Welcome to the Department of Computer Science

The Department of Computer Science at Royal Holloway, University of London is an international centre of excellence in research and teaching. Medium-sized and friendly with a strong research expertise in Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computing and Bioinformatics, we offer an innovative and up-to-date teaching programme.

In the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008, 99% of the department's research publications were rated as of international quality, with over a quarter recognised as world leading, and a futher half internationally excellent.

In the 2008 National Student Survey the Department was second equal in the UK (first equal in England) rankings for Computer Science departments. This strong vote of support by our students - an overall satisfaction rating of 97% - reflects our innovative curriculum, the high level of support given to students starting out in computer science, and the breadth of our research-linked final year options.

Latest news is that this department is listed eighth overall in The Times "Good University Guide 2010" rankings for Computer Science.

Thinking of studying here?

Come along to one of our College Open Days or a special Undergraduate UCAS Open Day and find out more!

The Department is participating in the following UCAS Days (for UCAS applicants), on Wednesdays:

• 3 February 2010
• 17 February 2010
• 3 March 2010

We look forward to showing you the Department!

Latest News

Professor Robert Merton, Harvard Business School, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics, presents the 2010 Kolmogorov Lecture: Observations on the Science of Finance in the Practice of Finance: Past, Present, and Future. 6pm, 23rd February 2010, Windsor Building Auditorium, admission free.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Script analysis - Prof Fionn Murtagh and Adam Ganz of the Department of Media Arts have analysed these US television scripts and decoded the structure and hidden patterns in meaning that make them so successful - more. This work has just featured in The Guardian

A Chinese translation of the first edition of the monograph Digraphs by J. Bang-Jensen and G. Gutin has been published. The current, second edition of this book has also been published by Springer on 17/12/08. More

Pioneering software robots to aid businesses - A joint venture, using intelligent agent technology developed Dr Kostas Stathis's research team in the Department of Computer Science, has been launched with Thinking SAFE Ltd, a software company supplying data backup, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions to clients of all sizes.

Research initiated here in 2006 by Dr Alberto Paccanaro and colleagues from Yale is reported in their recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, highlighted on both ScienceDaily and Science websites. Quantifying environmental adaptation of metabolic pathways in metagenomics describes new mathematical models for analyzing huge amounts of data in different ocean habitats (temperature, salinity etc) and metabolic activity in marine micro-organisms, which could be valuable biosensors for detecting environmental change.

New software for metabolomic data analysis
Alberto Paccanaro and colleagues have been working with Peter Bramley and Paul Fraser (School of Biological Sciences) to develop BioSynLab®. More

Undergraduate Scholarships for 2010-2011
£1,000 in the first year
The Scholarship Challenge
Donald Davies Scholarship

Postgraduate Scholarships for 2010-2011