Our research - Computer and Data Science
The School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary delivers world-class electronic engineering and computer science research and applies it to real-world problems.
As a multidisciplinary school, our researchers collaborate with people across many fields, including psychologists, musicians, actors, mathematicians, medical researchers and lawyers.
We are well known for our pioneering research and pride ourselves on our world-class projects. We are ranked 8th in the UK for Computer Science and Informatics research (REF 2021) and 7th in the UK for Engineering research (REF 2021). Research in the School is centred around a number of Research centres and groups.
Check out some of our research in the fields of computer and data science:
Professor Josh Reiss - Disrupting the music industry with AI algorithms
Audio production can be time consuming, labour-intensive and expensive. A new cloud-based audio mastering service, LandR Audio, uses artificial intelligence algorithms to produce professional – but accessible – audio mastering. These intelligent signal processing tools automate most of the audio and music production process. It is used by more than three million users from over 100 countries.
Find out more about the centre.
Sean Gong: New technology helps re-identify people in videos
Re-ID is a specialist software that re-identifies people more accurately than highly trained human experts. It was created by Vision Semantics Limited (VSL), a company co-founded and led by Professor Sean Gong, and is now being used by international police forces.
Find out more about the Computer Vision Group.
Simon Dixon: Sing along solutions – automatic lyric transcription for the music streaming age
“Excuse me while I kiss this guy...” Jimi Hendrix’s lyrics to Purple Haze are frequently misheard, and beg the question − if the lyrics of a song are not written down, how are we to know what they are? PhD student Emir Demirel, working with his supervisor Professor Simon Dixon, set out to solve this problem.
Find out more about the centre.
Find out more about our research
You can find out more about our research on our Research Week YouTube playlist. Research Week saw each research group within the School deliver a series of short videos outlining their work.
Watch all of our Research Week videos
