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In response to the government unveiling an AI tool that can be used to block terrorist content before it uploaded to the web Professor of Computing Ian McLoughlin has said that the success of the technology will only improve over time as it continues to learn. 'While the company behind this algorithm is extremely sensitive to revealing any details, we know that it's based on machine learning technology. From the g...

Dr Özgür Kafalı has joined the University of Kent as a lecturer in the School of Computing. Özgür is a member of the Cyber Security Research Group and is based at the Canterbury campus. Özgür Kafalı received his undergraduate, MS, and PhD degrees from Boğaziçi University, one of the top universities in Turkey. During his MS and PhD, he developed Artificial Intelligence agents for e-commerce as we...

Shujun Li has joined the University of Kent as a Professor of Cyber Security in the School of Computing. Shujun will head up the School's Security Research Group and the university-wide Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security. Shujun has a prolific publishing record with over 100 scientific papers published since 2000, including two Best Paper Awards. His research interests are mainly on cyber security, human factors, multimedia co...

The School is advertising for a talented student for a funded PhD in Cyber Security. The precise area of research can be specified by the student when they apply. The research will be supervised by Shujun Li, the new Professor of Cyber Security, who will take up his appointment at the University of Kent in November. The School of Computing provides comprehensive support for its research students including: regular sup...

(l-r Budi, Julio and Laura) Three academics from the School of Computing have been given recognition of their ongoing achievements by being promoted. Laura Bocchi has been promoted to Senior Lecturer. Laura is a member of the Programming Langages and Systems research group and her research  spans several areas, which include software engineering, concurrency and formal methods. Laura has also taken on the role of Postgraduate Research Admissions Officer. Budi Arief has also been pro...

Organisations across Kent will be able to receive help and support dealing with cyber security threats thanks to a new offering from the Kent IT Consultancy (KITC), based within the School of Computing at the University of Kent. The KITC brings together final-year and postgraduate students at the University’s Canterbury and Medway campuses and is designed to provide the opportunity to work with real-world business cli...

The School is advertising for a talented student for a funded PhD in Cyber Security. The precise area of research can be specified by the student when they apply. The research will be supervised by Shujun Li, the new Professor of Cyber Security, who will take up his appointment at the University of Kent in November. The School of Computing provides comprehensive support for its research students including: regular supervision meetings a research traini...

As part of the University of Kent Think Kent series – a collection of YouTube videos celebrating research with international impact at the University – Professor David Chadwick explores why identity theft is so easy to enact today over the Internet, and how it can be prevented by utilising the latest research in verifiable credentials. Verifiable credentials can prove your entitlements to an Inte...

Palaniappan Ramaswamy, University of Kent Biometrics – technology that can recognise individuals based on physical and behavioural traits such as their faces, voices or fingerprints – are becoming increasingly important to combat financial fraud and security threats. This is because traditional approaches, such as those based on PIN numbers or passwords, are proving too easil...

Students from the School of Computing have been preparing themselves for a national security competition. Because the University of Kent is an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research, its students are eligible to compete alongside students from prestigious universities such as Imperial, Cambridge and Oxford in the annual Inter-ACE Cyberchallenge. In preparation, on Saturday 19 November, ten students attended the Inter-ACE Seminar in Cambridg...