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9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Sheffield ranked within top 100 universities in QS World 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ Rankings

9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ has been ranked within the top 100 universities in the world in the QS World 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ Rankings 2026, reaffirming its place as a leading global university for teaching and research excellence.
An illustration of protein molecules
An illustration of protein molecules. Credit: Getty

AI could accelerate protein engineering – key for developing new medicines

An AI approach developed by researchers from the 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Sheffield and AstraZeneca, could make it easier to design proteins needed for new treatments.
Dr Zheng Yuan

A warm welcome to Dr Zheng Yuan who joins the School of Computer Science

Dr Zheng Yuan joins us in her role as Senior Lecturer in Natural Language Processing.
The 25th Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science (MGS 25) in Sheffield

School of Computer Science hosts the 25th Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science (MGS 25)

The event was hosted here at the 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ of Sheffield between 7 and 11 April 2025.
Professor Guy Brown and Dr Ning Ma with the CIDRZ team at the field recording site at Kanyama Level One Hospital, Lusaka.

Computer Science academics strengthen AI health research links with the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ)

Dr Ning Ma and Professor Guy Brown from the School of Computer Science recently visited Zambia to initiate a second project that will research the potential of using AI analysis of cough sound to screen for tuberculosis (TB).

Understanding how robots could fit into the social fabric of human society

Meet Miro! This animal-like robot integrated with AI perception and language models featured at the 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂ's Festival of the Mind 2024 and received lots of interest from the public interested in the possibility of robot companions.
second year computer science student, Shohail Ismail, infront of a big IBM sign

Computer Science student places highly at IBM TechXchange hackathon

Second-year Computer Science student, Shohail Ismail, recently placed 5th at the IBM TechXchange watsonx hackathon out of over 4,000 participants.