Informatics AT Loughborough

The Research School of Informatics was established in 2004. It acts in an executive and advisory capacity in the initiation, integration, promotion and development of research related to informatics in the University in accordance with the University's strategic objectives, and in particular:


  1. To promote and enable the growth of significant multi-disciplinary working in informatics across the boundaries between single disciplines, departments and faculties;

  2. To enable integrated strategy development for multi-disciplinary working in informatics and co-ordinate the execution of the strategy;

  3. To manage the research pipeline particularly to encourage and deliver significant research initiatives in new areas related to informatics where the opportunity requires alliances either across departments within the University or with key external collaborators;

  4. To create and encourage a community within the University in informatics.

 

 

News

Opening of Usability Lab

The Research School of Informatics working with the Department of Computer Science, Ergonomics and Safety Research Institute, and the Department of Information Science have established a Usability Lab with money allocated from the Research Capital Investment Fund. The Lab was officially opened by Professor Ken Parsons, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Research on 9th December 2009. The Lab is equipped with a range of state-of-the art facilities for investigating human-computer interaction. See photos of the opening and some of the facilities - click here

Finalist, IET Innovation Awards 2009

A joint project between BAE Systems, Loughborough University and Aberystwyth University, was one of the finalists of the IET Innovation Awards 2009. There to attend the award ceremony on 25th November 2009 at the Nursery Pavilion, Lord's Cricket Ground and to receive a certificate of recognition from the IET were Dr John Pearson (SEIC), Mr Clive Downes (BAE Systems) and Professor Paul Chung (Director, Research School of Informatics). The ASTRAEA project developed a systems framework for integrated vehicle health management and advisory systems for uninhabited air vehicles (UAV'S).

The 2009 Enterprise Awards

The Consultancy Award for Enterprise was presented to Professor Alastair Gale, head of the Applied Vision Research Centre for PERFORMS ('PERsonal perFORmance in Mammographic Screeding'). PERFORMS has been playing a critical role in improving and maintaining the diagnosis of breast cancer since the NHS began breast screening over 20 years ago and it is planned to licence variations of the scheme worldwide. The evening was a double celebration for Alastair and his team as it has just been confirmed that £1.2M over four years has been awarded from the NHS for the continuation of PERFORMS.

IEEE Best Student Paper

PhD student Martin Sykora was awarded the Best Student Paper Award at the 3rd IEEE SOFA 2009 (International Workshop on Soft Computing and Applications 2009), held in Szeged (Hungary) / Arad (Romania), 29th July - 1st August 2009. All student papers were considered for best IEEE SOFA 2009 student paper award.

Best Student Paper

Computer Science student, Hesham Abusaimeh won the best student paper prize at the 14th International Conference on Automation and Computing, London on 6th September 2008. His paper is titled 'Dynamic cluster head for lifetime efficiency in WSN (wireless sensor networks).''