Department of Computer Science

The department is at the forefront of international excellence and leadership in education and research for the computer science professions.

The department benefits from City’s central London location; allowing for close ties with the industry and a wide range of professional sectors, leading to one of the UK’s highest rates of graduate employability and a host of research-led enterprise opportunities. City has been at the leading edge of computer science in the UK for six decades; from laying the groundwork for the foundation of the British Computer Society and awarding some of the country’s first Computer Science degrees, to the vibrant, modern department that exists today.

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Study

The department offers a range of courses at undergraduate, postgraduate taught and research degree level.

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Postgraduate

Research degrees

Research Degrees in the Department of Computer Science

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Edwina Odiwanor

Edwina Odiwanor studied MSc Information Systems and Technology and currently works as a Senior Consultant at IBM.

Research

The Department of Computer Science undertakes its world-class multi-disciplinary research through the following research centres and groups:

Research Centre for Adaptive Computing Systems (CeNACS) - Adaptive systems for preserving quality and security.
Research Centre for Machine Learning - Systems that can learn from data.
giCentre - Data presentation, visual analytics, visual storytelling, cartography and statistical graphics.
Research Centre for Software Reliability - Assessment and assurance of the dependability of systems in terms of safety, security and reliability.
Research Centre for Human Computer Interaction Design - Creating more useful and usable systems by studying the relationship between people and technology.
CitAI, Artificial Intelligence Research Centre - specialises in the intersection between the development of novel AI techniques, Explainable AI (XAI) and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

Our research is carried out according to our ethics policy.

Staff

Here is a list of the academic staff who work in the Department of Computer Science. You can find out more about each member of staff, including their latest publications and their contact details by following the links below.

Head of Department

Dr Ilir Gashi

Professors

Readers

Senior Lecturers

Lecturers

Research Fellows

Research Assistants

Shahedeh Abdolhossein
Marwa Gadala
Konstantinos Mantzoukas
Konstantinos Pozdniakov
Anna Weller

News, events and recent research

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City alumna explores the visualisation of disinformation networks

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Reimagining everyday technologies in light of COVID-19

In his recent paper published in the Association of Computing Machinery’s journal Interactions, City’s Dr Alex Taylor calls on the industries and prac...

New report on the proceedings of City’s first ever National symposium on Developing socially responsible STEM professionals

Several calls to action are offered including the need for social responsibility to be embedded in STEM curricula and the setting up of a National Eng...

City academics share research at HCI Summer Festival

Jointly organised by City’s Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design, Newcastle University’s OpenLab, and Northumbria University’s NorthLab, the F...

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