The Telecommunications Service Engineering group reflects the Department's long-term success in research on communications and telecommunications services. Service engineering is increasingly important in the telecommunications industry, with which group members have strong links. Because of the importance of formal methods in the design of complex telecommunications systems, there is commonality of interest with the Applied Formal Methods group. The CCCN is the focus for research in pattern recognition, computational neuroscience, synthetic sensory processing and biological robotics. Each student is allocated a supervisor, and also a second supervisor.
Students generally meet weekly with their supervisors to discuss progress.
A designated member of staff also acts as a source of general advice to research students. In addition to the Department's research training, research students have access to the University's Graduate Research School. This offers research training on matters such as intellectual property rights, patents, technology transfer, information retrieval and communication skills. Two have gone on to set up a company based on their research here. Mature students with a lower class of degree may be accepted for research in Computing Science if they have substantial work experience of computing.