School of Computing News

Congratulations to Computing students Lorenzo Chinole and Simona Paraskevopoulou, who have received £1,000 prize money at Kent Business School's Business Start-Up Journey Finals for their automated plant-watering product, Plantix. The 15-week, co-curricular Business Start-Up Journey is open to all Kent students interested in setting-up their own business and gaining entrepr...

See first-hand how research at the University of Kent can benefit your business at the Kent Technology Fair on Monday 20 and Tuesday 21 June 2022. This 2-day event aims to expose you to what researchers at Kent can do for you, and provide an excellent environment to network with other businesses, allowing you to develop what could become your next big idea. The event will showcase the latest research being carried out at the University of Kent in the fields ...

MSc Cyber Security students Keira Pascua, Urmilla Sridharan, and Daniel Thomas, took part in the NCSC Innovators Challenge, held by the National Cyber Security Centre; a part of GCHQ. The 3-day event, held between 28 February and 2 March 2022, aimed to facilitate discussion between students from NCSC-certified courses and industry to encourage innovative solutions to cyber security challenges. Dr Virginia Franqueira, Deputy...

Congratulations to Shehan Amarasekera, studying BSc (Hons) Computer Science with a Year in Industry, who won the Most Innovative Solution prize, chosen by Jay Gildea of Fivium, at this year’s Computing Poster Fair. His project, Using computational analysis of facial capture to identify key events in video games was supervised by Dr Anna Jordanous and Dr Palaniappan Ramaswamy. Shehan&...

Congratulations to School of Computing students Sejal Gupta, Nicole Green, Hari Krishnakumaran, and Dhrue Raja, who won the Best Poster prize, chosen by staff and students, at this year’s Computing Poster Fair. Their project, Recycling Made Easy, was produced by the team as part of the COMP6000 Group Project module and was supervised by Dr Daniel Soria. Recycling Made Easy aims to create an application that can inform...

Congratulations to School of Computing students Costi Flavius Lacatusu, Yacoub AlKaradsheh, Iftekharul Islam, and Stylianos Gavriel, who won the Most Innovative Use of Modern Tech prize, chosen by Katy Parsons and Mark Terry of Holiday Extras, at this year’s Computing Poster Fair. The project, Hello World! My name is EverythingIsAwesome Bot and I am here to help was produced by the t...

If the winter blues or work stress is getting to you, it might be time to try singing the blues away! Try something new and feel connection, create community and lift your spirits; join the University Community Choir, for all staff and students, meeting weekly on Canterbury campus. The choir is run by Mita Mondal, Quality Assurance & Accreditation Manager for the Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. The pandemic has been a challe...

On Tuesday 8 February 2022, three members of the Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS), Director Professor Shujun Li, Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr Rahime Belen Sağlam and PhD student Sarah Turner, delivered five one-hour-long sessions to pupils in Years 3-8 at St Edmund's School in Canterbury. This event formed part of iCSS's outreach activities and the 2022 Safer Internet Day activities of S...

‘The modules I took at Kent taught me everything I needed to know about coding and development practices in general. If it wasn't for my time at Kent, I wouldn't be where I am today’ Dan Bennett, Principal Developer at Capacitas, studied BSc Hons Computing with a Year in Industry and graduated in 2015. In this interview, we catch up with Dan about his role at Capacitas, his Year in Industry advice, and...

Dr Jason Nurse, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Cyber Security at the University of Kent, together with Lisa Sugiura, Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Cybercrime at the University of Portsmouth, have published an article for The Conversation titled ‘Domestic abusers are weaponizing everyday tech — and there's no quick fix’. Last month we provided some bac...