School of Computing News

Congratulations to Alexia Zoumpoulaki, who has recently passed her PhD viva, with minor corrections. Alexia's PhD thesis was titled ‘Detecting Perceptual Breakthrough in RSVP with Applications in Deception Detection: Methodological, Behavioural and Electrophysiological Explorations' and was supervised by Howard Bowman. Alexia explained; 'My research explores perceptual breakthrough in rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP), for dec...

Students from KITC (Kent IT Consultancy) presented examples of their work at an event entitled ‘Becoming a Consultant – the Next Generation’ at the headquarters of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT. Student consultants at the KITC are ‘the graduates of tomorrow helping the businesses of today’, and work on projects for paying clients, who are usually local small and medium enterprises. Their work forms as assessed part of...

Dr Palaniappan Ramaswamy has delivered two courses on biomedical signals to colleagues in two Indian universities as part of an initiative to elevate India’s scientific and technological capacity to global excellence. Palani, who is a Reader based at the School of Computing in Medway, was invited to deliver two one week courses for university staff, medical professors and postgraduate students. He taught on the analysis of biom...

Congratulations to Konstantin Kapinchev, who has recently passed his PhD viva, with minor corrections. His PhD thesis was titled 'Scalable Parallel Optimization of Digital Signal Processing in the Fourier Domain’. Konstantin’s thesis was supervised by Fred Barnes and examined by Dr Mark Batty with Professor Brian Vinter from the University of Copenhagen as the external examiner. Konstantin said: ‘As well as my ...

Congratulations to Davin McCall, research student in the School of Computing, who has recently passed his PhD viva, with minor corrections. His PhD thesis was entitled 'Novice Programmer Errors – Analysis and Diagnostics‘. The thesis detailed a systematic and thorough approach both to analysing which errors that are most problematic for students, and to automated diagnosis of errors. Abstract All programmers make errors when writing program code, and for novices the difficu...

Many students are keen to learn the tech skills that will make them stand out to a graduate employer, or simply want to learn more about computing for their own interests. The School of Computing offers a ‘Year in Computing‘ for all Kent undergraduate students*. This extra year can be taken after stage 2 or the final year of a students’ current degree programme. Students interested in finding out more can come to a kickstart lunch...

Professor Richard Jones has been appointed as Head of School, a three year post starting on 1 January 2017. Richard is Professor of Computer Systems and has worked at the School of Computing in University of Kent since 1985. He is well known for his research and books on dynamic memory management (‘garbage collection’). The role of Head of School is a high-profile one within the University and provides academic and professiona...

‘Functional Programming in Erlang‘, the first MOOC (massive open online course) dedicated to Erlang, is now open for enrolment. This is the first MOOC from the the University of Kent in partnership with FutureLearn, the social learning platform with 5 million learners. The Erlang MOOC will begin on 20th February 2017 and learners can enroll now. Functional programming has becom...

The School is currently looking to hire two Lecturers in Computing. We are particularly interested in people with an interest in Security, or Programming Languages but are happy to consider excellent candidates in other areas that would complement or enhance the School's existing research strengths. These two Lecturers in Computing (the equivalent of tenure track, assistant professors), will be based at our Canterbury campus. Applica...

Dr Maria Christakis has joined the University of Kent as a lecturer in the School of Computing. Maria is a member of the Programming Languages and Systems Research Group and will be based at the Canterbury campus. Maria has a PhD from ETH Zurich with a thesis on ‘Narrowing the Gap between Verification and Systematic Testing’. She has more recently worked as a Post-doctoral researcher for Microsoft R...