1. University of Edinburgh
Established in 1583 – One of the World’s top 30 Universities*
*Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2018

2. School of Informatics
Established in 1998 – One of the World’s top 14 Computer Science Departments
*Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2018

3. University of Edinburgh – academic structure
College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine (>2000 staff, 4 Schools)
Biomedical Sciences; Clinical Sciences & Community Health; Molecular & Clinical Medicine;
Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies.
College of Arts Humanities & Social Science (>1400 staff, 11 Schools)
Business; Divinity; Economics; Edinburgh College of Art; Education; Health in
Social Science; History, Classics & Archaeology; Law; Literatures, Languages & Cultures;
Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences; Social & Political Science
College of Science & Engineering (>1800 staff, 7 Schools)
Biological Sciences; Chemistry; Engineering and Electronics; GeoSciences; Mathematics;
Physics;
13,500 staff overall and ~30,000 students per year

4. What is Informatics?
The science of information – how natural and artificial systems
process, store and communicate information
a fundamental Science underpinning all areas of life
Academic, Industrial and Social.
encompasses Computer Science, Data Science, Robotics,
Artificial Intelligence, Speech & Language Technology
Science of Information
Information connects all of us
We work with many different types of people not just within the university
But with many external organisations across the public, private and third sector

5. School of Informatics in a nutshell
~400 staff, inc.:
~120 Academic staff
~130 Research staff
~1600 students:
~940 Undergraduates
~370 MSc Students
~300 PhD Students
Most research power in the UK
Record number of startups & spinouts over the last ten years
Dedicated commercialisation team
As of 30/05/2018
Source for headcount:

6. … 26% Figures include Postgraduate and Undergraduate students
UK - 414
~ 950 Undergraduates
~ 650 Postgraduates
1640 students registered for this session including students from 82 countries outside the UK (30/05/2018)
26%
People’s Republic
of China 291
USA 108
Bulgaria 69
India 61
Lithuania 58
Germany 57
Romania 55
Poland 50
Greece 45
Portugal 15
Italy 32
Slovakia 30
Cyprus 25
Republic
of Ireland 25
France 20
Hungary 16
Malaysia 13
Spain 37
Estonia 9
Austria 8
Latvia 8
Turkey 8
Canada 7
Indonesia 7
Mexico 7
Netherlands 12
Czech Republic 12
Saudi Arabia 7
Hong Kong 6
Islamic Republic
of Iran 6
Singapore 6
Sweden 6
Australia 5
Republic of
Korea 5
Pakistan 5
Thailand 6
Figures include Postgraduate and Undergraduate students
NB only 25% of our students have a UK passport!
26% of our students are female, cf UK figure: 17% of computer science students are female (30/05/2018)
(source: /sfr247-higher-education-student- statistics/subjects)
However, only 17% of our UK students are female, i.e. bang on the national average…
Egypt 4
Switzerland 4
Taiwan 4
Croatia 3
Finland 3
Russia 5
South Africa 5
Denmark 4
Slovenia 4
Belgium 6
Japan 3
Lebanon 3
Norway 3
Argentina 2
Brazil 2
Colombia 2
Kazakhstan 2
Malta 2
Nepal 2
Nigeria 2 …
Trinidad and
Tobago 2
Albania 1
Bolivia 1
Chile 1
Cuba 1
Ecuador 1
El Salvador 1
Ethiopia 1
Guyana 1
Ghana 1

7. School of Informatics Research Institutes
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Intelligent Planning, Proof Planning, Security Engineering, Applied Computational Logic, Knowledge Engineering, Virtual Worlds
COMPUTER SCIENCE: Parallel Computing, Micro Architectures, Wireless Protocols & Apps, Iterative Compilation, Self Timed Circuits
BRAIN: NeuroInformatics, Machine Learning
ROBOTICS: Robotics, Vision
Linkages to EPCC who run high performance computing for the UK effectively
HECTOR - £130M investment, on top of Ibm Blue Gene and Sun HPx machines
Strong interdisciplinary approach can only be attained with scale.
THEORY: Databases Languages, Semantics, Complexity & Alg Concurrency & Modelling, S/W Engineering Theory
LANGUAGE: Natural Language Processing, Multi Modal Interaction, Information Extraction, Speech Synthesis 7

8. philosophy, psychology, language sciences
Linkages
engineering
mathematics
geosciences
medicine
physics
philosophy, psychology, language sciences
The Forum also provides a focus for our external interactions, and we have active research links with all Colleges.
In fact, we have active research links with most Schools in the University.
Here are some (there's not room for them all) of the schools with which we have joint projects right now.
social and political sciences
law
college of art
education

9. Three Centres for Doctoral Training
Plus 5 bids at ‘full application’ stage of 2018 CDT competition:
- Cyber Security & Privacy
- AI & Data Science
- Biomedical AI
- NLP
- Robotics & Autonomous Systems

10. Some of our current CDT partners
Robotics & Autonomous Systems:
Data Science
Institute names have hyperlinks
Pervasive Parallelism

11. Edinburgh & SE Scotland City Region Deal
£1.1bn funding from UK and Scottish Governments
Includes £300m capital budget re innovation
10 year programme “Data Driven Innovation” invented here
University – City – Community engagement
1 major new institute per college for University of Edinburgh
Usher Institute: (CMVM) data-driven health research, medical informatics and population health sciences, within Bio-Quarter
Edinburgh Futures Institute: (CAHSS) social science, art & humanities meets data science to tackle societal issues with fintech, creative industries, local government etc.
Bayes Centre: (CSE) technology which powers the interaction of people, data and systems
Usher Inst.
Edinburgh Futures Inst.
Bayes Centre 11

12. School of Informatics …and more! opens Q3 2018 Appleton Tower
Informatics Forum
…and more!
opens Q3 2018