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A dynamic environment - Research at the leading edge

ECS-Electronics and Computer Science is the leading university department of its kind in the UK, with an international reputation for world-leading research across computer science, electronics, and electrical engineering.

Research takes place in a multidisciplinary, collaborative environment, drawing on outstanding facilities. With over 550 researchers from many different subject backgrounds, the research culture in ECS is fast-changing and dynamic. Agent technologies, digital libraries, environmental modelling, e-Science, high voltage engineering, machine learning, spintronics, technology-enhanced learning and Web Science are just some of the technologies in which ECS research has been fundamentally transformative in recent years. Full information about all our research projects is available on our research group pages. ECS also incorporates two Doctoral Training Centres – in Web Science, and Complex Systems Simulation.

Crowdsourcing experts team up to accelerate cardiac response

Researchers from the University of Southampton will be collaborating with scientists from Masdar Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to tackle the MyHeartMap Challenge, using social network and crowdsourcing.

ECS-developed RTI system in action at The Louvre

The Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) system developed by Dr Kirk Martinez of ECS-Electronics and Computer Science along with Archaeology colleagues at the Universities of Southampton and Oxford has recently been deployed in The Louvre, Paris, to capture items from the Oriental artefacts department.

ECS researchers win prestigious awards at ACM Multimedia conference

Jonathan Hare and Sina Samangooei with an appropriately Western-themed poster
Prestigious prizes for Best Open-Source Software were awarded to ECS researchers Dr Jonathon Hare and Dr Sina Samangooei at the ACM Multimedia 2011 conference, held this month in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Research Groups
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The School's 10 internationally renowned research groups define and develop new areas and new approaches in their disciplines.

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Opportunities for PhD research exist across the School. We welcome applications from well-qualified candidates to join our research groups.

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Research Publications
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As the academic institution in the world to adopt a self-archiving mandate (2001), ECS continues to lobby for Open Access to research publications. The research output of all members of ECS is available and fully searchable in our online repository.

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ECS is world-class, research-led and multidisciplinary and has been at the forefront of research development for 60 years. The School’s research environment ensures continuing success.

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