Research
Research profile
Computer science is the study of the structure, behaviour, and interactions of natural and artificial computational
systems, and the way that they transform information into knowledge by communication and computation.
Computing is no longer just desktop machines! The future vision of computing is of billions of computational devices interacting with people, the environment and each other to help us live, work, learn and play.
The Department of Computer Science at Queen Mary is a world leader in this new vision of computer science. We have a long history of innovation and have been continually at the cutting edge of Computer Science for over 40 years. At the same time, the Department has maintained its youthful vigour, with a strong policy of the appointment of the best young minds in the field, culminating in the vibrant research environment. Our goal is to have an international reputation for leadership in fundamental and innovative multidisciplinary research, and applications, with a lasting impact on the subject.
Our research is being used in traditional computer science applications, as well as many novel areas like:
- Modelling complex computer resource allocation
- Evaluating software reliability
- Investigating motion camouflage in artificial systems
- Augmenting human interactions for jazz musicians
- Recognising faces and gestures
- Evaluating legal evidence
- Online learning
- Building recommender systems for interactive TV
- 3D modelling of deformation of human faces
- Theorem-proving for software and hardware verification
- Data sonification
- Agent-oriented programming
- Combining evidence for Web information retrieval tasks.
