School of Computing News

Congratulations to Dr Anna Jordanous who has been promoted to Senior Lecturer with effect from 1 August 2018. Anna has been a lecturer in the School of Computing since 2014 and teaches on the undergraduate programmes at Medway and Master’s programmes at the Canterbury campus. Anna is an active member of the Computational Intelligence and Data Science Research Groups and her research focuses on computational creativity: getting computers to demonstrate ...

Graduating students and staff celebrated the success of prize winners at a reception for graduating students. The awards for Canterbury-based students were presented by Head of School Professor Richard Jones, Dr Sue Black OBE and Kent alumnus Chris Tasker, from the placement award sponsors Fivium. The Janet Linington Prize, awarded by the School of Computing in the area of schools liaison and other outreach work went to Oluwadamilola Quadri. Dami said t...

Students from the School of Computing were awarded prizes for outstanding achievements at their graduation ceremony at Rochester Cathedral on Tuesday 10 July. The Computer Science Project Prize, a prize awarded for the best final year Computing Project, was won by Nikhil Patnaik and Brent Gammon, and George Langroudi Brent and Nikhil worked on an ambitious project focussed on developing a data analysis application using wearable technology. The whole team wo...

Jade Donaldson, a Computing with a Year in Industry student, has been awarded a  ‘GSK Placement Student Recognition of Excellence’ certificate and has been nominated for a  ‘Science Recruitment Group Industrial Placement Employee of the Month’ award, while on placement at GSK. The nomination was made by Jade's colleagues for sharing ideas, meeting target milestones, being proactive within her team and contributing towar...

Dr Jason R C Nurse has joined the University of Kent as a Lecturer in Cyber Security in the School of Computing. Jason is a member of the Cyber Security Research Group and is based at the Canterbury campus. Jason joins Kent from the University of Oxford, where he was a Senior Researcher in Cyber Security, a part of the Department of Computer Science and Cyber Security Oxford, and a JR Fellow at Wolfson College Oxford. Dr Nurse's research interests focus...

Computer Science PhD student, Farhana Liza, has been selected as the Sciences Postgraduate Research Prize Winner for 2018. Farhana has won £500, which can be used for costs related to her research. The prize was presented formally at the Postgraduate Festival on the afternoon of Monday 18th June, followed by a dinner in Canterbury for the prize-winners. Farhana's research is in the field of Artificial Intelligence, specifically in the intersection...

Dr Sue Black OBE will receive her honorary doctor of science degree, in recognition of her 'inspirational championing of women in computing and science and campaign to preserve and save Bletchley Park' at a ceremony at Canterbury Cathedral on 16 July, when students from the School of Computing in Canterbury will be graduating. A Technology Evangelist and Digital Skills Expert, Su...

Lecturer Anna Jordanous was invited to give a keynote speech to computer scientists at investment bank Credit Suisse.  The Credit Suisse IT Expo was themed around ‘AI & Robotics’ which ties in with Anna’s area of expertise, which is computational creativity. Anna was selected alongside speakers from the machine learning and artificial intelligence fields. One of the speakers was a former student Toby Leheup who works for Credi...

Professor Ian McLoughlin from the School of Computing Data Science Research Group has written an article for The Conversation on the possible cause of ‘sonic attacks’ in Cuba and China. The article has also been published in The Independent and on the Newsweek USA website. Reports of "sonic attacks" in China, and previously in Cuba, have left many wandering whether sonic weapons could be targeting US diplomats. Victims have reporte...

The School of Computing has a new head of professional services. Amanda Ollier, the School Administration Manager (SAM), brings with her extensive management experience in different sectors. She will be responsible for the professional services team in the School of Computing, which supports the academic staff in their teaching and research and helps the students to make the most of their time at Kent. She will also support...