News: women@cl
Learning about student life on our Women in Computer Science residential
18 August 2026
Going to lectures on quantum computing and wearable technology, watching a mock admissions interview, doing a programming workshop and touring Cambridge colleges. These were among the activities sampled by the prospective undergraduates who came to our Women in Computer Science residential course last week. More …
How using AI to analyse body sounds can help doctors diagnose heart and lung disease
26 January 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) models can help doctors make faster and more accurate diagnoses when they’re trained to analyse medical images, such as scans of tumours or photos of skin growths. Now a researcher is investigating if AI can diagnose diseases just as effectively from analysing body sounds like heartbeats, speaking, coughing and breathing. More …
A Level Students complete our Women in Computer Science programme
22 July 2025
A group of Year 12 students from across the UK visited Cambridge for a residential course at the end of our five-month Women in Computer Science programme. Congratulations to them on their hard work and achievements. More …
Transforming Robot Dexterity
29 May 2025
As part of a highly ambitious UK research programme to improve Robot Dexterity, Rika Antonova – an Associate Professor here at the University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology – is leading a new project to co-evolve smarter robot bodies and learning. More …
Welcoming our new Associate Professor in Human-Computer Interaction
27 May 2025
Dr Katie Seaborn will be joining us as a new member of our faculty in February 2026. She is coming here as an Associate Professor in Human-Computer Interaction and will be contributing to both our research and our teaching in this area. More …
Hosting the 2025 Oxbridge Women in Computer Science Conference
6 March 2025
We're getting ready to host the 2025 Oxbridge Women in Computer Science Conference here in Cambridge this May. More …
Recognition for "significant achievements in computing"
12 February 2025
Congratulations to Prof Cecilia Mascolo who has today been named a 2024 ACM Distinguished Member. This accolade is awarded to computer scientists "for significant achievements in computing beyond the norm". More …
Fellowship funds new research into 'hearable' health sensors
25 November 2024
Exploring how to turn 'hearable' devices like earbuds into genuinely trustworthy and reliable instruments for measuring human health and fitness: that's the target of a new research project that will shortly get underway. More …
The 2024 Wheeler Lecture - 'Supercharging the Human Mind With AI'
27 October 2024
Professor Yvonne Rogers, Director of the Interaction Centre at UCL, was our speaker for the 2024 Wheeler Lecture. 'Supercharging the human mind with AI' took place here in the William Gates Building on Wednesday 23 October and the recording is below. More …
Lovelace Medal for Dr Sue Sentance
24 October 2024
Many congratulations to our colleague Dr Sue Sentance, Director of the Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre here. She has just been awarded the BCS Lovelace Medal 2024. More …
First students complete our Women in Computer Science programme
8 July 2024
The first group of Year 12 students to complete our five-month Women in Computer Science programme have just visited Cambridge for an end-of-course residential. Congratulations to them on their hard work and achievements! More …
Marking 20 years of Women@CL
27 March 2024
The Department's Women@CL network - which exists to support female and non-binary computer science students here - is 20 years old! To celebrate this milestone, we held a special anniversary event on Wednesday 20th March 2024. More …
Research internship programme offers students from under-represented backgrounds insights into AI research
16 January 2024
Research Ready is a new summer internship programme that will offer insights into AI research to students from under-represented backgrounds. More …
Hosting the Oxbridge Women in Computer Science Conference
26 April 2023
The 2023 Oxbridge Women in Computer Science Conference takes place here in the William Gates Building this Saturday. More …
The researcher scaling new frontiers in multi-robotic research
6 December 2022
In the Prorok Lab here, Dr Amanda Prorok and her team are researching practical ways to solve problems that require robots to coordinate with each other. This includes 'flocking' - a process in which each robot in the group adjusts its velocity and aligns with other robots while maintaining a predetermined path and avoiding collisions. More …
'Innovative' teaching wins Dr Amanda Prorok a Pilkington Prize
16 March 2022
Congratulations to our colleague Dr Amanda Prorok who has won a 2022 Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching. More …
The climate crisis: 'change is possible'
7 December 2021
"We are already seeing the impacts of climate change around the world today, in terms of extreme weather events, wildfires, floods, melting polar ice," says climate scientist Emily Shuckburgh, our Professor of Environmental Data Science. "These impacts will only increase if we don’t address climate change today. And that will result in a loss of human society and the natural world as we know it." More …
Support for student using machine learning to understand forest ecosystems
24 November 2021
An award to a PhD student here will help her work with local communities as she uses machine learning techniques to monitor the health, biodiversity and deforestation of Ghanaian forests. More …
#StateSchoolProud to be here
7 July 2021
"Don’t worry that you might not fit in. When you get here, you will naturally find other people like you." So says ex-comprehensive school pupil Tanya Morris who is now a Computer Science undergraduate here. More …
A journey to Cambridge on 'the road less travelled'
7 March 2021
After dropping out of school, Sian Gooding went to sell PCs in a high-street retailer. It got her hooked on computing and eight years later she’s an award-winning student here, working towards her PhD. She tells us about her journey. More …
Improving diversity in AI 'would benefit society'
7 March 2021
"I'd urge you to consider a career in AI and data science," Michelle Seng Ah Lee told a group of black state school students recently. "Improving diversity in AI would benefit our industries and our society – making sure diverse backgrounds and thoughts are represented in the algorithms we are releasing into the wild." More …
'I want to make a contribution through science'
5 March 2021
PhD student Mahwish Arif (pictured front right at the Oxbridge Women in Science Conference) arrived here following a stint with the Pakistan Space Agency, a Commonwealth Scholarship and an MSc at the University of Edinburgh. On International Women's Day on 8 March, she tells us about her journey. More …
'Conducting research here has been a transformative experience'
17 February 2021
Meet Dr Ildiko Pete, a postdoc in our Cambridge Cybercrime Centre where she works at the intersection of machine learning and cybersecurity. More …
Showcasing our healthcare research
1 February 2021
Using body sound recordings to train computer models to predict Covid-19, and employing AI techniques in the quest to improve cancer treatment, were among the projects discussed at our Healthcare Research Showcase last week. More …
New Fellows will help Accelerate Discovery
18 November 2020
Predicting mental health conditions like schizophrenia; accelerating the development of new materials; investigating the building blocks of living systems; and advancing our understanding of the fundamental dynamics of the Universe. Four new Early Career Fellows who have just joined this Department's Accelerate Programme will be using artificial intelligence to advance their research in these fields – and equipping young researchers across the University with the skills to use it in theirs. More …
'Robot trainer' receives ERC Starting Grant to study transport systems of the future
3 September 2020
Dr Amanda Prorok, an Assistant Professor and University Lecturer in Cyber-Physical Systems here, has today been awarded a coveted European Research Council Starting Grant. More …
Private-eye-turned-researcher receives ERC Starting Grant to study cybercrime
3 September 2020
Dr Alice Hutchings, a researcher into cybercrime and a University Lecturer on computer security, has today (3 Sept 2020) been awarded a coveted European Research Council Starting Grant. More …
Why I thought I wasn't smart enough for Computer Science...
28 July 2020
She was conditioned by a tutor to believe that "girls aren't smart enough for Computer Science". But two years into her degree here, Vasundhara Agarwal now knows that's just not true. More …
The Wheeler Lecture 2020: The Future of Microprocessors
20 May 2020
The annual Wheeler Lecture looked at the history of microprocessors, how we got to where we are now, and what constraints there are on the future. As predicted, there were laws, graphs and references to Star Wars... More …
The essential travel assistant that could guide us out of lockdown
28 April 2020
Image: You. Smart. Thing. Covid-19 Essential Travel Assistant. More …
Plan AI, because there is no planet B
17 April 2020
To mark Earth Day on Wednesday 22 April, our colleague Emily Shuckburgh gave the first virtual Turing Lecture on sustainability and the climate crisis. More …
One Stop Epidemy Resource
16 April 2020
An international team of developers, including a visiting student in this Department, has created an open-source online hospital resource management system of benefit to both doctors and families. More …
Using our skills to help others
7 April 2020
“We are privileged to have so much in Cambridge – and we should be
using it to help others.”
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New app collects the sounds of COVID-19
6 April 2020
Researchers here have led the development of a new app that will collect the sounds made by those suffering from the coronavirus. More …
Alumna Rana El Kaliouby named in BBC's 100 influential women of 2019
17 October 2019
Rana el Kaliouby is an AI pioneer and entrepreneur who works on artificial emotional intelligence. More …
PhD student Krittika D'Silva wins multiple awards
15 July 2019
Krittika D’Silva, a third-year PhD student, has been recognised with Rising Star Awards in both AI and Networking & Communications, and a Youth Award. More …
Professor Simone Teufel wins 2019 Pilkington Prize for outstanding teaching
11 July 2019
Professor Simone Teufel has been awarded a Pilkington Prize for delivering outstanding teaching. More …
Driverless cars could speed up traffic by 35%
29 May 2019
A fleet of driverless cars working together to keep traffic moving smoothly can improve overall traffic flow by at least 35 percent, researchers have shown. More …