Department of Informatics

The Department of Informatics is a vibrant research-led department with 75 per cent of staff research active.

Our world leading research in Computational Intelligence and Socially Responsible Computing has significant input to our teaching at Undergraduate and Postgraduate level.

The use of Computing in a Business environment, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and Computer Games Programming are our specialisms.

All of these subjects are taught by excellent teachers and active researchers with international recognition for their research.

Informatics is a department with outstanding:

Facilities exemplified by the games development studios

Teaching as evidenced by MSc students winning the BCS Machine Intelligence Competition.

Research from the world leading Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility and the Centre for Computational Intelligence.

Links with industry through the Industrial Liaison Committee, guest lectures, our student placement programme and commercial research.

Whether you are interested in studying here, working on research with us or involving staff in helping you deliver your company solutions we provide a professional supportive approach in a great environment.

Skin cancer detection tool

Hundreds of lives could be saved thanks to a new tool being developed at De Montfort University (DMU) that could help improve the early detection of skin cancer|. 

DMU, working in collaboration with the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust’s (UHL) Dermatology Department, has been awarded £75,000 to create a new device to help in the early detection of malignant melanoma skin cancer.