Research Groups

Over the department's history, there have been 5 main research groups.

Image from the publicity material for the AutoSteve FMEA software, which came from research in the advanced reasoning group
Advanced Reasoning

The group's research includes industry applications including crime detection and prevention, engineering design analysis, and computer-based diagnosis.

History of the Advanced Reasoning Group

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Bioinformatics & Computational Biology

The group's research includes Data analysis of large scale biological data, Formalisation of biological data, Systems biology, Biomedical informatics, Genomics and metagenomics, and Pharmacogenomics.

History of the Bioinformatics Group

Image of the iCub research robot
Intelligent Robotics

One of the best-known robotics groups in the UK, with research areas that include biologically inspired robotics, robot vision systems and space robotics.

History of the Intelligent Robotics Group

Images of some books produced be members of the software engineering team.
Software Engineering

One of our oldest research groups, which included research into integrated software engineering environments, and software engineering education.

History of the Software Engineering Group

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Vision, Graphics and Visualisation Group (VGV)

This group's research includes medical image analysis, panoramic image analysis for robotic vision, and free form and 3D shape matching to model complex 3D objects.

History of the VGV Group

Research Grants

You can search for information about the Department's grants over the years.