Our research is driven by ambitious ideas and real-world challenges, and is supported by funding from a wide range of sources. We work closely with partners in banking, technology and government in the UK and around the world, and our work brings together expertise from across disciplines.
Our research groups are focused, broad-based disciplinary teams, helping shape the department’s strategic priorities.
We also lead and contribute to a range of UCL-wide research centres, which bring together large, interdisciplinary teams to tackle complex challenges.
Research Groups
Bioinformatics
The Bioinformatics group develops and apply state-of-the-art computational techniques to tackle problems now arising in the life sciences, particularly those now appearing in the post-genomic era.
Financial Computing and Analytics
The Financial Computing and Analytics research group investigates socio-economic systems using methods from computer science, applied mathematics, computational statistics and network theory.
Human-Computer Interaction
The Human-Computer Interaction Group, part of the UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC), studies interactions between people and technology.
Information and Decision Systems
IDS focuses on effective and efficient collection, storage, retrieval, analysis and use of information and data, and subsequent techniques to automate and inform decision-making.
Information Security
The Information Security Research Group's research addresses key technical aspects of information security and privacy, such as cryptography and system security.
Intelligent Robotics
The Intelligent Robotics Research Group, based at UCL East and HereEast, is a leading centre for research in cognitive robotics and AI, focused on real-world applications.
Intelligent Systems
The Intelligent Systems Group conducts research into the theory and application of artificial intelligence.
Multi-Sensory Devices
Multi-Sensory Devices (MSD) works at the intersection of embedded systems, applied robotics and actuator technology to create new forms of interactive multi-sensory user experiences.
Programming Principles, Logic, and Verification Group
The Programming Principles, Logic, and Verification group's research produces mathematically rigorous concepts and techniques that aid in the construction and analysis of computer and information.
Software Systems Engineering
The Software Systems Engineering group investigates engineering principles, methods, notations, infrastructures and tools for distributed and mobile software systems.
Systems and Networks
The Systems and Networks Research Group at UCL is a global leader in the design, building, and analysis of networked computer systems.
Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics
Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics' research spans from real-time computer graphics rendering to human factors issues in virtual reality.
Vision and Imaging Science
Computer Vision and Image Processing aims to extract useful information from images and movies using mathematical techniques including geometry, statistics, physics and statistical decision theory.
Research Centres
UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence
The AI Centre leads foundational research in AI, creating new technologies and advising on their use in science, industry and society. It brings together researchers tackling core AI challenges.
UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC)
UCLIC is a world-leading centre for human–computer interaction research and teaching, studying people’s interactions with technology using insights from computer and human sciences.
UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies
The UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies (CBT) is a cross-sector platform supporting the adoption of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies across society and the economy.
The Bloomsbury Centre for Bioinformatics
The Bloomsbury Centre for Bioinformatics, a UCL–Birkbeck collaboration, works across protein structure, genomics, statistical genetics, systems biology and more.
The Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML)
The Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning unites stats, machine learning and real-world applications across UCL – from astrophysics to the life sciences.
UCL Centre for Inverse Problems
The UCL Centre for Inverse Problems is a fast-growing, cross-disciplinary hub linking pure and applied maths, statistics, and fields like physics, engineering and biology.
UCL Centre for Research on Evolution, Search and Testing (CREST)
The Centre for Research on Evolution, Search and Testing (CREST) develops ways to analyse and improve software, using program dependence, information theory and optimisation algorithms.
Global Disability Innovation Hub (GDI Hub)
The Global Disability Innovation Hub (GDI Hub) is a research and practice centre driving disability innovation worldwide. Active in 35 countries, it has reached 21 million people since its launch.
UCL Hawkes Institute
The UCL Hawkes Institute is a multi-disciplinary research grouping at the intersection of UCL’s engineering and health activities that focuses on advancing healthcare technology.
London Centre for Nanotechnology
The London Centre for Nanotechnology is a UK-based multidisciplinary centre tackling global challenges in information, healthcare, energy and environment through nanoscience and nanotechnology.
UCLQ Quantum Science and Technology Institute
The UCL Quantum Science & Technology Institute (UCLQ), founded in 2014, coordinates and supports fast-growing quantum research across UCL’s departments and disciplines.
