School of Computing News

A children's book aimed at explaining what sorts of careers are available to them in the future includes an interview with Dr Jason Nurse from the School of Computing. Dr Nurse is featured in the book called Fantastic jobs and how to get them, which has a particular focus on jobs in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Dr Nurse is included as a 'social media scientist' w...

Kent Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security (KirCCS) at the University of Kent, representing the University of Kent as a UK government recognised ACE-CSR (Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research), will host its first Public Engagement Event in Cyber Security at the Canterbury campus on Wednesday 5th December 2018 from 1-6pm. The event will be opened by Prof Karen Cox, the Vice-Chancellor and President of the University, at 2.30p...

Two students from the School of Computing at Medway have won an award while on placement at Medway Council. Direna Rugnato and Devesh Patel, Computing with a Year in Industry BSc students, were part of a team who won the Innovation and Bright Idea award for their work on the Social Care Mobile Working project. The project involved introducing the latest technologies to improve paper-based and manual processes within the Chi...

Professor Sally Fincher was chosen as one of the winners of the biennial Suffrage Science Awards for Mathematics and Computing. The awards took place on Monday 8 October 2018, with 11 scientists from across the UK honoured at the event, that took place at the British Library. The Suffrage Science awards are designed to help promote the leading roles held by women in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics in the UK to help improve the ...

On Friday 28th September, Minister Counsellor Yongli Wang from the Embassy of the People's Republic of China visited the University of Kent. During a meeting concentrating on research he was greeted by Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research & Innovation Professor Philippe De Wilde, with assistance from Dr Caroline Li of the School of Computing. Professor Shujun Li was invited to give a presentation about the Kent Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cy...

Congratulations to Dr Radu Grigore who has been promoted to Senior Lecturer with effect from 1 October 2018. Radu has been a lecturer in the School of Computing since 2016 and teaches on the undergraduate and Master's programmes at the Canterbury campus. Radu is an active member of the Programming Languages and Systems Research Group and his  research focuses on developing refinement techniques for program analyses and working on run-time veri...

Could computer science at Kent be right for you? Book on one of our Open Days to find out for yourself. Our Open Days are on: Saturday 6 October – Canterbury Saturday 13 October – Medway Saturday 20 October – Canterbury Saturday 24 October -Canterbury Postgraduate Open Event Learn more about our undergraduate programmes, have a chat with current students and attend sample lectures and demonstrations to see why our academic...

As part of the University of Kent Think Kent series – a collection of YouTube videos celebrating research with international impact at the University – Professor Ian McLoughlin describes how advances in speech technology are being adapted to assist patients who experience speech impairment. In this work in the School of Computing Medway, the latest deep learning techniques are being combined with speech proces...

For the 6th year in a row, over 100 students from the School of Computing have secured  an industrial placement for 2018/19. The School’s impressive record in helping to secure placements for its students is due to the support that undergraduate and Master’s students receive from the dedicated placement team. Industrial placement officers, Sian Robson and Katie Van Sanden, exclusively help computing students to get the right job. They h...

The School of Computing was honoured to receive the CEO, Head of Research and six other visitors from BCS/BIDV bank (Vietnam) on Friday 14 September 2018, and also the CEO of WealthObjects Ltd to discuss potential collaborations in the areas of financial forecasting and financial securities. The School of Computing was represented by Dr Michael Kampouridis, Professor Ian McLoughlin, and PhD student Mr Lam Pham. During the meeting, Dr Kampouridis presented th...