School of Computing News

Masters student Sybil Mayard, from the School of Computing, has won this year’s University of Kent Big Ideas Competition with her business idea “Codable”. Each year the University selects a student, or team of students, to compete in the Global Entrepreneur Challenge, which takes place at Virginia Tech University in the US. The University of Kent represents the UK in this prestigious competition which sees students from 15 universities from...

The School of Computing is delighted to have appointed two new lecturers to join the team. Dr Sahar Al-Sudani, based at Medway and Dr Jacqui Chetty, based in Canterbury, will be active members of the Student Success Project, contributing to making research-informed decisions on identifying interventions and activities to narrow the attainment gap within the School. Sahar Al Sudani is a member of the Computing Education research group and the Data Science gro...

Students from the School of Computing can apply for free places on immersive summer schools in France. The three-week courses, which are taught in English, each explore a different theme in depth. The topics available this year are: Artificial intelligence and robotics Augmented reality Blockchain Internet of Things Launch your own IT start-up Smart cities Sport and technology Video games Last year two School of Computing students had a productive sum...

Three students from the School of Computing have gone through to the final of the Business Start-up Journey (BSUJ) and will pitch their ideas at the Business Start-Up Journey showcase on Wednesday 4 April 2018. The BSUJ is an inspirational programme which brings student business start-up ideas to life. Students attend talks and workshops on all aspects of business including financial, legal and marketing, as well as mentoring sessions, to help take their bus...

Wellbeing Festivals will take place at both Canterbury and Medway campuses. The events are organised by Student Support and Wellbeing who encourage students and staff to ‘enrich your life and try something new for free!’ Details of the events will be published on @unikentssw on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. In addition, staff and students from the School of Computing at Canterbury have the opportunity to meet Monty, a canine companion. Medway – Tuesday 20 March 2018 ...

Students from the School of Computing at the University of Kent have won the annual Deloitte Cyber 'Capture the Flag' competition. The competition tested students' penetration testing, forensics, malware and intrusion analysis skills in a fun and competitive environment. The Kent team, comprised of Matthew Boakes, Calvin Brierley, Catalin Irimie and Jamie Pont, qualified in an initial round. Only the eight highest scoring university teams were...

In response to the government unveiling an AI tool that can be used to block terrorist content before it uploaded to the web Professor of Computing Ian McLoughlin has said that the success of the technology will only improve over time as it continues to learn. 'While the company behind this algorithm is extremely sensitive to revealing any details, we know that it's based on machine learning technology. From the g...

Katie Van Sanden, Placement Officer in the School of Computing, has been announced as a winner in the Vice-Chancellor’s photographic competition. Staff, students and alumni were invited to submit photographs that captured the essence of the beautiful cities in the UK and Europe where the University of Kent has campuses and centres. Katie’s photograph ‘Artist at work amongst the pillars of Rome’ was one of 130 entries and was announced...

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...