life on Earth.

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Researcher Yang Liu holds the Mark Weiser Best Paper Award, given at IEEE PerCom 2025, the International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications. Yang and colleagues won for their work in repurposing the in-ear microphones in our earbuds for collecting and analysing our breathing rates (a key vital sign), demonstrating a new way for us to monitor our health.

Researcher Jake Stuchbury-Wass holds the Mark Weiser Best Paper Award, given at IEEE PerCom 2025, the International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications. Jake and colleagues won for their work in repurposing the in-ear microphones in our earbuds for collecting and analysing our breathing rates (a key vital sign), demonstrating a new way for us to monitor our health.

Congratulations to our researchers who just won the Best Paper Award at #IEEE PerCom 2025 for their work in repurposing the microphones in our earbuds to collect & analyse vital bodily signs. Come and Meet the team this Saturday at our @cambridgefestival.bsky.social Open Day! shorturl.at/wGaSy

And if you're in Cambridge and want to see some of this exciting research yourself, come to our Open Day this Saturday (22 March) as part of the @cambridgefestival.bsky.social Cambridge Festival!
Find full details of the day at: www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/tour-su...

BBC Click viewers will see the amazing work taking place in the Prorok Lab as researchers train swarms of autonomous cars and drones to work together.

Some of our AI research is on this week's BBC Click! Presenter
@spenley.bsky.social watches swarms of autonomous cars and drones working together in the Prorok Lab, wears earbuds that can sense our body's vital signs & learns how robots can help our wellbeing. Watch at:
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Researchers in our Prorok Lab are looking for new ways to induce AI agents – such as robots, machines and driverless cars – to achieve common goals while working in shared spaces like warehouses and roads. Visitors to our Cambridge Festival Open Day on Saturday 22 March 2-25 can enjoy a demo of what happens when a group of driverless cars, working in formation, have to interact with a human.

How do you train a fleet of driverless cars to work together to achieve common goals - and avoid humans? Come and see (and take part in!) a demo by researchers in our Prorok Lab during our Cambridge Festival Open Day on Sat 22 March. shorturl.at/wGaSy
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Dr Sam Nallaperuma is researching the ways in which we could harness AI and neuroscience to make music tuned to our own brain waves so it becomes our own personalised therapy programme for relaxation and sleep.

Do you suffer from insomnia? Come to our Open Day at the Cambridge Festival @cambridgefestival.bsky.social where Dr Sam Nallaperuma (herself an insomnia sufferer) will share her research into how AI could help us treat sleep disorders.
📅Sat 22 March, 11:00-17:00
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We're looking forward to being part of #CamFest 2025! At our Open Day on Sat 22 March visitors can 'tour' the Dawn supercomputer, chat to a robot, make music with code, discover how AI can help you with your insomnia - or turn you into a guitar genius! - and more.
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Using AI to see the wood for the trees "We believe ours is the only app to sit in the 'sweet spot' of offering high quality for low cost."

The free 'GreenLens' app uses #AI to measure tree 🌳diameter. It's highly accurate – yet runs on a cheap, second-hand Android phone. Developed by researchers here, the app is for anyone interested in protecting & restoring forests.
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Prof Cecilia Mascolo co-directs the Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence here in Cambridge, which focuses on next-generation mobile and wearable technology, as well as mobile applications.

Congratulations to Prof Cecilia Mascolo. She was today named by The Association for Computing Machinery as a Distinguished Member for her "contributions to mobile wearable systems efficiency, and signal and data analysis enabling multidisciplinary applications".
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Human-Centred Computing & Human-Machine Interaction Research Showcase - YouTube Our January 2025 Research Showcase featured our work on human-centred computing and human-machine interaction. You can see videos of their presentations in t...

Videos of all the talks from our Research Showcase on Human-Centred Computing & Human-Machine Interaction last week are now available to view on our YouTube channel.
Topics range from #DigitalTwins to Modelling Visual Constraints for Smarter Tech.
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Willey Reveley's drawing of Jeremy Bentham's design for a 'panopticon' prison where one central guard could see into every single prisoner's cell.

#Sensors can capture vital information on buildings, such as their occupancy, CO2 & heat levels. But how do we employ sensors without making buildings into prisons like Bentham's 'panopticon' where occupants are under constant surveillance? Find out at our 23 Jan Research Showcase: shorturl.at/u7LId

Thanks to Ion Fett for making this photo of the human eye available on Unsplash at https://unsplash.com/photos/blue-eye-photo-QRawWgV6gmo?utm_content=creditShareLink&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash

Looking forward to our Showcase on #Human-Machine Interaction on 23 Jan. Topics include how understanding the limitations of human #vision can guide the design & optimisation of technology, helping align it with human perception for more effective human-machine interactions.
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Michael was one of ten interns on our first Cambridge Google DeepMind Research Ready programme, a scheme that offers an experience of AI research to those currently under-represented in this field.

"Now I've done this, I hope I can go great places in future." As applications open for our 2025 Research Ready Internships, 2024 intern Michael Ogunrinde tells us how he benefited from this programme that offers alternative pathways into AI research. www.cst.cam.ac.uk/opportunity-...

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Researchers in the AFAR Lab at Cambridge University are using small robots like Nao as part of a project on how robots can help assess children's mental wellbeing. This picture, of researcher Dr Micol Spitale with Nao, was taken by PhD student Nida Itrat Abbasi.

How can #robots help us assess the mental wellbeing of children? At our 23 January Research Showcase, PhD student Nida Abbasi will discuss her work in designing child-robot interaction experiences aimed at assessing children's mental wellbeing. Interested? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/research-s...

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❗Job alert! We’re looking to hire a teaching fellow and two research software engineers. Visit our website for more info.
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