Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol, is the computer science department of the University of Bristol and is based in the Merchant Venturers building on Woodland Road, close to Bristol city centre. As of 2015 the department is home to 40 academic staff, 61 research staff, 25 support staff, 112 PhD research students, 127 MSc students and 458 undergraduate students.[1]

Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol
View of the Merchant Venturers Building, home to the department of computer science, with the Wills Memorial Building in the background
Established1984 (with origins in 1968)
Head of DepartmentProf. Seth Bullock
Academic staff
40
Location
Bristol
,
United Kingdom
CampusClifton Campus
Websitewww.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/departments/computerscience/

Research

Research in the department investigates theoretical computer science, algorithms, programming languages, cryptography, computer vision, signal processing, robotics, Human–computer interaction (HCI), bioinformatics, computational neuroscience, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI).[2]

Senior staff: Professors

As of 2020 the department employs fourteen Professors,[1] shown below:

  1. Professor David Cliff
  2. Professor Peter Flach
  3. Professor David May FRS FREng[3]
  4. Professor Majid Mirmehdi[4]
  5. Professor Nigel Smart
  6. Professor Seth Bullock
  7. Professor Kerstin Eder
  8. Professor Walterio Mayol-Cuevas
  9. Professor Simon McIntosh-Smith
  10. Professor Elisabeth Oswald
  11. Professor Andrew Calway
  12. Professor Kirsten Cater
  13. Professor Ian Nabney
  14. Professor Chris Preist

References
  1. "All Computer Science academic people". University of Bristol.
  2. "Research". Computer Science. University of Bristol. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  3. "MAY, Prof. (Michael) David". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription or UK public library membership required) (subscription required)
  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol publications indexed by Google Scholar
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