About Us

The Software Systems Research Group is globally recognised for its cutting-edge research in responsible AI, AI engineering, software engineering and architecture, blockchain, and business processes.

Our vision is to be the prime international science and technology driver for engineering responsible and safe AI systems. We are committed to advancing AI engineering and evaluation methods to remove barriers to AI adoption and accelerate productivity growth.

Our research includes:

  • Responsible and safe AI engineering: develop system‑level AI and agent safety mechanisms and best practices. More about our research on:
  • Explainable and human-centred AI engineering: develop methods to measure human–AI trust and ensure the explainability of AI outputs.
  • AI for processes and supply chains: leverage AI to create trustworthy, compliant, and adaptable business processes and supply chain systems.
  • Responsible and safe quantum AI engineering: design responsible and safe quantum AI/software systems to harness the power of quantum computing.
The group has ~50 research scientists, research engineers, postdocs, plus 20+ research students and 20+ visiting scientists and affiliates.

Our Research Teams

 

The Software Systems Research Group has five research teams:

 
Leadership

Dr Qinghua Lu

Group Leader, Software Systems Research Group

Dr Sunny Lee

Team Leader, Software Engineering for AI Research Team

Dr Chen Wang

Team Leader, Applied AI Systems Research Team

Dr Nick Van Beest

Team Leader, Trustworthy Processes Research Team

Dr Shiping Chen

Team Leader, Architecture Analytics Platform Research Team

Prof Didar Zowghi

Team Leader, AI Diversity and Inclusion Research Team