Unconventional Communications and Computing Laboratory

Bringing the bio in biocybernetics, we are a team driven by interdisciplinary research topics and increasingly industry interest (e.g. Neuralink, Meta and Microsoft) in novel technology that unites biological engineering and carbon neutral communication and computing platforms. The Essex’s Unconventional Communications and Computing Laboratory (UC2 Lab) bring together researchers developing new technology that pushes communications and computing to environmentally friendly status, i.e batteryless and beyond-silicon. We explore both in-silico and in-vitro methods for deciphering how biological organisms can be controlled to provide new opportunities for either new range of implantable devices, as well as for stem-cell or electroceuticals, for precise medicine. AI and computational approaches are among the cornerstone of our solutions, as well as the exciting new area of molecular (bio)communications.

Our interdisciplinary team contain academics from computer science, electronic engineering, bioinformatics and biologists with a proven international profile with world-wide research impact. UC2 also welcomes UG and PGT students interested in developing novel and exciting unconventional technology.

Related courses

• Undergraduate courses in computer science and electronic engineering
• MSc Computer Networks and Security
• MSc Artificial Intelligence
• MSc Computer Engineering
• MSc Advanced Computer Science
• MSc Health Genomics
• Postgraduate research courses in computer science or electronic engineering