King’s College London is one of the top 10 UK universities in the world (QS World University Rankings, 2020), and in the top seven UK universities for research earnings with an overall annual income of just over £778 million.
King’s has over 31,000 students (including more than 12,800 postgraduates) from some 150 countries and over 8,500 employees. King’s provides world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) 84% of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*).
King’s has influenced many of the advances that shape modern life, such as research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar. The 2014 REF results placed the Department of Informatics at King’s in the top 10 of Computer Science and Informatics departments in the UK, when measured by the Power Ranking, with 92% of its research outputs rated as world leading or internationally excellent. The Department hosts research groups focusing on algorithms and data analysis, cybersecurity, distributed artificial intelligence, human centred computing, reasoning and planning, and software systems. Cross-cutting hubs in health, security, urban living and finance provide a virtual clustering of researchers from all parts of the Department, with the fifth hub (autonomous systems) providing a technology focus for the Department as a whole. The Department also leads the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence, which is training a new generation of researchers in model-based AI approaches and their use in ensuring the safety and trustworthiness of AI systems. Interdisciplinary research and teaching initiatives are being developed with other departments in the Faculty of Natural & Mathematical Sciences and across King’s.

King’s College London is one of the top 10 UK universities in the world (QS World University Rankings, 2020), and in the top seven UK universities for research earnings with an overall annual income of just over £778 million.
King’s has over 31,000 students (including more than 12,800 postgraduates) from some 150 countries and over 8,500 employees. King’s provides world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) 84% of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*).
King’s has influenced many of the advances that shape modern life, such as research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar. The 2014 REF results placed the Department of Informatics at King’s in the top 10 of Computer Science and Informatics departments in the UK, when measured by the Power Ranking, with 92% of its research outputs rated as world leading or internationally excellent. The Department hosts research groups focusing on algorithms and data analysis, cybersecurity, distributed artificial intelligence, human centred computing, reasoning and planning, and software systems. Cross-cutting hubs in health, security, urban living and finance provide a virtual clustering of researchers from all parts of the Department, with the fifth hub (autonomous systems) providing a technology focus for the Department as a whole. The Department also leads the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence, which is training a new generation of researchers in model-based AI approaches and their use in ensuring the safety and trustworthiness of AI systems. Interdisciplinary research and teaching initiatives are being developed with other departments in the Faculty of Natural & Mathematical Sciences and across King’s.