School of Computing News

On Wednesday 17 February 2021, Kent Law School and Kent Cyber Security Educational Centre (KeCSEC), hosted a virtual workshop entitled ‘Children's Social Media Sites: Can they meet the ICO Age Appropriate Design Code of Practice?’ Over the past year children, youths and teens have been living a large portion of their lives online to learn and to socialise, especially using social media sites to meet old fri...

The School of Computing at the University of Kent is pleased to offer two new MSc Computer Science conversion courses in Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security, designed for graduates from any discipline. The MSc Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) course focuses on how computer science and artificial intelligence can solve complex problems in the world. This is a rapidly evolving field for the transformation of our society from self-driving cars,...

On Monday 8 February, Kent cyber security researchers (Professor Shujun Li, Dr Virginia Franqueira and PhD student Sarah Turner) gave a talk at St Edmund's School in Canterbury, to share their experience on cyber security research and education. This talk was one of a series of events initiated by the Kent Cyber Security Educational Centre (KeCSEC), part of the newly established Institute of Advanced Studies in Cyber Security and Conflict (SoCyETAL) at ...

We are pleased to announce the launch of our new undergraduate courses, BSc Data Science and BSc Data Science with a Year in Industry, jointly delivered by the University of Kent’s School of Computing and School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science. Modern societies produce huge amounts of data, which is only useful if we can analyse it and gain practical insights. Data science combines powerful computing technology, sophisticated statistic...

The School of Computing wishes to appoint a qualified and highly motivated researcher to work as a Research Associate. You will work on a project titled "CaMELot: Catching and Mitigating Event-Loop Concurrency Issues", which is funded by an EPSRC UK grant and is led by Dr Stefan Marr. Your role will be to develop lightweight techniques for detecting a wide range of concurrency is...

Professor of Cyber Security, Shujun Li, from the School of Computing and the Kent Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security (KirCCS) has commented on the challenges of reputation systems to fully manage the authenticity of their users due to freedom of speech and provides advice for businesses on communicating productively with users who have left negative reviews. Customer reviews are at the c...

Dr Budi Arief, Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing and member of the Kent Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security (KirCSC), is collaborating with PhD student Tom Seed and Emeritus Professor Andy King, on a new project titled "Symbolic Computation for Mainstream Verification". The project is funded by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), via the Research Institute in Verified Trustwort...

The School of Computing is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Computing who can help us to deliver an excellent standard of education across a range of undergraduate programmes in computer science. The deadline for applications is Sunday 14 March 2021. The successful candidate will prepare and deliver lectures, practical classes, small-group teaching, project supervision and student support, and will have responsibility for setting and marking assessments and ...

BSc Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) student Simona Paraskevopoulou, currently undertaking her Industry Placement with Jefferies, will represent the company at a networking session for STEM Women‘s UK Graduate Careers event this week. Since starting her studies at Kent, Simona has undertaken a variety at internships, starting with a week-long Technology Spring Internship at Morgan Stanley during her first ye...

Congratulations to Keenan Jones, currently undertaking a PhD in Computer Science at the School of Computing, who has been highly commended for his poster on ‘Hacktivism and Social Media: Analysing the Anonymous Collective on Twitter‘ for the SPRITE+ Showcase: Research Snapshot poster competition. Keenan’s research involves the application of computational methods to analyse the behaviours of cybercriminals...