https://eng.ox.ac.uk Latest news from the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford Mon, 06 Jul 2026 08:43:55 +0000 en Umbraco https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/new-academic-appointments-and-awards-at-the-department-of-engineering-science A list of academic appointments, Associate Professor conferments and internal appointments of Departmental Lecturers in the Department of Engineering Science at Oxford, during 2026 Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/new-academic-appointments-and-awards-at-the-department-of-engineering-science https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/how-ai-could-help-identify-young-athletes-at-risk-of-sudden-cardiac-death Erik Vanegas Müller and Professor Mauricio Villarroel from the Podium Institute for Sports Medicine & Technology, together with colleagues from the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham, have published a systematic review in npj Digital Medicine this month, entitled: A Systematic Review of Explainable Artificial Intelligence and Cardiac Electrophysiological Models Addressing Sports-Related Sudden Cardiac Death and Arrest in Adolescents and Young Adults. Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/how-ai-could-help-identify-young-athletes-at-risk-of-sudden-cardiac-death https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/alumna-named-in-women-s-engineering-society-top-50 Former Oxford Engineering DPhil Dr Amna Riaz has been named one of the Women's Engineering Society's Top 50 Women in Engineering (WE50) for 2026 Women in Engineering Alumni Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/alumna-named-in-women-s-engineering-society-top-50 https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/protecting-insurance-in-a-changing-climate News from University of Oxford about an early warning system that detects increasing levels of climate impacts is being developed by academics, insurance industry partners and the Met Office. Funded by a £1.2m grant from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and led by the Universities of Leeds and Oxford, this work will bring together the predicted impacts of geopolitics, climate change, and regulation in one model for the first time.  Women in Engineering Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/protecting-insurance-in-a-changing-climate https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/department-celebrates-international-women-in-engineering-day On Tuesday 23 June 2026 the Department of Engineering Science celebrated women in engineering and showcased some of the women engineers studying and working at Oxford, with an afternoon of talks and presentations, and a dinner at St Peter's College Women in Engineering Outreach Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/department-celebrates-international-women-in-engineering-day https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-visual-geometry-group-researchers-awarded-best-paper-at-cvpr-2026 A team of Oxford Engineering and Google DeepMind researchers has received the prestigious Best Paper Award at CVPR 2026 for their work Efficiently Reconstructing Dynamic Scenes One D4RT at a Time. This award recognises the top publication out of more than 16,000 submissions to the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) - the principal international conference on computer vision. Information engineering Women in Engineering Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-visual-geometry-group-researchers-awarded-best-paper-at-cvpr-2026 https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-to-host-new-uk-ai-research-lab Oxford University has been selected to host a new, cross-university government-backed UK AI Research Lab. The new lab is part of a £60 million investment announced today by the UKRI's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to support two pioneering AI labs over the next six years. Information Engineering Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-to-host-new-uk-ai-research-lab https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/professor-malcolm-mcculloch Memorian to Professor Malcolm McCulloch, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, who died on Friday 12 June 2026 after a period of illness. Alumni Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/professor-malcolm-mcculloch https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/professor-thomas-adcock-recognised-with-award-for-outstanding-research-supervision Professor Thomas Adcock is one of ten supervisors from across the MPLS Division at the University of Oxford given awards for their exceptional commitment to mentoring and supporting colleagues in 2025/26 Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/professor-thomas-adcock-recognised-with-award-for-outstanding-research-supervision https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-engineering-researchers-recognised-in-iet-postgraduate-research-awards DPhil candidates Latifah Almulla and Matthew Burgess at our Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBME) have been recognised in the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Postgraduate Research Awards 2026. Latifah has been awarded the Hudswell International Research Scholarship, while Matthew has received the IET Postgraduate Prize 2026. Awarded through a competitive international selection process, the IET Postgraduate Research Awards recognise excellence and innovation in engineering research and support the development of future engineering leaders. Malavika Nair christopher proctor Institute of Biomedical Engineering Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-engineering-researchers-recognised-in-iet-postgraduate-research-awards https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/ori-autoinspect-project-wins-oxford-vice-chancellor-s-award Researchers from the Oxford Robotics Institute and the UK Atomic Energy Authority have been presented with the Collaboration for Innovation Award in the University of Oxford’s Vice-Chancellor’s Awards 2026 Information engineering Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/ori-autoinspect-project-wins-oxford-vice-chancellor-s-award https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-researchers-awarded-aria-funding-to-develop-an-internet-of-birds Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-researchers-awarded-aria-funding-to-develop-an-internet-of-birds https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/new-oxford-ai-tool-predicts-droplet-behaviour-from-spray-images-alone Oxford researchers have developed a deep-learning framework that replaces hundreds of hours of simulation with near-instant predictions of droplet size distributions Women in Engineering TPSRG Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/new-oxford-ai-tool-predicts-droplet-behaviour-from-spray-images-alone https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/dphil-student-recognised-in-openai-s-inaugural-chatgpt-futures-class-of-2026 Ayush Noori selected for global programme supporting the next generation of AI innovators David Clifton IBME Computational Health Informatics (CHI) Lab Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/dphil-student-recognised-in-openai-s-inaugural-chatgpt-futures-class-of-2026 https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/uncover-engineering-programme-inspires-future-engineers-from-across-the-uk ORI_News_Feed Women in Engineering WiE Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/uncover-engineering-programme-inspires-future-engineers-from-across-the-uk https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/3dxn-better-understanding-of-disease-through-multi-modal-imaging Engineers and healthcare scientists from the University of Oxford (UK) and the University of Cape Town (South Africa) have come together to improve technologies for diagnosing disease and furthering our understanding of fundamental processes of disease. Biomedical Image Analysis Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/3dxn-better-understanding-of-disease-through-multi-modal-imaging https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-researchers-awarded-funding-to-investigate-hidden-attacks-on-ai-systems The grant will support research into vulnerabilities in vision-language AI agents and how malicious instructions can spread across systems Philip Torr AI Award Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-researchers-awarded-funding-to-investigate-hidden-attacks-on-ai-systems https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-engineering-educator-awarded-google-ai-fellowship-and-advance-he-senior-fellowship Dr Nikita Hari, Head of the Teaching, Research Design and Support Group, has been awarded both an inaugural Google HE Faculty AI Fellowship and a Senior Fellowship of Advance HE in recognition of her contributions to engineering education and academic leadership. Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-engineering-educator-awarded-google-ai-fellowship-and-advance-he-senior-fellowship https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-engineering-science-spinout-densix-launches-with-4-million-seed-funding Funding will support scaling of next-generation power conversion technology developed within Oxford Engineering by Prof Dan Rogers and collaborators Dan Rogers Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-engineering-science-spinout-densix-launches-with-4-million-seed-funding https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/new-study-explains-why-neural-networks-prefer-flatter-solutions Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://eng.ox.ac.uk/news/new-study-explains-why-neural-networks-prefer-flatter-solutions