School of Computing News

Final year students from the School of Computing celebrated their final year projects at the School of Computing Virtual Poster Fair on Friday 19 March 2021, with several student groups awarded prizes sponsored by local companies and partners. The poster fair and prizegiving ceremony was attended by over 200 people throughout the day, and prizes were awarded based on the students’ posters and abstracts. We are pleased...

A consortium of researchers including Dr Jason Nurse from the University's Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) and School of Computing, have found that there has been a surge in cyber-security crime experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a particular correlation between governmental policy announcements and cyber-crime campaigns. Their study, published in the journal Com...

A multidisciplinary research team from the University's Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) is carrying out an investigation to examine the role of technology in intimate partner domestic abuse. The research, funded by the Home Office Domestic Abuse Perpetrators fund, will explore the prevalence of Technology Facilitated Domestic Abuse (TFDA) in the UK and the particular types of technologies use...

School of Computing alumna Yasamin Karimi has been selected by The Financial Technology Report as one of The Top 25 Women Leaders In Financial Technology Of Europe For 2021. Over the past year, Europe has seen impressive growth within the financial technology sector and the 2021 awardees have helped lead their organizations amidst rapid digitalization of the financial industry, an increasi...

Three School of Computing students, Miguel Cardona Polo (BSc Computer Science with a Year in Industry) and Emmanuel Ojo-Williams (BSc Computer Science) and Geraldine Nyathi (MSc Computer Science), have been selected as finalists for this year’s Business Start-Up Journey Pitching Competition, which will be held on Wednesday 31 March at 2pm via Zoom. The finalists chosen for this year's Business Start-Up Journey Pi...

Dr Jason Nurse of the School of Computing and Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) is part of a collaborative research project that will help guide future police investigations into domestic abuse. The project, funded by the Home Office Domestic Abuse Perpetrators fund, will explore how domestic abusers are using computers and other digital technology to monitor, threaten and humiliate their victims...

Societies across Kent are collaborating on The Other Side of STEM project to celebrate British Science Week. The collaboration includes Women in STEM, Kent Maths, Bio Soc, Chem Soc, Kent Marrow, Kent Space Soc and Kent Marketing Soc, and aims to showcase the diversity of people in STEM. A paper recently published in the Journal of Vascular Surgery (now retracted), examined the prevalence of ‘unprofessional’ social media content among young vascular surgeons. It detailed how behavi...

For British Science Week (5-14 March 2021), the Divisions of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Science (CEMS) and Natural Sciences (NATS) will hold a series of online public lectures from experts in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The lectures, which are free and open for all, will cover topics from combatting fake news, to sustainable electronics and using gut bacteria to develop new health solutions. Delivered by K...

Congratulations to Dr Jason R.C. Nurse, Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing, who has won an award at this year's Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2021) for his poster on 'A Framework for Effective Corporate Communication after Cyber Security Incidents'. NDSS is a top security venue that fosters information exchange among researchers and practitioners of computer, network and distributed system security. The resear...