School of Computing News

Shutterstock Jason Nurse, University of Kent Cybercriminals have just been given yet another route to get malicious software (malware) onto your personal mobile devices. The hugely popular video game Fortnite has become one of the first major apps to bypass official app stores and encourage users to download its software directly. In doing so, it's also bypassing the security protections of the app stores and chipping away at a system that has worked r...

Over the past year, the School of Computing has continued to have a global reach in its research, student recruitment and engagement activities, showcasing the truly international impact of the School. Raising our profile through research The government-run Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise ranked 100% of the School’s research impact ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ and the latest research in the Sc...

The aim of most research is to achieve impact, but a new research project in the School of Computing aims for the opposite – to reduce impacts. Palaniappan Ramaswamy, Ian McLoughlin and Howard Bowman have been given an award of £195k from the Road Safety Trust for "Using Cognitive Responses to Assess and Improve Vehicle Brake Light Designs". The grant's aim is to assess current LED brake lights and to improve th...

The University of Kent has achieved accreditation from the government as an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR).                                 The announcement, made by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, comes in recognitio...

Computer Science with a Year in Industry Alumna, Christine Berry (formerly Moore) has been listed in The Drum's 50 under 30 Women in Digital 2018. The Drum's 50 under 30 women in Digital celebrates the outstanding level of female talent in the digital media and marketing industry, based on nominations from readers of The Drum and curated with the help of a panel of industry experts. Christine graduated from Kent i...

Dr Delaram Jarchi has joined the University of Kent as a lecturer in computing, in the School of Computing. She is a member of the Data Science group and is based at the Medway campus. Delaram joins Kent from the University of Oxford where she was a senior researcher at the computational health informatics lab and a research member of the Wolfson College Oxford. Dr Jarchi's research interests are body sensor network, biomedical signal processing and mac...

The School of Computing’s Administration Manager, Angela Doe, has retired from the School after 13 years in post. Colleagues from around the University gathered to say their goodbyes and to thank Angela for her professional and personal support. Head of School, Professor Richard Jones thanked Angela for her professionalism and expertise in finance in particular as well as being ‘a thoroughly lovely person’. Angela’s post-retirement pl...

The School of Computing welcomes new lecturer Dr Stephen Kell. Stephen joins the School from the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge. He has also worked at Oracle Labs, the University of Lugano, and the University of Oxford. Stephen does practical research on programming systems will be joining the  Programming Languages and Systems (PLAS) research group. His interests span most  aspects of program...

Congratulations to Dr Anna Jordanous who has been promoted to Senior Lecturer with effect from 1 August 2018. Anna has been a lecturer in the School of Computing since 2014 and teaches on the undergraduate programmes at Medway and Master’s programmes at the Canterbury campus. Anna is an active member of the Computational Intelligence and Data Science Research Groups and her research focuses on computational creativity: getting computers to demonstrate ...

Graduating students and staff celebrated the success of prize winners at a reception for graduating students. The awards for Canterbury-based students were presented by Head of School Professor Richard Jones, Dr Sue Black OBE and Kent alumnus Chris Tasker, from the placement award sponsors Fivium. The Janet Linington Prize, awarded by the School of Computing in the area of schools liaison and other outreach work went to Oluwadamilola Quadri. Dami said t...