School of Computing News

The School of Computing wishes to appoint a qualified and highly motivated researcher to work as a Research Associate on a project funded by the Quantum Communications Hub v2. You will work with Professor Julio Hernandez-Castro and Dr. Carlos Perez-Delgado on the analysis and testing of random number generators, including Quantum Random Number Generators. The main objective of such a research would be to improve on exi...

Dr Virginia Franqueira, Lecturer in Cyber Security and Sarah Turner, Research Student, both of the School of Computing, presented two live sessions as part of Cyber First's EmPower Cyber Week. CyberFirst was set up by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to develop the UK's next generation of cyber professionals. EmPower Cyber Week took place over five days and involved a series of recorded and live events, s...

Congratulations to all our students who have graduated this year. Achieving your degree is a great accomplishment, particularly in these challenging times, and all at the School of Computing commend you for your hard work. Due to the impact of coronavirus, all ceremonies this year were cancelled and our students graduated in absentia. Therefore, our staff have recorded their congratulations and prepared a video celebration, which includes a full list of this...

A new policy paper co-authored by Dr Jason Nurse of the School of Computing and Kent Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security (KirCCS) has outlined the opportunities of and challenges in using cyber insurance to incentivise cyber security practices. Dr Nurse collaborated with James Sullivan, Head of Cyber Research at The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), to produce the Emerging...

A group of researchers, including Dr Chee Siang (Jim) Ang, Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing, Dr Gianluca Marcelli (School of Engineering and Digital Arts), and Professor Martin Michaelis and Dr Mark Wass (School of Biosciences), have developed a computer algorithm to identify differences in cancer cell lines based on microscopic images, preventing the misclassification of cells. The research, published in an artic...

The School of Computing wishes to appoint a qualified and highly motivated researcher to work as a Research Associate on a project titled "CaMELot: Catching and Mitigating Event-Loop Concurrency Issues". The project is funded by an EPSRC UK grant and is led by Dr Stefan Marr, Lecturer at the School of Computing. Your role will be to develop lightweight run-time detection techniques for concurrency issues, develop heuristics to minimize run-time ove...

The School of Computing is delighted to offer a new PhD studentship entitled: ‘Catching and Mitigating Event-Loop Concurrency Issues‘. Modern server applications utilize concurrency in many ways. Actors and event loops are popular as programming paradigms since they avoid low-level concurrency issues. Unfortunately, even when using actors or event loops, server applications still show other types of concurrency ...

The School of Computing is delighted to offer a new PhD studentship entitled ‘Reliable by construction distributed systems: a toolchain for development and testing‘. We are inviting applications for a PhD scholarship in relation to the EPSRC UK project ‘Session Types for Reliable Distributed Systems‘ (STARDUST). The key idea of STARDUST is to combine the communicati...

Dr Jason Nurse, Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security at the School of Computing and Public Engagement Lead of Kent Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security (KirCCS), has been interviewed by BBC Radio 4 about the recent cyber attack on Manchester United Football Club. It was reported that on Friday 20 November the club was hit by a sophisticated cyber attack, resulting in staff being locked out of emails and security...

On Wednesday 18 November 2020, three researchers from Kent Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security (KirCCS) joined other UK researchers in signing an open letter to the UK Charity Sector. Dr Virginia Franqueira, Professor Shujun Li and Professor David Chadwick, signed the open letter which was written in response to a recent report published by ProPrivacy on the widespread use ...