School of Computing News

Congratulations to James Brookhouse and Ayah Halal who got married this summer. James is a Research Associate and Ayah is a PhD student in the School of Computing at Medway. The happy couple were joined in their celebration by staff and students and alumni from the School of Computing. We wish you a very long and happy marriage James and Ayah.    

The University’s Vice Chancellor, Karen Cox, officially opened the new undergraduate common room in the School of Computing. The common room is the latest update to the Cornwallis building where facilities for computing students have been brought together, providing a central hub. The hub area comprises the School’s – reception and student office – placements office – employability and marketing office – Kent IT Consultan...

Matteo Migliavacca and his co-authors have been awarded the 10 Years Test of Time Award by the 2019 ACM International Conference on Distribute and Event-based Systems for their 2009 paper Distributed complex event processing with query rewriting. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), is the leading international professional body for computer science and the Test of Time Award recognizes papers published 10 to 12 y...

The School of Computing hosted the first UK and Ireland computing education conference (UKICER) on 5 and 6 September. The intention is for this to become the first of a series of annual conferences to create a community of computing education research within the two countries. Researchers were invited to submit research papers on the topic of computing education. Themes of interest included: Computing education pedagogy Assessing and providing feedback on c...

Dr Virginia Franqueira has joined the University of Kent as a Lecturer in the School of Computing. Virginia will be a member of the Cyber Security Research Group and a core member of the Kent Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security (KirCCS) and will be based at the Canterbury campus. Crucially, Virginia will also work for Kent’s ‘super centre‘ of research, the Institute of Advanced St...

Dr Fernando Otero has been appointed as the new Deputy Head of School (Medway), with immediate effect. Fernando has been a lecturer in the School for six years, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer this year. He gained his PhD at Kent and previously worked as a Research Associate so has long experience of the University and the School. Head of School, Professor Richard Jones said, 'Fernando impressed us greatly with his vision for the future of the Schoo...

Dr Daniel Soria has joined the University of Kent as a Lecturer in the School of Computing. Daniel will be a member of the Data Science Research Group and will be based at the Medway campus. Daniel joins Kent from the University of Westminster in London, where he was a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, member of the Health and Social Care Modelling Research Group and an associate member of the interdisciplinary Cancer Research Group. Previously, he worked...

Students at the School of Computing have had another vintage year of placement offers. Over 100 students will be going on a paid industry placement as an integral part of their degree. The students have secured placements with a diverse range of organisations from Kent-based start ups to prestigious global brands such as Rolls-Royce, Sky, Net-a-Porter, IBM and Disney. They include jobs in countries in the UK, Switzerland and Hong Kong. Many of the ...

Computing student and Bestway Foundation scholar Muhammad Rehman, MSc Cybersecurity, and fellow scholar Huma Razzaq, MSc Advanced Communications Engineering, attended the Bestway Foundation Scholars Reception on Tuesday 23 July to meet fellow Pakistan students and share their experiences of study in the UK. Hosted by Sir Anwar Pervez, Bestway Foundation UK founder, and his son Zameer Choudrey CBE, BA (Hons), the Reception was attended by other high-profile b...

A one day event at the Canterbury campus on Thursday 5 September will enable businesses and organisations with cyber security problems and challenges to meet with cyber security experts and researchers. The event will provide them with the opportunity to discuss the increasing number of cyber threats, what can be done to combat them, and how to make businesses and organisations more cyber aware and resilient. Hosted by the University's Interdi...