School of Computing News

Dr Jason Nurse, Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) from the School of Computing and Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) has contributed to a new government-commissioned Ipsos MORI report, which is being used to influence government policy on regulating consumer smart product cyber security. The Ipsos MORI report, titled 'Consumer Attitudes Towards IoT security' reve...

Professor Shujun Li, Director of the Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) and Professor of Cyber Security at School of Computing, has co-authored an article entitled 'CogTool+: Modeling human performance at large scale', which has recently  been published in the top tier computer science journal  ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. The journal is considered the No 1 journal in the sub-area of computer-human interacti...

The Kentish Cyber Team: Dr Gareth Mott, Hala Zein, Ben Treacy, Nandita Pattnaik, and Keenan Jones Kentish Cyber, a team of Kent students, recently took part in the 4th Annual UK Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge. The Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge is an annual cyber policy and strategy competition open to university students from across the globe. The competition focuses on the interdisciplinary nature of the cyber challenges an...

Dr Stefan Marr, Lecturer at the School of Computing, has received a Royal Society Industry Fellowship to collaborate with Shopify, a leading global commerce company that provides tools to retail business of any size. From 2021 to 2024, he will work together with Dr Chris Seaton of Shopify on techniques to improve the performance of large-scale applications with millions of lines of code. As part of project FastStart: F...

Professor Shujun Li from the School of Computing and Director of the Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) will work with researchers at Cranfield University to look into the cyber security risks posed by a digitally enabled, low-carbon mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) ecosystem. The project, titled "Mobility as a service: MAnaging Cybersecurity Risks across Consumers, Organisations and Sectors (MACRO)", is f...

Professor David Chadwick, Managing Director and CEO of Verifiable Credentials, and Professor of Information Systems Security at the School of Computing, has been interviewed by CNBC on his company's trialling of COVID-19 vaccination passports. Verifiable Credentials is a cyber security company which aims to provide everyone with free to use verifiable credentials apps. The company has been testing COVID-19 certificate ...

David Sharp, an undergraduate computer science student at Kent, has been highly commended in ASET (The Work Based and Placement Learning Association)'s 2020 Student Competition. ASET's yearly competition is open to students returning to their institutions having completed a placement, internship, or work experience during the previous academic year, and has been running for more than 35 years. David submitted a re...

Dr Sanjay Bhattacherjee from the School of Computing and Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS) has secured funding from Innovate UK as part of their Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator Programme (CyberASAP). CyberASAP is a competition for cyber security researchers to realise the commercialisation potential of their innovations. The funding received is for a project entitled 'ViBS: Voting in Blockchain Sytems'. The project aims to ...

Following yesterday’s announcement that a new £50 note featuring Alan Turing will go into circulation this summer, Dr Fernando Otero, Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing was interviewed on BBC Radio Kent on the lasting impact of Turing’s work, and why it’s important to celebrate and remember him today. In the interview, Fernando explains that although Turing is best known for his contribution ...