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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 mini传媒 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
mini传媒 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’ mini传媒 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 mini传媒, has achieved the鈥
Friends Pay a ‘Flying’ Visit to mini传媒!
The Friends of the University had the chance to try out a virtual flying machine and meet a robot dog, when they visited The mini传媒鈥檚 refurbished School of Computing! The Friends are a voluntary group which raises money鈥
History of Art meets Artificial Intelligence
As an Alumna of The mini传媒, through my M.A. in History of Art, it was delightful to be invited to the 鈥楻eturn to Campus鈥 event on 19 November 2021. Amongst many interesting conversations of that evening were several鈥
mini传媒 launches AI and Innovation hub
The mini传媒 School of Computing鈥檚 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 joined鈥
Robotic dog joins The mini传媒 School of Computing
The mini传媒 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 local鈥
Student advancements at the TenD Innovations Centre
The mini传媒鈥檚 School of Computing and TenD Innovations in Shanghai established a collaborative partnership in 2018. Since then research students at the TenD Centre have been developing machine and deep learning solutions for cancer detection. As well as鈥
鈥淪tate of the Art and Automated Rumour Verification in Social Media Conversations鈥, 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 results鈥
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 developments鈥
OMH-LoRa: An on-the-go Multi-hop Connectivity Enhancement for LoRa Nodes鈥 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 nodes鈥 access and range, used for鈥
The difficulty of Method Validation, illustrated with examples taken from Computer-Aided Drug Design
Professor Paul Finn is a Professorial Research Fellow at The mini传媒 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 to鈥
Moving the Insurance Industry into the Digital Age
On 1 November, former mini传媒 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 the鈥
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 postgraduate鈥
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,鈥
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 upcoming鈥
MK Innovates: A STEM Festival
The mini传媒鈥檚 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 once鈥
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 mini传媒 Centre, allowed researchers and students to discuss the recent development in ultrasound imaging. The number of ultrasound imaging research for cancer diagnostic is鈥
Ten-D Innovations visit to mini传媒
Ten-D Innovations chairman Mr Qifu Chen and Dr Yi-Cheng Zhu of Renmin Hospital visited The mini传媒 earlier this week to meet the whole team at Ten-D mini传媒 Research and Development Centre and review work progress. Since the partnership鈥
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 Security鈥
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 the鈥
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 鈥渟chema-less鈥 memory-based data warehouse capability and any form of analytical solution. Their projects include data analytics and logistic digital transformation with customer companies such鈥
Best research paper awarded by the International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Computing
mini传媒 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. With鈥
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 individual鈥檚 identity can be verified. The systems are widely deployed on bio-metric border control scanners for automatic facial and鈥
Work in progress by Ossama Al-Maliki, discussing A Tokenisation Technique for the Security on Contactless Cards
Name: Ossama Al-Maliki 鈥 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 credit鈥
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 choosing鈥
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 theory鈥
Work in progress by Lionel Ndambeun, discussing Autonomous Drone Navigation
Name: Lionel Ndambeun鈥 PhD in Computer Science Supervisor: Dr Harin Sellahewa Lionel鈥檚 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 police鈥
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 representatives鈥
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.聽 The School also provides updates鈥
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 of鈥
Work in Progress by Olasupo Oyedepo, discussing Digital Health Governance
Student: Olasupo Oyedepo 鈥 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,鈥
School of Computing workshop with Bedford Girls鈥 School
Bedford school for girls visited The mini传媒, 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. The鈥
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 mini传媒, welcoming the speakers and attendees from the universities of Essex, Greenwich, London and mini传媒. The topics鈥
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. 聽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 of鈥
Antibiotic Drug Discovery in the Era of Superbugs
Mr Marco Albanese began his work in progress seminar by introducing us to his academic background.聽 Having studied for his masters鈥 degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology at the University of Salerno, Marco currently works on behalf of the Oxford鈥
Computing students win a share of 拢3000 in Enterprise Competition
The Enterprise Competition sponsored by the Engineering in Business Fellowship (EIBF), held at The mini传媒, gives students the chance to compete for a share of 拢3000 to go towards their entrepreneurial start-up idea. Teams pitched and presented ideas鈥
Work in Progress seminar by Mohammad Ahmed, discussing Deep Learning for Cancer Recognition from Ultrasound Images
Mohammed began his discussion with us on 3rd聽May and began by introducing his project, 鈥楾owards Deep Learning for Cancer Recognition from Ultrasound Images鈥. In the introduction, he explains what defines as cancer, showing examples of cancerous cells and their types鈥
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,鈥
Ground-breaking computing and AI centre comes to mini传媒
Four new courses will be launched at a pioneering Computing and Centre for AI聽at mini传媒 thanks to a 拢2m donation. The University has been awarded 拢2m by mini传媒shire Thames Valley Local Enterprise Partnership (BTVLEP), which will enable it to build鈥
mini传媒鈥檚 School of Computing has been awarded re-accreditation by a prestigious IT body
mini传媒鈥檚 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 mini传媒鈥檚 School of Computing鈥檚 undergraduate programmes for fully meeting the academic鈥
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 mini传媒 Research and Development Centre, has recently made his second research visit to Shanghai, China. The primary aim of the visit was to鈥
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 us鈥
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 patient鈥檚 health and speed鈥
鈥楤ig Mathematics for Big Data鈥, 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 on鈥
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 as鈥
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 15聽February, discussing 鈥楶olygonal meshes of superpixels for image over-segmentation based on topological skeletons鈥. This talk provided students and academics with an insight into his work and how the process of鈥
School pupils experience codebreaking and augmented reality at mini传媒
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 mini传媒, said: 鈥淭he sessions were excellently resourced and delivered.鈥
mini传媒 Applied Computing Department in 拢1.3m partnership with technology innovation company Ten-D
The Applied Computing Department at The mini传媒 has entered into a partnership with technology innovation company Ten-D Innovations to establish world-class research and development centres in China and in mini传媒. Ten-D Innovations, based in Lingang, Shanghai, is providing鈥
Publication of the week: Paul W Finn
Antibiotics to treat bacterial infections have transformed human health.聽 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 continues鈥
mini传媒 gets gold standard in teaching excellence awards
The mini传媒 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 and鈥
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 on鈥
mini传媒鈥檚 Brownies take over the Department of Applied Computing
On Thursday 11 May the Department of Applied Computing聽 invited the Brownies of the Girlguiding mini传媒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 concepts鈥
Publication of the week: Omar Al Okashi, Hongbo Du and Hisham Al-Assam
Omar Al Okashi, Hongbo Du and Hisham Al-Assam, 鈥淎utomatic spine curvature estimation from X-ray images of a mouse model鈥, Journal of Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 140 (March 2017), 175鈥184. DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2016.12.010. Automatic segmentation and quantification of skeletal structures鈥
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 mini传媒 U3A Science & Technology Group Meeting, The Royal Latin School, mini传媒, on 1 March 2017. The aim of the talk titled 鈥淢achine Learning – Current and Future Applications鈥濃
Milton Keynes female pupils enjoy a computing lesson at The mini传媒
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 of鈥
Publication of the week: Dongxu Han, Hongbo Du & Sabah Jassim
鈥淭owards a Confidence-Centric Classification Based on Gaussian Models and Bayesian Principles鈥,聽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 used鈥
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 of鈥
Publication of the week: Dongxu Han, Naseer Al-Jawad & Hongbo Du
鈥淔acial expression identification using 3D geometric features from Microsoft Kinect device鈥, Proc. SPIE聽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 important鈥
Talk by Dr Hisham Al-Assam at St Paul鈥檚 Catholic School
Dr Hisham Al-Assam was invited again to give a talk at St Paul鈥檚 Catholic School, Milton Keynes, on 11 May 2016,聽as part of their Public Understanding of Science lectures. The aim of the talk titled 鈥淎rtificial Intelligence: Can Machines Outperform鈥
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 conference鈥
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 to鈥
mini传媒 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 mini传媒 Athletic Football Club. Our team immediately took the lead by scoring鈥
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,聽as part of their LHCS Research Seminar Programme 2016. In his talk, 鈥淐omputational life science: has it been successful鈥
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 guided鈥
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 mini传媒 where secret messages, mostly high-profile military information, were deciphered during the Second World War. Some of the students already knew鈥
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 the鈥
mini传媒鈥檚 educational partner wins Best University Award
The Sarajevo School of Science and Technology (SSST) – which has close ties with The mini传媒 – has won the Special Award for the Best University in Bosnia and Herzogovina in 2015. The award was presented to Emir鈥
Publication of the week: H. Al-Assam, T. Kuseler, S. Jassim & S. Zeadally
Al-Assam, H., T. Kuseler, S. Jassim & S. Zeadally, 鈥淧rivacy in Biometric Systems鈥, 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 mainly鈥
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 Steganography鈥
Knowledge Transfer Partnership between Russell IPM and The mini传媒
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 that鈥
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 mini传媒. Students鈥
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 grant鈥
Publication of the week: A. Al-Talabani, H. Sellahewa & S.A. Jassim
A. Al-Talabani, H. Sellahewa & S.A. Jassim, 鈥淓motion recognition from speech: Tools and challenges鈥, 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 importance鈥
Work in Progress Seminars, Summer Term
The Work in Progress Seminars continue this term with the following 6 seminars. Friday, 24 July 2015聽聽 聽David Daouda Traore, “Automatic Analysis of Cellular Signalling Parameters Based on Fluorescent Video Imaging” Friday, 7 August 2015聽聽 聽Chigozirim Oriaku, “Enhancing Cloud Computing鈥
BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium 2015: Applied Computing student wins prestigious poster competition
A mini传媒 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 at鈥
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, 鈥淎utomated characterisation of ultrasound images of ovarian tumours: the diagnostic accuracy of a support vector machine and image processing with a鈥
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. mini传媒 business students have developed the Student Proxy App to help the users in all鈥
Talk by Dr Hisham Al-Assam at St Paul鈥檚 Catholic School
Dr Hisham Al-Assam was invited to give a talk at St Paul鈥檚 Catholic School, Milton Keynes, on 22 January 2015,聽as part of their Public Understanding of Science lectures. In his talk, 鈥淐omputer Science in Medical and Biomedical Research鈥, Dr Al-Assam鈥
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 拢160,000 jointly funded by Innovate UK and a local information security company DeepNet Security in Bletchley Park, was secured鈥
mini传媒 Applied Computing Department receives prestigious accreditation
The University鈥檚 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 assessors鈥
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 a鈥
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 脡cole Nationale Polytechnique d鈥橭ran, Algeria who works in鈥
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 is鈥
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,鈥
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 Systems鈥
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”,聽Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery聽2014, 9, 1121-1131.聽 doi: 10.1517/17460441.2014.941800. Industrial, as well as academic, drug discovery efforts are usually supported by computational鈥
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 mini传媒 has developed a unique two-year undergraduate degree programme in Computer Science, which incorporates self-directed projects encouraging entrepreneurial development through innovative creation.鈥
Publication of the week: A. Abdulla, H. Sellahewa & S. Jassim
A.A. Abdulla, H. Sellahewa & S.A. Jassim, 鈥淪teganography based on pixel intensity value decomposition鈥, 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. A鈥
Top salaries for mini传媒 graduates
mini传媒 students come fourth 鈥 excluding London institutions 鈥 when it comes to graduate salaries, according to The Sunday Times. With graduates earning 拢24,175 on average in the first six months after leaving, the University is only beaten鈥
Publication of the week: H. Du, H. Al-Jubouri & H. Sellahewa
H. Du, H. Al-Jubouri & H. Sellahewa, 鈥淓ffectiveness of image features and similarity measures in cluster-based approaches for content-based image retrieval鈥, Proc. Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing, Security, and Applications (SPIE 9120, 912008, May 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2057721. Content-based image retrieval is an鈥
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),聽 2185鈥2189. DOI: 10.1021/ci500309a. Computational modelling techniques鈥
Publication of the week: Dr Stuart Hall
Hall, S., “Perelman鈥檚 entropy for some families of canonical metrics鈥,聽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 bit鈥
Publication of the week: Dr Stuart Hall
Hall, S. & T. Murphy, “Bounding Lambda_2 for some K盲hler-Einstein metrics with large symmetry groups鈥,聽Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry46.2 (2014), 145-158. The Einstein equations govern how the high-dimensional spaces聽used in modern theories of space-time聽(known as manifolds) curve. 聽One central鈥
Publication of the week: Adam Floyd & Hongbo Du
A. Floyd & H. Du, 鈥淓dna: a Software Tool for Verifying Normalisation of Relations during Logical Database Design Process鈥, 12th HEA STEM Workshop on Teaching, Learning and Assessment of Databases (University of Southampton: Higher Education Academy, July 2014), 51-61 Logical鈥
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”,聽Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Universal Access to Information and Knowledge (Lecture Notes鈥
Publication of the week: Dr Stuart Hall
Hall, S. & T. Murphy, 鈥淥n the spectrum of the Page and the Chen-LeBrun-Weber metrics鈥,聽 Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry 46.1, 87-101 (2014).聽 DOI: 10.1007/s10455-014-9412-6 The spectrum of an operator on a space tells one how functions on the鈥
The Second Cancer Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging with Deep Learning (CDUDL) Workshop聽(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 mini传媒 (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 mini传媒 on 15 May 2012. Dr Harin Sellahewa gave a presentation entitled 鈥溾. 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 mini传媒 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 & Medicine鈥檚 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 鈥淔ace recognition in unconstrained environments鈥 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 mini传媒 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 mini传媒 and Professor Sos Agaian of the University of Texas at San Antonio. The Applied Computing Department at mini传媒 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 mini传媒 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.