Success for City’s Computer Science researchers
On 5th
June, the School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering excelled in the 8th annual University Research
Competition (URC), winning four of the 11 short-listed research projects from
across City, either as individuals or part of a cross-disciplinary team.
Celebrating
the diversity of research carried out at City, the annual University Research
Competition sees academics across the University presenting research proposals
to an audience of over 70 colleagues, covering a wide range of topics.
Prizes were
presented by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Paul Curran.
Stephanie Wilson, Reader in Human Centred Systems, shared her prize with Professor Jane Marshall (Divisional Head of Language and Communications Science) in the School of Health Sciences for their research project titled: Taking Eva Park into the wild: developing impact from a technological aphasia research project.
Dr Marco Comuzzi, Lecturer in Computer Science, was part of the winning research team for Making Impact in Tech City for City’s Research on Entrepreneurship, which also included Professor Charles Baden-Fuller, Professor Costas Andriopoulos, Professor Fleura Bardhi, Dr Vangelis Soutaris, Dr Caroline Wiertz and Dr Stefania Zerbinati, of Cass Business School.
Dr Eduardo Alonso, Reader in Computing, was a
winner for Neural network controllers for power grids and renewable
energies: Validation and commercialization. Dr Greg Slabaugh and Dr
Tillman Weyde, Senior Lecturers in the Department of Computer Science, collaborated
with Dr Elliot Freeman and Dr Stian Reimers (Department of Psychology) of the
School of Arts & Social Sciences and Professor Gary Morgan (Division of
Language and Communication Science) of the School of Health Sciences on their
winning entry, Improving speech comprehension by delaying sound. Associate
Dean for Research and Enterprise, and Professor of Biomedical Engineering,
Professor Panicos Kyriacou, is delighted with the School’s performance in this
year’s URC: “The
research projects submitted by academics from our School were impressive and were
suitably matched by our excellent performance. I wish to congratulate all of
our winners. The high degree of inter-School collaboration was also worthy of
consideration and clearly discredits the myth that academics only work in
silos”.
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