{"id":2165,"date":"2019-09-04T12:18:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T11:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2019-09-04T12:18:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T11:18:15","slug":"fernando-otero-appointed-as-deputy-head-of-school-medway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2019\/09\/04\/fernando-otero-appointed-as-deputy-head-of-school-medway\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernando Otero appointed as Deputy Head of School (Medway)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.kent.ac.uk\/people\/staff\/febo\/\">Fernando Otero<\/a> has been appointed as the new Deputy Head of School (Medway), with immediate effect. Fernando has been a lecturer in the School for six years, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer this year. He gained his PhD at Kent and previously worked as a Research Associate so has long experience of the University and the School.<\/p>\n<p>Head of School, Professor Richard Jones said, \u2018Fernando impressed us greatly with his vision for the future of the School of Computing in Medway. He will join the School&#8217;s Core Management Team and I very much look forward\u00a0 to working closely with him.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Fernando is a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.kent.ac.uk\/research\/groups\/datascience\/index.html\">Data Science<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.kent.ac.uk\/research\/groups\/compint\/\">Computational Intelligence<\/a> Groups and his research interests include data mining and knowledge discovery, bio-inspired algorithms, the application of data mining algorithms in bioinformatics and financial forecasting, and big data.<\/p>\n<p>Fernando has also recently secured funding for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.kent.ac.uk\/news.html?view=1970\">Knowledge Transfer Partnership<\/a> with London-based fintech start-up Youtility to enhance user experience using machine learning models. He also leads Computing\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.kent.ac.uk\/about\/outreach.html\">outreach activities<\/a> to schools and colleges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Fernando Otero has been appointed as the new Deputy Head of School (Medway), with immediate effect. Fernando has been a lecturer in the School &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2019\/09\/04\/fernando-otero-appointed-as-deputy-head-of-school-medway\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5321,"featured_media":2166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[178041,124],"tags":[150018,8834],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions\/2167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}