Professor of Applied Mathematics
statistical mechanics, network theory, discrete topology and geometry, mathematical physics, dynamical systems
Benjamin Schäfer, who was a postdoctoral researcher in the Centre for Complex Systems between 2019 and 2021 working with Professor Christian Beck, will receive the prestigious 2026 Ecology Prize of the Viktor & Sigrid Dulger Foundation, awarded by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The prize recognises outstanding achievements by young researchers ... [more]
Yesterday (29th April 2026), the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM), part of the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, hosted the inaugural event of the London Interdisciplinary Music Research Initiative (LIMRI) - bringing together leading researchers and practitioners from across London to explore the science, scholarship, and art of ... [more]
The Statistics and Data Science Clinic, a successful initiative of the Centre for Probability, Statistics and Data Science has received funding from QMUL ERICA fund to continue its operation in 2025/26 and 2026/27. The Clinic, which launched in June 2025, aims to provide a range of services, from statistical advice and new methodology ... [more]
Tyler Kelly is a professor in the Centre for Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory and a Future Leader Fellow working on open mirror geometry for Landau-Ginzburg models. Their inspiring commitment to EDI has been recognised by the appointment to prestigious learned societies and advisory boards, as the London Mathematical Society ... [more]
Vasileios Klimis will be presenting a paper at the 34th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering to be held 5 - 9 July 2026 in Montreal, Canada. It introduces a new way to validate compilers and so make all software created using them potentially more ... [more]
Researchers in the Centre for Theoretical Physics and Astronomy in the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences and the Centre for Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Queen Mary have been awarded £1.4 million from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to fund the four-year ... [more]
Vasileios Klimis is part of a team that have a paper accepted for the 19th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation in Daejeon, Republic of Korea to be held 18-22 May It concerns Noise Fingerprints for Cross-Platform Quantum Simulator Discrepancy Analysis. Quantum algorithms are tested on quantum ... [more]
On Wednesday 6 May, we will host the next Chemistry Seminar in the series, delivered by Dr Antonio Attanzio from Cambridge Display Technology Limited. The seminar will take place in the People's Palace Lecture Theatre 1 (PP1) from 2.00 pm to 3.00 pm. We hope to see you there! Antonio, a former PhD student ... [more]
On Wednesday 29 April, we will host the next Chemistry Seminar in the series, delivered by Dr Robert Menzel from the University of Leeds. The seminar will take place in G. O. Jones Lecture Theatre, from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm. For more details about Dr Menzel's profile and research interests, please visit ... [more]
Paul Curzon and Edmund Robinson were part of the expert panel at the Flip the Script participatory design workshop at the British Computer Society offices. The aim of the meeting was to co-develop a new practice model that can help Computing departments across the UK to support better progression and ... [more]
On 4-8 May 2026, several CMAI researchers will participate at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2026). ICASSP is the leading conference in the field of signal processing and the flagship event of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. As in previous years, the Centre for Multimodal AI ... [more]
Vasileios Klimis has presented a paper on "Beyond Specification Conformance" at the 48th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering in Rio de Janeiro It introduces a new way, based on a mathematical logic, that complements specifications to take into account the needs of users to improve the quality of ... [more]
The first QMUL AI: Brains and Bits symposium was held on 13 April 2026. It brought together researchers from across Science and Engineering to discuss the Fundamentals of AI including issues of how AI works and how it should work. It included talks from investigators from Biology, the Blizzard Institute, Physics, Maths, ... [more]
On 23-27 April, CMAI researchers will participate at the Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026), taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ICLR is the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of the branch of artificial intelligence called representation learning, but generally referred to as deep learning. ... [more]
Raymond Hu has been awarded a New Investigator research grant worth £646,000 by EPSRC. The project is called "DymSUM - Distributed Dynamic Software Updates using Multiparty Session Types" and investigates a theory-based approach to how distributed software can evolve while running. The project involves collaboration with industrial partners at Monzo Bank ... [more]
CMAI PhD student Alexander Williams recently completed a 3 month research fellowship at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) following a successful application to the UKRI Policy Internship Scheme. POST is an impartial research and knowledge exchange service based in the UK Parliament. They work to ensure cutting-edge research ... [more]
Shalom Lappin is part of a team centred at the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP) at the University of Gothenburg that have published new work on a comparison of Humans vs Vision-Language Models It proposes a unified way to measure narrative coherence in writing about about ... [more]
A team including Ekaterina Ivanova from the Centre for Human-Centred Computing have a paper published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Haptics. It shows that physically linking a child with a more experienced writer through a haptic interface when practicing handwriting leads to improvement in their handwriting skill. Abstract: The ... [more]
QMUL has joined the Einstein Telescope (ET) collaboration with a new ET Research Unit supported by School of Mathematical Sciences and the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences. ET is a European project, driven by an international collaboration, for an innovative gravitational-wave observatory. It will be part of a third-generation ... [more]
Søren Riis and Marc Roth are both joint winners of the SafeAI Benchmark Competition "Humanity's Last Exam". The linked paper "A benchmark of expert-level academic questions to assess AI capabilities", co-authored by FACT researchers Søren Riis and Marc Roth, has been published in Nature. This paper accompanies the ... [more]
