Lancaster's Communication Systems Research Group focuses on the design, analysis and optimisation of future communication systems.

Data Science focuses on new methods, algorithms and applications of transforming data in real-time and autonomously to meet real-world needs.

Distributed systems are becoming increasingly complex, encompassing areas of technological innovation including cloud computing, multi-core architectures, the Internet of Things and mobile computing.

We come together from different fields including computer science, vision, graphics, machine learning and engineering to develop advances in mobile, pervasive and interactive technologies.

The Networking group have a diverse range of interests, from cutting-edge computer networking technologies to understanding new deployment context.

The Pervasive Computing group at Lancaster conducts world-class research into the design, development, deployment and evaluation of mobile and pervasive computing systems.

Our activities deliver ground-breaking research and postgraduate training through programmes as diverse as an MA in conflict, development and security and an MSc in cyber security.

Software Engineering (SE) has been a major research theme at Lancaster since 1986. In the 2010s our high-impact research spans the range from tool development to theoretical work and focuses on a number of SE themes.