Oxford e-Research Centre | Department of Engineering Science | University of Oxford
Enabling innovation: from data science research to application
Oxford e-Research Centre
We are a multidisciplinary data science research and education institute, part of the University of Oxford's Department of Engineering Science. We research and implement innovative digital methodologies, information and computational solutions for academic research and industrial applications. The Centre provides a world-leading environment for over 50 staff, including academics, students, data scientists, postdocs, as well as professional research software and knowledge engineers, who work together on interdisciplinary projects for the benefit of research and society.
Our impact-driven data science projects, products and infrastructure
What we do
How we do it
- Informatics
- Cloud computing
- Machine learning & analytics
- High performance computing
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Software engineering
Our expertise spans across data science domains and technologies. Via a broad range of collaborations, we deliver novel methodological, technical, social and policy advancements across disciplines: physical sciences and engineering; arts, humanities and social sciences; energy and environment; the biological and medical sciences; as well as information and library sciences.
Our work is diverse and international. Our academics advise governments and other organisations on strategic data-drive decisions, work with policy makers on open and reproducible science agendas, consult for industry and publishers, collaborate with libraries and research communities around the world. Our academic staff run courses, training modules and events, as well as host and supervise under- and post-graduates, preparing the new generation of data scientists, scholars and entrepreneurs.
DPhil student Erin Canning won the ASIS&T 2025 Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship Award
Technology Demonstrator Showing How CHERI Can Protect Against Cyberattacks
Knowledge Engineer Dr Allyson Lister
SKA radio telescope arrays in South Africa. Image courtesy of SKA Organisation
Dr Philippe Rocca Serra at the FAIRplus Innovation and SME Forum, Hinxton
Professor David De Roure gives the opening keynote talk at the Internet of Things India Congress in Bangalore (Image: David Murray-Rust)
Participants at the inaugural JADE Day
Hands-on “Stop the flood” activity at Super Science Saturday
The Lovelace engine visits the Centre. This musical machine was build to celebrate the work pioneering computer scientist Ada Lovelace
Participants at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS)
Ramon Grannell and Prakyat Gailani at AIBC24 in India
Professor of Language Modelling Janet B. Pierrehumbert. Photograph by Ian Wallman
Infographic showing the impact of the Minas Gerais 2020 weather event. A workshop funded by the Met Office Climate Science for Service Partnership Brazil focused on event attribution, a method which uses science to assess climate events and assign causes to them.
Networking at the inaugural JADE Day
Unlocking Musicology event 'Narratives through Data'
Music Encoding and Linked Data (MELD) framework's ‘Lohengrin TimeMachine’, a digital companion to a musicological study of leitmotifs in Wagner’s opera.
ELIXIR UK Dash Mentoring Project
Participants at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS)
Students on the MSc Energy Systems course visit Sandford Hydro
The Sound of Contagion performance of music generated and inspired by Artificial Intelligence
A presentation at the inaugural JADE Day
Performance Of Forager with Instruments and AI
Dr Iago Pérez Fernández presenting work at the Centre International des Conférences on the Météo-France on an early warning system for dengue in Vietnam
The OxNLP Organising Team
Enriching Exhibition Stories with the Quire Linked Art Extension. Cheney School students visit the Ashmolean Museum