| Welcome to our research pages, which are intended to guide you through our research environment, whether you intend to apply for postgraduate study, to work with us as a research collaborator or partner, or simply want to find out more about our world-leading research and our contributions to the development of knowledge and technology.
The School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) 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.
ECS is unique in the UK through its integration of Electronics and Computer Science, its distinguished record of research success over many years and, especially, through the scale of its research activities. We currently have around 500 researchers, encompassing 100 academic staff (including 35 professors), 150 research staff, and 250 PhD students. Our graduate students are highly valued throughout the School, for their contribution to the School’s research, and as the next generation of outstanding researchers. We currently hold grants from the EPSRC totalling over £39M and our annual research expenditure is over £8M.
The special characteristics of ECS are its inherently strong research culture grounded in engineering and mathematical principles, its enduring commitment to multidisciplinarity, its openness to explore newly emergent technologies and capabilities, its constant drive to attract the best people, and its longstanding focus on innovation and enterprise. It is an exciting environment to be part of and one in which new technological approaches are constantly being defined and developed.
All our research is organized around 10 world-leading research groups, which reflect the wide-ranging research themes in the School. but one of our major strengths is our ability to combine research expertise across the School.
We also work closely with many networks of researchers in universities and business. Among our research collaborators are some of the world’s leading companies and agencies, and we recognize that it is through such partnerships that the greatest advances will be made.
If you want to undertake doctoral research in a stimulating environment, to gain a rigorous research training, to be able to take advantage of outstanding facilities and be surrounded by enthusiastic and highly committed people from a range of different and interesting backgrounds, then this is the place to be. You will find more information about this on our Postgraduate Admissions pages, and we look forward to receiving your application and to welcoming you to the School.
Professor Nick Jennings FREng
Deputy Head of School (Research)
Nick Jennings is Professor of Computer Science and one of the world’s leading researchers in artificial intelligence. He is also Head of the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia group in ECS. His own research interest is in agent technology and he now leads one of the world’s most influential groups in this area.
He is currently directing the ALADDIN project (Autonomous Learning Agents for Decentralised Data and Information Networks), an ambitious five-year programme which aims to find solutions for some of the most complex and challenging problems that we currently face. ALADDIN involves researchers at Southampton and a number of other leading universities, and is funded by BAE Systems and the EPSRC. ALADDIN is developing computer agents that can interact robustly in an emergency to maintain data and information systems in times of fast-changing and uncertain situations.
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