School of Computing News

BSc Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) student Simona Paraskevopoulou, currently undertaking her Industry Placement with Jefferies, will represent the company at a networking session for STEM Women‘s UK Graduate Careers event this week. Since starting her studies at Kent, Simona has undertaken a variety at internships, starting with a week-long Technology Spring Internship at Morgan Stanley during her first ye...

Congratulations to Keenan Jones, currently undertaking a PhD in Computer Science at the School of Computing, who has been highly commended for his poster on ‘Hacktivism and Social Media: Analysing the Anonymous Collective on Twitter‘ for the SPRITE+ Showcase: Research Snapshot poster competition. Keenan’s research involves the application of computational methods to analyse the behaviours of cybercriminals...

Professor Simon Thompson, Emeritus Professor of Logic and Computation, will deliver a keynote with Franceso Cesarini (CTO and founder of Erlang Solutions) on Industry versus academia? Learning and teaching programming at Lambda Days 2021 on Tuesday 16 February 2021. Lambda Days 2021 is part of the 22nd Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) and Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPiE). In their tal...

For Safer Internet Day (9 February 2021), Kent academics provide some top tips for staying safe online. The annual event, which started in 2004 as part of the EU SafeBorders project, is now celebrated across the globe and aims to bring people together to make the internet a safer and better place for all, and especially for children and young people. This year's theme is "Together for a better internet" and our experts have provided their tips...

Physoc, the Physics Society at the University of Kent, are hosting an interdisciplinary Quantum Physics Panel on Tuesday 9 February 2021 at 6pm, featuring Carlos Perez Delgado, Lecturer at the School of Computing. The panel, which will explore quantum mechanics from the point of view of Physics, Philosophy, Quantum Computing, and Mathematics, will include chairs Dr Sam Carr, and Dr Gunnar Möller (Physical Sciences) and...

The School of Computing is seeking to appoint a lecturer who can help us to deliver an excellent standard of education across a range of undergraduate programmes in computer science. The successful candidate will prepare and deliver lectures, practical classes, small-group teaching, project supervision and student support, and will have responsibility for setting and marking assessments and exams. This post in permanent and full time. We particularly welcome applications from female candidate...

The division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences (CEMS) is pleased to announce the publication of a new book titled Security of Ubiquitous Computing Systems, recently published by Springer and free for all to access and download. The book was co-edited by Professor Julio Hernandez-Castro, a member of Kent Interdisciplinary Research Centre ...

Kent has established the Institute of Advanced Studies in Cyber Security and Conflict (SoCyETAL), a University-wide hub promoting interdisciplinary research and educational activities in cyber security and conflict. SoCyETAL will further extend cyber security research of the Kent Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security (KirCCS), especially within its Socio-Technical Security and Privacy research theme, into wider areas such as...

Dr Harmonie Toros, Reader in International International Conflict Analysis at Kent's School of Politics and International Relations has been awarded a Research Fellowship for National Resilience with the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). Dr Toros' research within the Fellowship will focus on the Gendered Narrative Analysis on violent extremism. Leading a team of national se...

Professor Shujun Li and former Computing Research Associate Dr Tasmina Islam, both from the School of Computing and the Kent Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security (KirCCS), have won a Best Paper Award at HICSS 2021 (54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences), for their joint work with five other researchers from the University College London (UCL), TRL Ltd and the University of Surrey. As part of...