School of Computing News

School of Computing alumnus Krishnan Patel has been interviewed by the Renault Formula 1 Team about his experiences on their graduate programme. Krishnan studied BSc Computer Science with a Year in Industry at Kent and now works as a Software Developer (Aerodynamics) for the Renault Formula 1 Team. In the interview, Krishnan describes his role within the company, explaining that his team creates and develops software used i...

A team of Kent students has recently been selected for the finals of the 4th Annual UK Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge. This is the first time that the University and Kent's new Institute for Advanced Studies in Cyber Security and Conflict (SoCyETAL) will be represented at the competition. The team of 4, coached by Dr Gareth Mott, is comprised of Undergraduate and Postgraduate students from the School of Computing, Kent ...

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...