Category Archives: data science

Privacy and the AI-enabled smartphone spy

Posted on November 28, 2018 by cb244

Professor Ian McLoughlin from the School of Computing Data Science Research Group has written an article for The Conversation on what AI-enabled smartphones can learn from the sound of your speech. The vast majority of people in developed countries now … Continue reading →

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PhD student wins 2nd prize at London Hopper Colloquium

Posted on October 30, 2018 by cb244

PhD student, Joanna Sharrad, recently won 2nd place in the Research Spotlight Competition at the British Computing Society’s London Hopper Colloquium, and was presented with a certificate and £100. The Research Spotlight competition focuses on women research masters students and … Continue reading →

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Visit from Vietnamese bank BCS/BIDV

Posted on September 21, 2018 by cb244

The School of Computing was honoured to receive the CEO, Head of Research and six other visitors from BCS/BIDV bank (Vietnam) on Friday 14 September 2018, and also the CEO of WealthObjects Ltd to discuss potential collaborations in the areas … Continue reading →

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Seeing red – new research aims to reduce impacts

Posted on August 28, 2018 by opg

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 … Continue reading →

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New Lecturer joins Data Science Group

Posted on August 6, 2018 by cb244

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 … Continue reading →

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Promotion for Dr Anna Jordanous

Posted on July 31, 2018 by opg

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 … Continue reading →

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Kent academic gives keynote speech at City Event

Posted on June 15, 2018 by opg

Lecturer Anna Jordanous was invited to give a keynote speech to computer scientists at investment bank Credit Suisse.  The Credit Suisse IT Expo was themed around ‘AI & Robotics’ which ties in with Anna’s area of expertise, which is computational creativity. … Continue reading →

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Sonic attacks in China and Cuba: how sound can be a weapon

Posted on June 7, 2018 by cb244

Professor Ian McLoughlin from the School of Computing Data Science Research Group has written an article for The Conversation on the possible cause of ‘sonic attacks’ in Cuba and China. The article has also been published in The Independent and on … Continue reading →

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New lecturer joins School of Computing

Posted on May 30, 2018 by cb244

Dr Tomas Petricek has joined the University of Kent as a lecturer in the School of Computing. Tomas is a member of the Programming Languages and Systems Research group and is based at the Canterbury campus. Tomas studied for his … Continue reading →

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Best Paper Award for Professor Frank Wang

Posted on May 29, 2018 by opg

Congratulations to Professor Frank Wang whose paper “Memory deduplication: an effective approach to improve the memory system” has just received the Best Paper Award of all papers published in the Journal of Information Science and Engineering in 2017. The Journal of Information Science … Continue reading →

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