Our research impact

Our researchers work on innovative projects with broad and signficant national and global impact for society and the economy.

Human organs - kidneys

Increasing living kidney transplantation in the UK

Bespoke algorithms developed at UofG have increased the number of kidney transplants arranged through the UK Living Kidney Sharing Scheme (UKLKSS), freeing many more kidney patients and their families from the burden of long-term dialysis and savings the NHS millions of pounds.

High capacity data storage servers

Query efficiency prediction

UofG researchers developed a technique called query efficiency prediction, which estimates how long an unseen query will take to be answered. The increased capacity allows any search engine to adjust its configuration appropriately to reduce response times.

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International technical standards in WebRTC

Our researchers developed circuit breakers and congestion control feedback to ensure WebRTC (Web Real-time Communication) is safe to deploy and has good performance.

SD Erlang

Increased scalability of Erlang

Erlang is an open-source specialist programming language governing >90% of internet traffic and ~50% of landline phone calls globally. Trinder at UofG identified fundamental issues which constrained Erlang’s performance on multiple cores (processors) and hosts (machines), i.e. its scalability.