Faculty news

Students in UCL’s Industry Exchange Network (IXN) have developed AI-powered, gesture-based games with UCL spinout MotionInput Games to make gaming more accessible for autistic learners.

Outstanding staff, students and PGTAs were awarded prizes at the annual CEE-FES Education Awards.

A new AI-assisted brain atlas that can help visualise the human brain in unprecedented detail has been developed by UCL researchers, in a major step forward for neuroscience and neuroimaging.

UCL marked Black History Month with From Past to Progress, celebrating Black achievement through talks on the Harlem Renaissance, decolonising education, and representation in science.

UCL Dynamic Systems Lab presented a novel AI approach to learning chaotic systems in a linear way at ICLR 2025, Singapore.

DSL presented “Advances in Dynamical Prediction and Variational Learning” at ICML 2025, Canada

Ilham Wicaksono (MSc Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development) has won a prize in OpenAI’s global hackathon on red-teaming its newly released open-source model, GPT-OSS-20.

UCL researchers Dr Charles-Antoine Collins-Fekete and Prof Maria Hawkins were awarded MRC funding to pilot Octopath, an AI tool set to transform cancer diagnosis in the NHS.

A delegation of senior Microsoft leaders visited UCL to engage with students and discuss the future of artificial intelligence in education, innovation and industry collaboration. 

Biomanufacturing Powerhouse: UCL-Cytiva Centre of Excellence Celebrates Landmark Collaboration, Paving the Way for Future Biomanufacturing Leaders

The National X-ray Computed Tomography facility (NXCT) is the UK’s national research hub for laboratory-based X-ray computed tomography imaging.

The time to carry out diagnostic MRI scans for dementia can be cut to one-third of their standard length, according to a new study led by UCL researchers.

The Spiers' Prize for Outreach is awarded to any member of IPEM who demonstrates they have improved education, raised public awareness, or inspired future generations in the field of Medical Physics.

A team led by UCL and Imperial College London researchers has shown for the first time how life-saving antibiotics called polymyxins pierce the armour of harmful bacteria.

Students in UCL’s A-COMPS (Apply Competitively into STEM) mentoring programme gained top results in 2025, with nearly a third achieving three A*s and many progressing to Russell Group universities.