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"I’d urge you to consider a career in AI and data science," PhD student Michelle Seng Ah Lee told black state school students recently. "It would benefit industries and society, making sure diverse backgrounds are represented in algorithms we release into the wild."

"It is absolutely possible to get to Cambridge using 'the road less travelled'," says award-winning PhD student Sian Gooding who, after dropping out of school, went to sell PCs in a high-street retailer – and got hooked on computing.

PhD student Mahwish Arif arrived here following a stint with the Pakistan Space Agency, a Commonwealth Scholarship and an MSc at the University of Edinburgh. She tells us about her route to Computer Science at Cambridge.

Meet Dr Ildiko Pete, a postdoc in our Cambridge Cybercrime Centre where she works at the intersection of machine learning and cybersecurity.

Using body sound recordings to predict Covid-19, and employing AI to improve cancer treatment, were among the projects discussed at our Healthcare Research Showcase last week. The event can also be viewed online.

At a time when concerns about data sharing and privacy have soared, students had a rare opportunity to experiment with Federated Learning – a technique for training machine learning models across devices without sharing the raw data they hold.

Srinivasan Keshav, the Robert Sansom Professor of Computer Science here, has been named the founding Vice-Chair of a new Special Interest Group on Energy set up by the Association for Computing Machinery.

The Data Trusts Initiative – an interdisciplinary programme based here – is offering funding for research to bridge the gap between discussions about how data trusts could work and their practical application.

Undergraduate and MPhil students of this Department took the crown in an international cyber security competition last week, featuring in the three winning teams at the event.