Computer and Software Engineering (CSE) is at the heart of all modern electronic devices and the core research field that has enabled the current technological revolution. It is not only the basis of current computers and the internet, but also a vital part of mobile phones, portable multimedia devices, biomedical systems, automobiles, aircraft and spaceships. Most of current research in the Sciences and several of the Arts predominantly use hardware and software that comes out of CSE research.

In our group we have strong research activities in the following areas:

• Integrated Circuit Design: analogue IC Design, Neuromorphic Engineering, RF IC Design and RF and Digital Semiconductor Physics
• Signal Processing: audio processing, image processing and the processing of biomedical signals
• Software Engineering: Software components, architectures and middleware, real-time systems and software performance engineering
• Web Engineering: web-application development, data-mining, management and financial applications and machine learning.

Director of Computer and Software Engineering: Dr. André van Schaik

Research Groups:   Computing and Audio Research Integrated circuit design - analogue and mixed mode, low power VLSI, neuromorphic engineering, modelling of biological visual and auditory pathways in software and silicon, smart sensors. Audio research, augmented and virtual reality (3D) audio, human sound localisation, acoustics of listening spaces, multi-channel (64) loudspeaker playback, video and audio communication over wired and wireless/mobile network Image Processing The Image Processing group encompasses diverse applications in signals and systems with particular emphasis on image processing. Software Engineering Software architecture, distributed components and middleware, real-time systems and performance engineering Web Engineering Machine intelligence and signal processing with application to linguistic processing and document analysis, web services, web engineering and e-learning