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27 Nov 2024 - DPhil student Fenglin Liu wins IET William James Award for Biomedical Engineering

Research work explores how algorithms can use data from analogous diseases to prepare analysis tools for deployment in new pandemics…

23 Sep 2024 - University of Oxford partners with Aioi R&D Lab – Oxford to support the next generation of AI experts in tackling real-world challenges

Graduates can spend up to ten weeks working on live industry-led projects across Machine Learning, Robotics and Vision, Control and Verification and Cyber-Physical Systems.…

10 Sep 2024 - FAIRsharing announced as one of success stories of EC BY-COVID project

The cross-disciplinary resource has enabled discoverability of and access to heterogeneous, yet interlinked and organised data, building a digital space for infectious disease data…

11 Jul 2024 - Professor Tom Adcock recognised for excellence in Divisional Teaching Awards

Nominations highlighted his ‘enormous contribution’ to the high-quality teaching of Engineering Science at Oxford and contributions to outreach activities…

29 May 2024 - DPhil Student Miroslav Gasparek wins Imperial College Emerging Alumni Leader Award 2024 for entrepreneurial activities

Gasparek and colleagues aim to develop the world’s first cell-based platform to deliver high-quality and accessible mRNA medicines to millions of patients…

21 Feb 2024 - Winners of the 2023/24 MPLS Awards for Outstanding Research Supervision announced

Five Engineering Professors have received awards for going above and beyond in nurturing and supporting their colleagues, by demonstrating inspirational leadership and enabling people to flourish in their careers.…

24 Jan 2024 - Lockdown air quality boost helped 41% reduction in adult asthma hospital stays

Reductions in Nitrogen Dioxide and Particular Matter combined with fine weather during 2020 led to cleaner air conditions compared to previous five year average…

05 Dec 2023 - Oxford Chemical Engineers win top prize at 2023 IChemE Global Awards

Collaborative 'Rapid test for Covid-19' project won the 'Outstanding Achievement in Chemical and Process Engineering Award' plus two additional awards …

04 Jul 2023 - Harrison Steel and Mihir Sheth named Young Engineers of the Year by Royal Academy of Engineering

As overall winner of the Awards, which are given to five UK engineers each year, Professor Steel is also recipient of the prestigious Sir George Macfarlane medal…

14 Jun 2023 - MSc in Energy Systems at the University of Oxford prepares to enter its fifth year

Empowering generations to make a global transformation…

12 May 2023 - Covid-19 has reduced diverse urban interactions

Mobility-related data show the pandemic has had a lasting effect, limiting the breadth of places people visit in cities.…

27 Mar 2023 - COVID-19 Lockdowns Show Positive Impacts on Traffic Flow and Air Quality in Oxford

Researchers looked at how the COVID-19 lockdown measures impacted the traffic flow and the concentrations of pollutants in Oxford’s atmosphere. …

19 Jan 2023 - Three Engineering academics receive MPLS Outstanding Research Supervision award

University awards celebrate colleagues who demonstrate leadership and best practice by nurturing and supporting research colleagues …

10 Oct 2022 - David Witt 1932-2022

David Witt, who was a lecturer at the department from 1959-1999, and fellow of Merton College, passed away on 3rd October, aged 90…

06 Oct 2022 - Man Group extends funding for Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance

Extension takes Man Group’s commitment to 20 years of continuous funding and underscores the firm’s commitment to ground-breaking machine learning research in quantitative finance…

23 Sep 2022 - Study finds night-time blood pressure assessment important in diagnosing hypertension

When undiagnosed and untreated, hypertension (also known as high blood pressure) causes cardiovascular disease, which is one of the main causes of death and disability in the UK…

15 Sep 2022 - Researchers represent Centre at annual conference for Research Software Engineers

Five researchers from FAIRsharing and the larger Data Readiness Group at the University of Oxford attended RSECon22 in early September, presenting a poster and several talks during the conference…

18 Aug 2022 - OpenAIRE and FAIRsharing collaborate to provide knowledge to researchers across disciplines

FAIRsharing records from OpenAIRE Research Graph to help users discover relationships to their standard of interest, alongside repositories that implement that standard and the data policies…

21 Jul 2022 - DPhil student honoured with Diana Award

Engineering Science DPhil student and Rhodes Scholar Nadja Yang wins award for social action with her engineering, sustainability and intercultural work…

19 Jul 2022 - RoboCup Bangkok 2022

12 Jul 2022 - Two Engineering researchers awarded University Commercial Impact Award

Professor Jeroen Bergmann and Dr Rita Hendricusdottir receive MPLS award for regulatory technology to support medical device innovators…

07 Jul 2022 - Language modelling researchers to present at North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

21 Jun 2022 - Funding by Royal Society to enable international exchange for developing open-source platform for cardiac monitoring

Royal Academy of Engineering Research fellow, Dr Tingting Zhu receives funding to lead on an international collaboration …

16 Jun 2022 - Oxford research teams to benefit from share of £7m UKRI award

The University has been awarded more than £7 million from UK Research and Innovation’s Impact Acceleration Account (IAA), which supports the ‘best, brightest and most disruptive ideas’ from UK research institutions, including funding for engineering and physical science innovation…

02 Jun 2022 - Summer Update

12 May 2022 - Results of Research Excellence Framework 2021 published

In Unit of Assessment 12, 71% of Oxford’s submission was judged to be 4* (the highest score available, for research quality that is world-leading)…

28 Apr 2022 - FAIRsharing and FAIR Cookbook to enhance the coordination of FAIR for COVID-19 response and beyond

Oxford e-Research Centre led FAIR-enabling resources among core set of tools highlighted by an independent expert report to the European Commission…

08 Apr 2022 - Dr Binjian Nie highly commended for clean energy research

Department Lecturer in Chemical Engineering is recognised by the Institute of Chemical Engineers…

11 Mar 2022 - Oxford e-Research Centre goes from strength to strength with Mini TESA expansion

One of our growing research teams has moved into Oxford’s Mini TESA, a new world-leading multi-disciplinary hub and co-working space for energy systems research…

25 Feb 2022 - Former Global Insight Fellow designs device to combat loss of muscle strength in respirator patients

The non-invasive medical device keeps patients’ muscles engaged to prevent weakness and atrophy and enable earlier release from ventilation…

14 Feb 2022 - OxVent ventilator set to be manufactured at-scale

OxVent, a rapidly deployable and scalable low-cost ventilator, has been approved for development at scale paving the way for its use as a social enterprise. …

17 Jan 2022 - DPhil for Rasheed

11 Jan 2022 - Winter Update

20 Dec 2021 - The Sound of Contagion performance of music generated and inspired by Artificial Intelligence

10 Dec 2021 - Tracking endangered sea turtles with hardware the size of a pound coin

06 Dec 2021 - COVID-19 Rapid Review Initiative report shows COVID research is freely accessible, but data sharing and preprinting are low

The Centre-based FAIRsharing has contributed to strengthen data policies of the journals and publishers participating in the initiative, to make results of COVID-19 articles available for scrutiny and reproducibility.…

13 Oct 2021 - BY-COVID project launched to address pandemic preparedness

This EU supported project aims to ensure that data on SARS-CoV-2 and other infectious diseases can be found and used by everyone, and our Centre-led FAIRsharing and the FAIR Cookbook will contribute to the goals.…

16 Sep 2021 - Amanda Matthes & Jonas Beuchert track sea turtles in Cape Verde to test new conservation technology

02 Sep 2021 - AI test screens for COVID-19 26% faster than lateral flow tests

An Artificial Intelligence test performed by the bedside in 10 minutes quickly and safely triages patients presenting with COVID-19, an Oxford study has shown.…

17 Jun 2021 - Impact Award for DPhil’s role in developing rapid diagnostic test used in UK airports

MPLS COVID-19 Award recognises Boon Lim’s contribution to designing early experiments, overseeing clinical trials and setting up airport testing labs…

07 Jun 2021 - EPSRC funding announced to tackle resistance to antibiotics

Researchers aim to avert an antibiotics apocalypse where current treatments become ineffective due to antibiotic resistance, through new ‘drug-free’ ways of treating illnesses.…

04 Jun 2021 - Royal Society Award recognises researcher’s pandemic modelling effort

Dr. Saiful Khan has received an Early Career Investigator Award for voluntary efforts in data visualization and visual analytics aimed at combating COVID-19…

19 May 2021 - Dr Arun Majumdar, Stanford University, to give Maurice Lubbock Memorial Lecture 2021

Stanford's Jay Precourt Provostial Chair Professor was nominated by President Obama as Founding Director of the US Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy…

15 May 2021 - Oxford University spin-out reveals aim to be the first company to put cultured meat on UK shelves

Ivy Farm will produce sustainable, guilt-free sausages by 2023, followed by meatballs and beefburgers…

12 May 2021 - Royal Society Award recognises researcher’s pandemic modelling effort

Dr. Saiful Khan has received an Early Career Investigator Award for voluntary efforts in data visualization and visual analytics aimed at combating COVID-19…

21 Apr 2021 - Oxford University and Prenetics announce landmark collaboration to scale rapid testing tech globally

Collaboration agreement will further develop the award-winning OxLAMPTM technology, a rapid, molecular testing technology for infectious diseases…

08 Apr 2021 - New papers from Control Group members to appear at Control and Learning Conferences this summer

17 Mar 2021 - DPhil student is awarded Venture Capital Fellowship

The Included VC fellowship will provide DPhil student Dr. Alexey Youssef with skills and access into the world of Venture Capital…

16 Feb 2021 - Two recent successes at The Engineer - Collaborate to Innovate (C2I) Awards

The annual awards, supported by The Engineer magazine, celebrate inspiring UK technology innovations and ways in which engineers collaborate to respond to the big challenges of society…

27 Jan 2021 - Engineering Science DPhils developed App to improve vaccine rollout for housebound patients

VaxiMap has already helped find the optimal route for more than 61,000 GP home visit vaccinations in Britain…

20 Jan 2021 - COVID-19 Rapid Review publishers agree to mandate data deposition

Agreement ensures transparency and speed of peer review of COVID-19 articles and makes results available for scrutiny and reproducibility…

20 Jan 2021 - January lockdown had 1/3 less national impact on movement than the March shutdown

UK population movement falls 59%, compared to -89% in March, shows Oxford COVID-19 Monitor…

15 Dec 2020 - Jan Brauner, Mrinank Sharma et al publish paper in Science

14 Dec 2020 - UK VIS Experts Volunteer their Time and Expertise to Help Combat COVID-19

Volunteers support modelling scientists and epidemiologists in the Scottish COVID-19 Response Consortium…

12 Dec 2020 - AI test rules out a COVID-19 diagnosis within one hour in Emergency Departments

Artificial Intelligence test has been shown to be able to rapidly screen patients arriving in Emergency Departments for COVID-19…

23 Nov 2020 - Low-cost ventilator wins at E&T Innovation Awards

OxVent has been recognised as one of the best innovations of the year by the Institute of Engineering and Technology…

04 Nov 2020 - Rapid COVID-19 test now in use at Heathrow and trials at Hong Kong International Airport

Oxsed RaViD Direct, developed at Oxford University, is being used at Heathrow and trialled at Hong Kong International Airport…

27 Oct 2020 - Jan Brauner and Sören Mindermann speak at the German Centre for Infection Research

13 Oct 2020 - Oxford placements go virtual for three students from Centrale Nantes engineering school

Three French students joined the Department virtually this year to work on projects relating to in-networking computing and AI for healthcare, working with leading academics…

05 Oct 2020 - Understanding the global impact of COVID-19 through Data Science

Oxford COVID-19 (OxCOVID19) database and tracker is a powerful tool for understanding the pandemic and predicting its future course, using the combined power of Statistical, Mathematical Modelling and Machine Learning techniques…

29 Sep 2020 - AIMS paper accepted as spotlight presentation at NeurIPS 2020

03 Sep 2020 - Knowledge engineering for patient care: lessons from COVID-19

A new approach to rapid translation of clinical guidelines into point of care support services has produced a novel pattern for designing and deploying AI systems across healthcare …

17 Aug 2020 - Oxford developers of rapid Covid-19 test awarded RAEng President's Special Award

Professor Cui and his team are one of the winners of the Royal Academy of Engineering's President's Special Awards for Pandemic Service for their rapid viral RNA test for COVID-19…

12 Aug 2020 - Virtual DHOx2020 summer school our biggest ever Digital humanities event

DHOx2020 online event attracts record numbers of participants from around the world…

03 Aug 2020 - Adjunct Lecturership for Rahul

31 Jul 2020 - New AI test identifies COVID-19 within one hour in emergency departments

Infectious disease and clinical machine learning experts at the University of Oxford have developed an Artificial Intelligence test that can rapidly screen for COVID-19…

24 Jul 2020 - UNIQ opportunity to learn about Engineering at Oxford goes virtual

55 state school students took part in online lectures, site visits and admissions workshops…

07 Jul 2020 - Oxford scientists form spinout to launch rapid Covid-19 virus test

Covid-19 pandemic demands availability of highly accessible and rapid testing around the world to enable countries to emerge from lockdown with confidence…

07 Jul 2020 - Air and noise quality study will help inform Oxford City’s future environmental policy approach

Researchers at Birmingham and Oxford Universities have secured £207,000 funding to investigate the impacts of COVID-19 related public health measures upon air and noise quality in Oxford. …

25 Jun 2020 - DPhil student wins Most Innovative Idea

Selena Milanovic and teammates compete in hackathon with innovative idea …

05 Jun 2020 - Free Global Guidance tool launched by Oxford researchers to help medical device innovators

Tool has been used over 1,500 times including for Covid-19 related innovations…

28 May 2020 - Knowledge hub developed to track SARS-CoV antibody studies

Worldwide team of researchers partners with Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force …

15 May 2020 - JADE AI supercomputing facility supports efforts in development of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine

Facility being used for efforts in development of a vaccine, anti-viral drugs and understanding the molecular architecture of the virus…

04 May 2020 - DPhil student gains 2nd place in IEEE ISBI 2020 Best Paper Award

New technique combining eye-tracking data and machine learning is recognised by the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging 2020…

21 Apr 2020 - COVID-19: UK population movement decreases by 98%

Oxford researchers create Impact Monitor to reveal how life in the UK is changing during the pandemic…

08 Apr 2020 - FAIRsharing announces COVID-19 resource collection

Collating coronavirus, clinical trials, public health and patient databases, registries and standards in one place…

01 Apr 2020 - Using wearable technology to monitor COVID-19 patients

System being used in John Warin isolation ward at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital…

31 Mar 2020 - Ventilator project gets green light from UK government

OxVent project to proceed to next stage of testing for safety and usability…

20 Mar 2020 - Oxford and King's College London developing prototype for rapidly deployable ventilator

Interdisciplinary team of engineers and medics addressing ways to increase UK’s capacity for ventilator manufacture…

18 Mar 2020 - Oxford scientists develop rapid testing technology for COVID-19

Project initiated by Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research in China, with experiments performed in the Department of Engineering Science…

Case Studies (14 results found for 'Covid')

Transformative solutions to antibiotic resistance

More than 1.2 million people already die each year as a direct result of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections*. But this number could soon rise dramatically: as resistance spreads, an increasing number of infections are becoming harder – and sometimes impossible – to treat as antibiotics become less effective.

MSc in Energy Systems at the University of Oxford prepares to enter its fifth year

Empowering generations to make a global transformation

Developing pioneering technology to boost aircraft engine efficiency and lifespan

Researchers at the Department of Engineering Science have developed new approaches to cool high pressure blade tips in aviation – which will improve engine efficiency and lifespan, and cut carbon emissions.

Artificial intelligence and big data help rapid screening antibodies

Nearly two and a half years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the emergence of new variants of interest of SARS-CoV-2 has prompted the development of a broad range of neutralizing antibodies. Variants such as Delta (B.1.617.2 lineage) and Omicron (BA.1 and BA.2) have been reported to exhibit immune evasion against some current therapeutic antibodies. Evolving SARS-CoV-2 requires rapid prediction of antibody binding to new variants and the development of broadly neutralizing antibodies.

Researcher Spotlight: Prof. Jennifer Rohn

This interview introduces Beyond Antibiotics researcher, Prof. Jenny Rohn, who is developing organ-on-chip models for antimicrobial testing and leading the public engagement efforts.

Digital Underground Construction

A substantial amount of new infrastructure is required to cope with growing populations and the effects of climate change ‒ and efficient use of underground space appears the most viable and sustainable solution. The ‘FOCUS’ project is innovating in the underground construction sector to provide more cost-effective and sustainable critical infrastructure.

The Role of Robotics

Recent Oxford Post-Doc Romeo Orsolino discusses the role of robotics in manufacturing and his new employer, technology company and electric vehicle maker Arrival

The story of SEND

Professor Lionel Tarassenko, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Head of Department between 2014 and 2019, tells the story of SEND (System for Electronic Notification & Documentation), the mainstay of vital-sign monitoring in hospitals in Oxford and South Warwickshire

Student profile: Nadja Yang

Nadja Yang is a Rhodes Scholar and student at Keble College pursuing a DPhil in Systems Engineering, where she conducts research on the Urban Bioeconomy, a concept to help cities become more sustainable and productive in terms of its biological resources. Nadja was recently elected President of European Young Engineers and 2021 winner of the McKinsey Achievement Award in the Women's Achievement category.

OxVent – simple and scalable ventilator

In March 2020, in response to the UK Government’s Ventilator Challenge, students, academic engineers and medics at Oxford and King’s College London built a completely new, safe, simple and scalable ventilator from scratch in a week. This amazing team with IBME students, staff and academics playing key roles was forged during intense round-the-clock work in the first wave and has developed through to OxVent Limited, the social venture, today.

OxLAMP® – accurate and rapid COVID-19 test with no specialist equipment needed

Researchers at the Department of Engineering Science and at the Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research (OSCAR) developed a test very early on in the COVID-19 pandemic to detect in under 30 minutes whether a person is infected with the virus and is still infectious. *Image credit: Jude Palmer/Royal Academy of Engineering*

Alumni turns to nature to help save the planet

How does L’Occitane en Provence, a business steeped in the poetry of the natural world, deal with the grim realities of climate change? Engineering Alumni Adrien Geiger, L’Occitane’s first ever Group Sustainability Officer, explains.

Student Profile: Tom Commins

Tom Commins is a second year DPhil student based at Magdalen College, specialising in the development of materials for body armour. Before his DPhil, Tom studied here for his MEng in Engineering Science, where he worked with Nickel alloys and developed his interest in materials engineering. We spoke to Tom to find out more.

Shaping solar energy to meet demands

Odqa is a solar power spinout company from the Department of Engineering Science and the Said Business School. Odqa is working on specialist technology to ensure that solar power can meet our energy demands, be cost effective and become a viable replacement for non-renewable energy sources. We spoke to CEO, Gediz Karaca, to find out more.