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Computing students successful at OpenBright Awards
We are pleased to announce that two Ā鶹ֱ²„ Computing students have been selected as recipients of the OpenBright Awards!
Computing students shortlisted for OpenBright Award
Ā鶹ֱ²„ is proud to share that two students from the School of Computing have been shortlisted for the OpenBright awards.
Computing students attend BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium 2026
Ā鶹ֱ²„ students Linaya Piyaratne and Dianah Naigah were selected to present their projects at the Annual BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium.
Ā鶹ֱ²„ welcomes partnership with OpenBright Foundation to support women in Computing
In light of the University's commitment to diversity, inclusion, and academic excellence in STEM, we are excited to announce this OpenBright partnership.
School of Computing hosts Cyber Resilience workshop for Ā鶹ֱ²„shire businesses
The School of Computing hosted a Ā鶹ֱ²„shire Business First event to explore current cyber security challenges and solutions.
The School of Computing Hosts BCS Event on The Future of Cyber Attacks in AI Era
Ā鶹ֱ²„'s School of Computing hosted this event to explore the rapidly evolving cyber security landscape.
Dr Athar Ali achieves Senior Fellowship of Advance HE
Dr Arthar Ali has progressed from Fellow (FAHE) to Senior Fellow (SFAHE) of Advance HE.
Madara Premawardhana Wins Third Prize in OpenWeather Challenge 2025
Congratulations to PhD student Madara Premawardhana, who won third prize in the OpenWeather Challenge 2025.
Summer 2025 Computing Seminars
The Computing Seminar Series highlights the breadth and quality of the postgraduate research across our School.
Grand Challenge Project: 24-hour Hackathon
Computing students completed the hackathon, with a focus on solutions for Clean Water & Sanitation, Affordable & Clean Energy and Life on Land.
Philip Obiorah selected to conduct workshop at DevFest Scotland 2025
Philip Obiorah has had a workshop proposal accepted for Google Developer Groups' DevFest in Scotland 2025.
Computing student presents at 2025 Medical Image Understanding and Analysis Conference
PhD Computing student, Ethan, presented his latest research at the 2025 Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA) Conference.
School of Computing Poster Session 2025
Students and staff from around the University attended The School of Computing's annual poster session this October.
Celebrating the first learning day of our Digital and Technology Solutions Specialist apprentices
Our newest intake of Level 7 Digital & Technology Solutions Specialist apprentices visited Ā鶹ֱ²„ for their first in-person learning day.
Industry speaker: Robotics lecture and humanoid robot at The University of Ā鶹ֱ²„
A humanoid robot and mini robot visited Verney Park Campus and helped to deliver the penultimate lecture of computing's Robotics module.
Computing Seminars ā Spring 2025
Gain an overview of The School of Computing's weekly seminar series for all current computing students.
Ā鶹ֱ²„ tech lands at Goodwood
The University of Ā鶹ֱ²„ās School of Computing was featured at the 2025 Goodwood Festival of Speed's Future Lab exhibition.
Winter 2025 Computing Seminars
Gain an overview of our recent Winter Seminars, which are just one part of the vibrant research environment in Computing at Ā鶹ֱ²„ that fosters collaboration, in-depth discussion and intellectual exchange.
Computing Research Excellence at AI UK 2025
PhD Computing students, Madara Premawardhana and Rashmi Perera, recently took part in the Alan Turing Institute - AI UK 2025
School of Computing achieves triple award win in MK STEM Awards 2025
Ā鶹ֱ²„ won an impressive three awards at the MK Stem Awards 2025.
School of Computing achieve a trio shortlist in MK STEM Awards 2025
The School of Computing has been shortlisted in three categories of the MK STEM Awards, which celebrate outstanding achievements within the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics community.
School of Computing welcomes 11th cohort for the MSc Applied Data Science (Degree Apprenticeship)
The School of Computing welcomed its 11th cohort of learners on the Level 7 MSc Applied Data Science (Degree Apprenticeship).
Computing students treated to afternoon tea by the Friends of the University
The Friends treated several international Computing students to afternoon tea.
‘Rising Star’ University of Ā鶹ֱ²„ student
31 year-old Jehan Ghafuri has been named as one of the 50 Rising Stars by ‘Women of the Future’ in ESG (Environment, Social, Governance). Jehan, an Artificial Intelligence researcher and DPhil student at the University of Ā鶹ֱ²„, has achieved theā¦
Friends Pay a ‘Flying’ Visit to University of Ā鶹ֱ²„!
The Friends of the University had the chance to try out a virtual flying machine and meet a robot dog, when they visited The University of Ā鶹ֱ²„ās refurbished School of Computing! The Friends are a voluntary group which raises moneyā¦
History of Art meets Artificial Intelligence
As an Alumna of The University of Ā鶹ֱ²„, through my M.A. in History of Art, it was delightful to be invited to the āReturn to Campusā event on 19 November 2021. Amongst many interesting conversations of that evening were severalā¦
University of Ā鶹ֱ²„ launches AI and Innovation hub
The University of Ā鶹ֱ²„ School of Computingās Centre for Artificial Intelligence and innovation hub was officially opened by Lord Clement Jones today. A former chair of the House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence, Lord Clement Jones was joinedā¦
Robotic dog joins The University of Ā鶹ֱ²„ School of Computing
The University of Ā鶹ֱ²„ has a new robotic dog that is not only helping Computing students to be at the forefront of robotics and artificial intelligence but which, is also going to be used in collaboration with businesses and localā¦
Student advancements at the TenD Innovations Centre
The University of Ā鶹ֱ²„ās School of Computing and TenD Innovations in Shanghai established a collaborative partnership in 2018Since then research students at the TenD Centre have been developing machine and deep learning solutions for cancer detection. As well as recognitionā¦
āState of the Art and Automated Rumour Verification in Social Media Conversationsā, a guest seminar by Dr Elena Kochkina, University of Warwick and the Alan Turing Institute, London
Social media have gained a tremendous increase in popularity across the world as means of delivery of breaking news and stories on a wide range of issues faster than traditional media. However, absence of content verification on social media resultsā¦
The Second Cancer Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging with Deep Learning (CDUDL) Workshop
The 2nd Cancer Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging with Deep Learning (CDUDL) Workshop 2020, organised by School of Computing, took place virtually on 11th October 2020. The CDUDL workshop is a forum for clinicians, researchers and doctoral candidates to discuss recent developmentsā¦
OMH-LoRa: An on-the-go Multi-hop Connectivity Enhancement for LoRa Nodesā Access and Range
Student name: Alnoman Abdulhudhur Supervisor: Professor Ihsan Lami On Friday 14 February, Alnoman presented his research project at the School of Computing Seminar Series, introducing OMH-LoRa, an on-the-go multi hop connectivity enhancement for LoRa nodesā access and range, used forā¦
The difficulty of Method Validation, illustrated with examples taken from Computer-Aided Drug Design
Professor Paul Finn is a Professorial Research Fellow at The University of Ā鶹ֱ²„ and is the Chief Executive Officer for Oxford Drug Design. In this seminar, Paul explores how methods in drug design need to be validated in order toā¦
Moving the Insurance Industry into the Digital Age
On 1 November, former University of Ā鶹ֱ²„ PhD student and visiting Senior Research Fellow, Dr Jeremy Martin, presented a talk on the role of an Enterprise Architect in the digital evolution of the insurance industry, reflecting his work at theā¦
Sarajevo Partnership Graduation
On 28 September, the Sarajevo School of Science and Technology held its annual graduation ceremony for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of Computer Science and Information Systems, Political Science and International Relations and Economics with undergraduate and postgraduateā¦
Introduction into CISCO
On Friday 25 October, Dr Hisham Al-Assam introduced preliminary and first year students to CISCO, providing them with the opportunity to develop their skills in programming, cyber security and networking. CISCO provides world coverage in Information Technologies, Networking and Cybersecurity,ā¦
Undergraduate project induction
On 16 October, the School of Computing held a project presentation session for first year students, with the project co-coordinator, Dr Tuan Nguyen, giving academics the opportunity to showcase their project ideas for students to choose from in the upcomingā¦
MK Innovates: A STEM Festival
The University of Ā鶹ֱ²„ās School of Computing and School of Psychology attended MK Innovates: A STEM Festival to showcase their research in AI, Cybersecurity and Psychology to local schools and businesses. The Milton Keynes Innovates STEM festival is held onceā¦
Cancer Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging with Deep Learning (CDUDL) Workshop
On 7 October, the Cancer Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging with Deep Learning (CDUDL) Workshop, organised by Ten-D Ā鶹ֱ²„ Centre, allowed researchers and students to discuss the recent development in ultrasound imaging. The number of ultrasound imaging research for cancer diagnostic isā¦
Ten-D Innovations visit to Ā鶹ֱ²„
Ten-D Innovations chairman Mr Qifu Chen and Dr Yi-Cheng Zhu of Renmin Hospital visited The University of Ā鶹ֱ²„ earlier this week to meet the whole team at Ten-D Ā鶹ֱ²„ Research and Development Centre and review work progress. Since the partnershipā¦
Philip Blake discussing EC-Council Academia partnerships
EC-Council Academia specialises in global information services, industry training and certifications in Cyber Security. With certifications for over 300,000 members and over 300 partnerships with United States universities, EC-Council focuses on bridging the gap in the market for Cyber Securityā¦
Sarah Davis discussing The Power of Design
On the 2 September, Sarah Davis held a seminar on The Power of Design, giving School of Computing students an insight into the importance of visualisation and the need and impact of user interface design to an audience. With theā¦
Dr Thomas Longshaw discussing Database Patterns and Big Data
Dr Thomas Longshaw introduces Zizo Software, a Milton Keynes based company who specialise in providing a āschema-lessā memory-based data warehouse capability and any form of analytical solution. Their projects include data analytics and logistic digital transformation with customer companies suchā¦
Best research paper awarded by the International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Computing
University of Ā鶹ֱ²„ PhD student, Ali Al-Ameri and his supervisor, Professor Ihsan Lami have published a paper in the International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Computing, which was held at the London Metropolitan University on the 19-20th August 2019. Withā¦
Dr Martin Dietze, discussing Individual Software Projects – from Tender to Rollout
Dermalog is a company specialising in bio-metric systems which involve fingerprint and facial identification to be able to see if an individualās identity can be verified. The systems are widely deployed on bio-metric border control scanners for automatic facial andā¦
Work in progress by Ossama Al-Maliki, discussing A Tokenisation Technique for the Security on Contactless Cards
Name: Ossama Al-Maliki ā DPhil in Computing Supervisor: Dr Hisham Al-Aassam (1st) / Dr Tuan Nguyen (2nd) Ossama introduces the meaning of EMV payment protocol and how much it impacts our daily life through the consistent use in both creditā¦
Dr Matthew Burfitt discussing Mapper-type Algorithms
University of Southampton speaker, Dr Matthew Burfitt, explains that this research investigates the stability of the Topological Data Analysis tool of Mapper in clustering various types of data into a limited number of clustered subsets. Mapper, works first by choosingā¦
Dr Stuart Hall discussing Mathematical Image Analysis
In his talk University of Newcastle speaker, Dr Stuart Hall, described how ideas from differential geometry, in particular the Ricci flow, can be useful for image analysis. In the first part of his talk, he introduced concepts from the theoryā¦
Work in progress by Lionel Ndambeun, discussing Autonomous Drone Navigation
Name: Lionel Ndambeunā PhD in Computer Science Supervisor: Dr Harin Sellahewa Lionelās research focuses on the use of autonomous swarm of drones to maintain line-of-sight of targets of interest. Such a swarm of drones could provide support to the policeā¦
Poster Presentation Evening
The Poster Presentation is one of the key outputs for the Undergraduate Project; this is an opportunity for second year students to present their work to a wider audience. In addition to University staff and lecturers there were guest representativesā¦
Computing Community Meet Up
Each term the School of Computing holds an informal Computing Community Meet Up for students. This is an opportunity to share achievements, thoughts, ideas and concerns with staff and fellow students in a relaxed environment.Ā The School also provides updatesā¦
Deep fake image and video tampering detection by Professor Sabah Jassim
Topological Data Analysis (TDA) and its main tool of Persistent Homology (PH) aims to prevent and detect deep fake image attacks on face biometric systems by using classifying Persistent Homology parameters computed for automatically selected image landmarks. An example ofā¦
Work in Progress by Olasupo Oyedepo, discussing Digital Health Governance
Student: Olasupo Oyedepo ā MSc in Computing by Research Supervisor: Dr Harin Sellahewa Olasupo Oyedepo began his work in progress seminar with the School of Computing on the 19th July by introducing the audience to the concepts of digital health,ā¦
School of Computing workshop with Bedford Girlsā School
Bedford school for girls visited The University of Ā鶹ֱ²„, School of Computing on the 28th June. Their visit began with an introduction from the Interim Dean, Dr Harin Sellahewa along with an insight into their plan for the day. Theā¦
EGL-B mathematics conference
EGL-B workshop summary The EGL-B mathematics conference begins on 4th of June with an introduction from Professor Sabah Jassim of The University of Ā鶹ֱ²„, welcoming the speakers and attendees from the universities of Essex, Greenwich, London and Ā鶹ֱ²„. The topicsā¦
Computing Collaborative Research and Development with TenD Innovations Reaches an Important Milestone
Our research partnership with Ten-D Innovations has recently reached an important milestone. Ā The research team in medical image analysis has developed an effective deep learning approach that enables recognition of thyroid and breast cancers from ultrasound images with levels ofā¦
Antibiotic Drug Discovery in the Era of Superbugs
Mr Marco Albanese began his work in progress seminar by introducing us to his academic background.Ā Having studied for his mastersā degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology at the University of Salerno, Marco currently works on behalf of the Oxfordā¦
Computing students win a share of Ā£3000 in Enterprise Competition
The Enterprise Competition sponsored by the Engineering in Business Fellowship (EIBF), held at The University of Ā鶹ֱ²„, gives students the chance to compete for a share of Ā£3000 to go towards their entrepreneurial start-up idea. Teams pitched and presented ideasā¦
Work in Progress seminar by Mohammad Ahmed, discussing Deep Learning for Cancer Recognition from Ultrasound Images
Mohammed began his discussion with us on 3rdĀ May and began by introducing his project, āTowards Deep Learning for Cancer Recognition from Ultrasound Imagesā. In the introduction, he explains what defines as cancer, showing examples of cancerous cells and their typesā¦
EIBF Computing Competition
The School of Computing and the Engineering in Business Fellowship began a competition for students on the evening of April 11th. Our two Alumni members, Sahand Shahriari and Godwin Ebikwo gave us a presentation on their progress from the competition,ā¦
Ground-breaking computing and AI centre comes to University of Ā鶹ֱ²„
Four new courses will be launched at a pioneering Computing and Centre for AIĀ at Ā鶹ֱ²„ thanks to a Ā£2m donation. The University has been awarded Ā£2m by Ā鶹ֱ²„shire Thames Valley Local Enterprise Partnership (BTVLEP), which will enable it to buildā¦
Ā鶹ֱ²„ās School of Computing has been awarded re-accreditation by a prestigious IT body
Ā鶹ֱ²„ās School of Computing has been awarded re-accreditation by a prestigious IT body. British Computer Society (BCS), the Chartered Institute for IT, has accredited all of The University of Ā鶹ֱ²„ās School of Computingās undergraduate programmes for fully meeting the academicā¦
Computing Strengthening Collaborative Research and Development with TenD Innovations
As a part of our research partnership with Ten-D Innovations, Dr. Alaa AlZoubi, Research Fellow of TenD Ā鶹ֱ²„ Research and Development Centre, has recently made his second research visit to Shanghai, China. The primary aim of the visit was toā¦
Work in progress seminar by Saif Hussein, discussing Quantification of the Epidermis Curvature
Saif began his work in progress talk with us on the 22nd of March and started by discussing the automatic quantification of epidermis curvature in H&E stained microscope skin images of mice. He introduces his work by first showing usā¦
Work in Progress seminar by Dongxu Han, discussing Controlling Sensitivity of Gaussian Bayes Predictions based on Eigenvalue Thresholding
Dongxu Han begin his seminar on Friday the 15th of March, with background information on his research which he studied during his PhD. Referring to how designing a clinical decision support system for doctors could aid patientās health and speedā¦
āBig Mathematics for Big Dataā, a seminar by University of Oxford Professor Vidit Nanda.
Professor Vidit Nanda started his seminar with us on Friday 1st of March. He Began his talk by showing some theoretical results (theorems) of topological data analysis, explaining the validity of them in association to his work and following onā¦
Work in progress seminar by Tim Millward, discussing IoT networks, AI and fog computing for smart agriculture
Tim Millward presented his seminar with us on the 22nd February. He began by discussing the current pestilence problem with fruit flies affecting farm land, produce and how IoT and A.I based devices could be the solution. Continents such asā¦
Dr Vitaliy Kurlin discussing polygonal meshes of superpixels for image over-segmentation based on topological skeletons
Dr Vitaliy Kurlin presented a talk with us on the 15Ā February, discussing āPolygonal meshes of superpixels for image over-segmentation based on topological skeletonsā. This talk provided students and academics with an insight into his work and how the process ofā¦
School pupils experience codebreaking and augmented reality at Ā鶹ֱ²„
Head of Applied Computing Dr Harin Sellahewa and Dr Tuan Nguyen delivered the interactive codebreaking session at school for the 22 students. Nick Davidson, Year 6 teacher at the school, near Ā鶹ֱ²„, said: āThe sessions were excellently resourced and delivered.ā¦
Ā鶹ֱ²„ Applied Computing Department in Ā£1.3m partnership with technology innovation company Ten-D
The Applied Computing Department at The University of Ā鶹ֱ²„ has entered into a partnership with technology innovation company Ten-D Innovations to establish world-class research and development centres in China and in Ā鶹ֱ²„. Ten-D Innovations, based in Lingang, Shanghai, is providingā¦
Publication of the week: Paul W Finn
Antibiotics to treat bacterial infections have transformed human health.Ā However, much in the news in recent years has been the emergence of bacteria resistant to many, and in some cases all, of the currently available drugs. If this threat continuesā¦
University of Ā鶹ֱ²„ gets gold standard in teaching excellence awards
The University of Ā鶹ֱ²„ has come at the top of the rankings in the first-ever Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) rankings. The government has assessed universities on six key criteria including teaching quality, academic support, student progression, employability and success andā¦
Publication of the week: Nasiru Ibrahim & Dr Harin Sellahewa
Ibrahim, N. & H. Sellahewa, “Touch gesture-based authentication: A security analysis of Pattern Unlock”, IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis (New Delhi, 2017). DOI: 10.1109/ISBA.2017.7947711. Pattern Unlock is one in a family of graphical passwords used onā¦
Ā鶹ֱ²„ās Brownies take over the Department of Applied Computing
On Thursday 11 May the Department of Applied ComputingĀ invited the Brownies of the Girlguiding Ā鶹ֱ²„shire group over to experience the exciting world of Computer Science. During their visit the girls, aged 7-10 years, learned the basics of programming conceptsā¦
Publication of the week: Omar Al Okashi, Hongbo Du and Hisham Al-Assam
Omar Al Okashi, Hongbo Du and Hisham Al-Assam, āAutomatic spine curvature estimation from X-ray images of a mouse modelā, Journal of Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 140 (March 2017), 175ā184. DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2016.12.010. Automatic segmentation and quantification of skeletal structuresā¦
Talk by Dr Hisham Al-Assam at the U3A Science & Technology Group Meeting
Dr Hisham Al-Assam was invited to give a talk at the Ā鶹ֱ²„ U3A Science & Technology Group Meeting, The Royal Latin School, Ā鶹ֱ²„, on 1 March 2017. The aim of the talk titled āMachine Learning – Current and Future Applicationsāā¦
Milton Keynes female pupils enjoy a computing lesson at The University of Ā鶹ֱ²„
A group of the most talented female maths students from a Milton Keynes school learnt what it was like to do computer programming at University in a bid to encourage more girls to take up the subject. A group ofā¦
Publication of the week: Dongxu Han, Hongbo Du & Sabah Jassim
āTowards a Confidence-Centric Classification Based on Gaussian Models and Bayesian Principlesā,Ā Proceedings of 9th York Doctoral Symposium on Computer Science and Electronics (University of York, November 2016), 46-56. Classification is an essential form of machine learning. It has been widely usedā¦
Publication of the week: H.S. Maghdid & I.A. Lami
H.S Maghdid, I.A. Lami, K.Z Ghafoor & J. Lloret, “Seamless Outdoors-Indoors Localization Solutions on Smartphones: Implementation and Challenges”, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) 48.4 (May 2016), article 53; doi: 10.1145/2871166 The demand for more sophisticated Location-Based Services (LBS) in terms ofā¦
Publication of the week: Dongxu Han, Naseer Al-Jawad & Hongbo Du
āFacial expression identification using 3D geometric features from Microsoft Kinect deviceā, Proc. SPIEĀ 9869, Mobile Multimedia / Image Processing, Security, and Applications 2016 (ed. Sos S. Agaian, Sabah A. Jassim), 986903-1 (May 19, 2016); doi:10.1117/12.2223029 Facial expression identification is an importantā¦
Talk by Dr Hisham Al-Assam at St Paulās Catholic School
Dr Hisham Al-Assam was invited again to give a talk at St Paulās Catholic School, Milton Keynes, on 11 May 2016,Ā as part of their Public Understanding of Science lectures. The aim of the talk titled āArtificial Intelligence: Can Machines Outperformā¦
Applied Computing staff and research students at conference in USA
In April, Professor Sabah Jassim and computing research students Dongxu and Saif attended the SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing (formerly DSS) symposium in Baltimore. Professor Jassim is a co-chair of the Mobile Multimedia / Image Processing, Security, and Applications conferenceā¦
Talk by Professor Nuno Carvalho, University of Aveiro
The Applied Computing Department welcomed Professor Nuno Carvalho from the University of Aveiro in Portugal (Telecommunications Institute – Electronics Department – Telecommunications and Computing) to give an invited talk and to explore avenues for collaborative research. Professor Carvalho presented toā¦
University of Ā鶹ֱ²„ Football Club won Trophy Final
On Wednesday 20 April 2016, in what proved to be an exhilarating and memorable night, our University football team defeated Willen FC 4-2. The event was hosted by Ā鶹ֱ²„ Athletic Football Club. Our team immediately took the lead by scoringā¦
Seminar by Dr Hisham Al-Assam at the Open University
Dr Hisham Al-Assam was invited to give a seminar to the LHCS Research Group at the Open University, on 19 April 2016,Ā as part of their LHCS Research Seminar Programme 2016. In his talk, āComputational life science: has it been successfulā¦
Applied Computing students visit the National Museum of Computing
Applied Computing students had the opportunity to visit The National Museum of Computing on 11 March. Most of them had already heard about the museum and/or Bletchley Park but had never had the opportunity to visit. They received a guidedā¦
Applied Computing students visit Bletchley Park
On 4 March, a group of Applied Computing students visited Bletchley Park, a historic site a few miles from Ā鶹ֱ²„ where secret messages, mostly high-profile military information, were deciphered during the Second World War. Some of the students already knewā¦
Visit by the delegation from the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture
We were delighted to welcome the Inspector General and two research managers from the Ministry of Agriculture in Iraq together with the Managing Director of Russell IPM. The purpose of the meeting was to consider if we can help theā¦
Ā鶹ֱ²„ās educational partner wins Best University Award
The Sarajevo School of Science and Technology (SSST) – which has close ties with The University of Ā鶹ֱ²„ – has won the Special Award for the Best University in Bosnia and Herzogovina in 2015. The award was presented to Emirā¦
Publication of the week: H. Al-Assam, T. Kuseler, S. Jassim & S. Zeadally
Al-Assam, H., T. Kuseler, S. Jassim & S. Zeadally, āPrivacy in Biometric Systemsā, in S. Zeadally & M. Badra (eds), Privacy in a Digital, Networked World: Technologies, Implications and Solutions (Springer, Oct 2015), 235-263, ISBN 978-3-319-08469-5. This chapter is mainlyā¦
Work-in-Progress Seminars in Applied Computing Department, Autumn 2015
The Work in Progress Seminars continue this term with the following 4 seminars. Week Date Speaker Title Friday (week 5) 30 October Alan Abdulla Exploiting Similarities between Secret and Cover images for Improved Embedding Efficiency and Security in Digital Steganographyā¦
Knowledge Transfer Partnership between Russell IPM and The University of Ā鶹ֱ²„
Russell IPM is a market leader in providing customer focused solutions to the issues faced by pest controllers. They will be working on a KTP project with Dr Ihsan Lami and Professor Sabah Jassim in the Applied Computing Department thatā¦
Graduation at Sarajevo
On 26 September SSST held its annual graduation ceremony and awarded students from the fields of Computer Science and Information Systems, Political Science and International Relations and Economics with undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, validated by The University of Ā鶹ֱ²„. Studentsā¦
Department of Applied Computing receives Knowledge Transfer Partnership Funding
Dr Harin Sellahewa and Dr Hisham Al-Assam of the Applied Computing Department, and Deepnet Security based at Bletchley Park have been granted Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) funding from Innovate UK, the UK government agency responsible for supporting innovation. The grantā¦
Publication of the week: A. Al-Talabani, H. Sellahewa & S.A. Jassim
A. Al-Talabani, H. Sellahewa & S.A. Jassim, āEmotion recognition from speech: Tools and challengesā, Proc. SPIE 9497, Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing, Security, and Applications 2015, 94970N, April 2015. DOI: 10.1117/12.2191623. Human emotion recognition from speech is studied frequently for its importanceā¦
Work in Progress Seminars, Summer Term
The Work in Progress Seminars continue this term with the following 6 seminars. Friday, 24 July 2015Ā Ā Ā David Daouda Traore, “Automatic Analysis of Cellular Signalling Parameters Based on Fluorescent Video Imaging” Friday, 7 August 2015Ā Ā Ā Chigozirim Oriaku, “Enhancing Cloud Computingā¦
BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium 2015: Applied Computing student wins prestigious poster competition
A University of Ā鶹ֱ²„ MSc student has won a prestigious academic poster competition with a design reflecting a pioneering interactive project aimed at teaching students about the anatomy of the human body. Dhiya Al-Saqri won the Best MSc Poster atā¦
Publication of the week: S. Khazendar, H. Al-Assam, H. Du, S. Jassim et al.
Khazendar, S., A. Sayasneh, H. Al-Assam, H. Du, J. Kaijser, L. Ferrara, D. Timmerman, S. Jassim & T. Bourne, āAutomated characterisation of ultrasound images of ovarian tumours: the diagnostic accuracy of a support vector machine and image processing with aā¦
App launched to help mature students
The first app aimed at mature students is the only of its kind and will help them get acclimatised to the academic world. University of Ā鶹ֱ²„ business students have developed the Student Proxy App to help the users in allā¦
Talk by Dr Hisham Al-Assam at St Paulās Catholic School
Dr Hisham Al-Assam was invited to give a talk at St Paulās Catholic School, Milton Keynes, on 22 January 2015,Ā as part of their Public Understanding of Science lectures. In his talk, āComputer Science in Medical and Biomedical Researchā, Dr Al-Assamā¦
Applied Computing is heading the first KTP project of the University
The Department of Applied Computing just started a 3-year Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project on secure face recognition. A grant of Ā£160,000 jointly funded by Innovate UK and a local information security company DeepNet Security in Bletchley Park, was securedā¦
University of Ā鶹ֱ²„ Applied Computing Department receives prestigious accreditation
The Universityās Applied Computing Department has received accreditation from the prestigious British Computer Society (BCS), a world-class professional body, which will enable students to enhance their standing and employability in the field of IT. A panel of BCS accreditation assessorsā¦
Talk by Dr Harin Sellahewa to the Biometrics Institute
Dr Harin Sellahewa was invited to give a talk at the Biometrics Institute Member Meeting held at the Australian High Commission in London on 27 February 2015. His talk, “Using steganography to enhance security of biometric data exchange“, presented aā¦
Academic visitors to the Department of Applied Computing
During the latter part of the Autumn term Dr Stuart Hall, a research lecturer in Mathematics in the Department, hosted a visit from Dr Wafaa Batat. Wafaa is a researcher at the Ćcole Nationale Polytechnique dāOran, Algeria who works inā¦
Publication of the week: A.A. Abdulla, H. Sellahewa & S.A. Jassim
Abdulla, A.A., Sellahewa, H. & Jassim, S.A., “Stego quality enhancement by message size reduction and fibonacci bit-plane mapping”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 8893 (2014), pp.151-166 Steganography isā¦
New Head of Applied Computing
Last November, Dr Harin Sellahewa took over as Head of Applied Computing from Professor Sabah Jassim who will remain in a non-managerial role. Professor Jassim is sad to step down but feels he is leaving the Department in good hands,ā¦
Grants and awards
Dr Ihsan Lami has been awarded an STSM (Short Term Scientific Mission) Award from the European COST IC1301 Action for two of his DPhil students (Mr AlbuRghaif and Mr AlAbodi) to visit the University of Gent’s Department of Information Systemsā¦
Publication of the week: Professor Paul Finn
Oliver Korb, Paul W. Finn & Gareth Jones, “The cloud and other new computational methods to improve molecular modelling”,Ā Expert Opinion on Drug DiscoveryĀ 2014, 9, 1121-1131.Ā doi: 10.1517/17460441.2014.941800. Industrial, as well as academic, drug discovery efforts are usually supported by computationalā¦
Two-year BSc (Hons) Computing and Software Entrepreneurship
Please note: This Entrepreneurship is no longer available. View our BSc (Hons) Computing 2-year degree. The University of Ā鶹ֱ²„ has developed a unique two-year undergraduate degree programme in Computer Science, which incorporates self-directed projects encouraging entrepreneurial development through innovative creation.ā¦
Publication of the week: A. Abdulla, H. Sellahewa & S. Jassim
A.A. Abdulla, H. Sellahewa & S.A. Jassim, āSteganography based on pixel intensity value decompositionā, Proc. Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing, Security, and Applications (SPIE 9120, 912005, May 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2050518. This paper focuses on steganography based on pixel intensity value decomposition. Aā¦
Top salaries for Ā鶹ֱ²„ graduates
University of Ā鶹ֱ²„ students come fourth ā excluding London institutions ā when it comes to graduate salaries, according to The Sunday Times. With graduates earning Ā£24,175 on average in the first six months after leaving, the University is only beatenā¦
Publication of the week: H. Du, H. Al-Jubouri & H. Sellahewa
H. Du, H. Al-Jubouri & H. Sellahewa, āEffectiveness of image features and similarity measures in cluster-based approaches for content-based image retrievalā, Proc. Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing, Security, and Applications (SPIE 9120, 912008, May 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2057721. Content-based image retrieval is anā¦
Publication of the week: Professor Paul Finn
G. Lauro, N. Ferruz, S. Fulle , M.J. Harvey, P.W. Finn & G. De Fabritiis, “Reranking docking poses using molecular simulations and approximate free energy methods”, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 54.8 (2014),Ā 2185ā2189. DOI: 10.1021/ci500309a. Computational modelling techniquesā¦
Publication of the week: Dr Stuart Hall
Hall, S., “Perelmanās entropy for some families of canonical metricsā,Ā Experimental Mathematics 23.3 (2014), 277-284. DOI:10.1080/10586458.2014.898220. In the early 1980s a mathematician called Richard Hamilton showed that one could treat the curvature of abstract mathematical spaces (things called manifolds) a bitā¦
Publication of the week: Dr Stuart Hall
Hall, S. & T. Murphy, “Bounding Lambda_2 for some KƤhler-Einstein metrics with large symmetry groupsā,Ā Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry46.2 (2014), 145-158. The Einstein equations govern how the high-dimensional spacesĀ used in modern theories of space-timeĀ (known as manifolds) curve. Ā One centralā¦
Publication of the week: Adam Floyd & Hongbo Du
A. Floyd & H. Du, āEdna: a Software Tool for Verifying Normalisation of Relations during Logical Database Design Processā, 12th HEA STEM Workshop on Teaching, Learning and Assessment of Databases (University of Southampton: Higher Education Academy, July 2014), 51-61 Logicalā¦
Publication of the week: Suleyman Al-Showarah, Naseer Al-Jawad & Harin Sellahewa
Al-Showarah, S., N. Al-Jawad & H. Sellahewa, “Effects of User Age on Smartphone and Tablet Use, Measured with an Eye-Tracker via Fixation Duration, Scan-Path Duration, and Saccades Proportion”,Ā Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Universal Access to Information and Knowledge (Lecture Notesā¦
Publication of the week: Dr Stuart Hall
Hall, S. & T. Murphy, āOn the spectrum of the Page and the Chen-LeBrun-Weber metricsā,Ā Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry 46.1, 87-101 (2014).Ā DOI: 10.1007/s10455-014-9412-6 The spectrum of an operator on a space tells one how functions on theā¦
The Second Cancer Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging with Deep Learning (CDUDL) WorkshopĀ (November 2020)
The 2nd Cancer Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging with Deep Learning (CDUDL) Workshop 2020, organised by School of Computing, took place virtually on 11th October 2020. The CDUDL workshop is a forum for clinicians, researchers and doctoral candidates to discuss recent developments in artificial intelligence and deep learning techniques, and their application in automated analysis of ultrasound images to detect cancers. Read more.
HEA STEM Workshop at Ā鶹ֱ²„ (May 2012)
A Higher Education Academy STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) workshop on Mobile Application Development: from curriculum design to graduate employability was held in Ā鶹ֱ²„ on 15 May 2012. Dr Harin Sellahewa gave a presentation entitled āā. There is a full report in Christopher Douce’s blog (Open University website).
Applied Computing Students at the BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium 2012 (April 2012)
Three Computing students from Ā鶹ֱ²„ were selected to attend and present their individual projects at the 5th BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium held at the University of Bath on 12th April 2012. Our students were among the 40 best selected to receive a Google travel and accommodation grant. Read more.
STEM Annual Conference (April 2012)
Dr Harin Sellahewa presented a paper on “Enhancing Small Group Teaching and Learning using Online Student Response Systems” at the STEM Annual Conference 2012 at Imperial College London in April 2012. Read more.
Publication by Dr Harin Sellahewa (November 2011)
Harin Sellahewa’s article “Using an online student response system in small group teaching: a pilot study” appeared in Italics 10.3 (November 2011), published by the Higher Education Academy. Read the article.
Scholarships (October 2011)
The Department of Applied Computing is delighted to announce that it will be offering partial scholarships to BSc and MSc applicants applying for January 2012.
School of Science & Medicineās annual sports day and barbecue (July 2011)
On one day each year, scientists, psychologists and computer experts throw aside their work and come together to have a good old mess about …
Invited paper by Dr Harin Sellahewa
Dr Sellahewa gave a lecture on āFace recognition in unconstrained environmentsā at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka, in February 2011.
A Graduation with triumph (26 February 2011)
Saturday 26 February 2011 saw the graduation of students in the Applied Computing Department. They are Christopher Clayton (first class), Christian Mein, Daniel Okebukola, Sylvester Owino and Varan Thangeswaran for Bachelor of Science in Computing (honours), Richard Woodward (distinction) for Postgraduate Diploma in Computing, Waseem Al-Obaydy (distinction) and Kwame Boakye for Master of Science in Innovative Computing. They were joined by the third cohort of graduates in Computer Science and Information Systems from our partner institution, Sarajevo School of Science and Technology.
Dr Ihsan Lami joins Department (Tuesday 28 September 2010)
Dr Ihsan Lami has recently joined our team. With over 25 years experience in both industry and academia, he has been involved in the research, development and leadership of many successful chip designs for mobile phone and consumer applications. His current research focus is on the “Hybridisation of GNSS and wireless technologies for LBS and Security” and on “Security and localisation techniques for Wireless Mesh Networks connectivity and communication integrity”.
Applied Computing students visit Bletchley Park (Monday 17 May 2010)
On 30 April, a group of Applied Computing students visited Bletchley Park, a historic site a few miles from Ā鶹ֱ²„ where secret messages, mostly high profile military information, were deciphered during the Second World War. They were given a talk about the Colossus machine by Dr Tony Sale, and a guided tour of the National Museum of Computing.
Publication of Hongbo Du’s textbook (Monday 10 May 2010)
Data Mining Techniques and Applications: An Introduction was published this month. The book is the first of its kind that primarily targets undergraduate readers from computing-related disciplines. It covers a wide range of data mining techniques for classification, clustering and association rule discovery, and addresses practical issues in applying the techniques.
Applied Computing Department at a conference in Florida (Thursday 15 April 2010)
The “Mobile Multimedia / Image Processing, Security, and Applications” session of the SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing conference, held on 5-9 April 2010 at Orlando, Florida, was chaired jointly by Professor Sabah Jassim of Ā鶹ֱ²„ and Professor Sos Agaian of the University of Texas at San Antonio. The Applied Computing Department at Ā鶹ֱ²„ was again a main contributor to the conference, presenting four full papers and two posters.
Virtually There (Tuesday 10 March 2010)
On Friday, 5 March 2010, Colin Dalton, senior lecturer from the University of Bristol, was invited to Ā鶹ֱ²„ to give a talk on computer graphics. Using game animation sequences, computer generated images, interactive demonstrations and references to films such as Avatar, Stealth and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Colin explained the different stages of the process behind the making of modern films.