School of Computing News

The School of Computing has added to its talented staff with the appointment of Shoaib Jameel, a Lecturer based at the Medway Campus. As well as teaching on the Computing programmes, Shoaib will be an active member of the Data Science Group, continuing his research in probabilistic topic models, Bayesian nonparametric statistics, vector space embeddings, natural language processing, optimization, and inf...

Dr Özgür Kafalı has joined the University of Kent as a lecturer in the School of Computing. Özgür is a member of the Cyber Security Research Group and is based at the Canterbury campus. Özgür Kafalı received his undergraduate, MS, and PhD degrees from Boğaziçi University, one of the top universities in Turkey. During his MS and PhD, he developed Artificial Intelligence agents for e-commerce as we...

The 'Year in Computing’ is a self-contained year of study offered by the School of Computing to students from any other School in the University*. Applications for September 2018 are now open and need to be received by 16 February.  Apply now Students who successfully complete the year graduate with their original degree title plus 'with a Year in Computing'. The Year in Computing will especially be of interest to you if; ...

Computing with a Year in Industry Alumna, Charlotte Hutchinson, has been named one of the top 50 women in technology in We Are Tech Women‘s  TechWomen50 awards 2017, which celebrates emerging talent. Over 500 women were nominated for the awards which were judged by a panel of 20 independent judges. Over 15,000 public votes were then received for the 100 shortlisted nominees. Charlotte graduated from Kent in 2015 and went to work at IBM following c...

Two Master’s students from the School of Computing have been awarded prizes for outstanding achievements on their degrees. Philip Adey, MSc Advanced Computer Science, won the prize for Outstanding Performance on the Programme with an overall mark of 87.7%. Lewis Mckeown, MSc Computer Science with an Industrial Placement, won the prize for Outstanding Performance in the Project, with a score of 95%. Lewis’ project entitled 'Software for a Nar...

Neelan Thuraisingham, a second year student at the School of Computing has won a gold medal at the WorldSkills UK competition. Neelan, who studies Computer Science (Networks) with a Year in Industry, was selected for the Network Infrastructure Technician national final after winning a national qualifier in Surrey. Neelan said; ‘When they were announcing the prizes I was hoping for bronze and then silver and then when those prizes went to other peo...

Shutterstock Ian McLoughlin, University of Kent In the Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy, Douglas Adams's seminal 1978 BBC broadcast (then book, feature film and now cultural icon), one of the many technology predictions was the Babel Fish. This tiny yellow life-form, inserted into the human ear and fed by brain energy, was able to translate to and from any language. Web giant Google have now seemingly developed their own version of the Babel Fish, ...

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...

Shujun Li has joined the University of Kent as a Professor of Cyber Security in the School of Computing. Shujun will head up the School's Security Research Group and the university-wide Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security. Shujun has a prolific publishing record with over 100 scientific papers published since 2000, including two Best Paper Awards. His research interests are mainly on cyber security, human factors, multimedia co...