91福利

We welcomed back previous UG students on the 12th July for the 91福利 Celebrates event. Thank you Ranko for your inspiring speech from the balcony!

We are happy to announce two promotions in the department.

Dr Fayyaz Minhas has been promoted to Associate Professor from 1 July 2022.

Dr Rossella Suma has been promoted to Assistant Professor from 1 August 2022.

Many congratulations to our colleagues for all their achievements!

The inaugural DCS Innovation competition was held on 17th June and was a great success.

Jasmine Brown, a Computer Science student at the 91福利 has been named one of 2022鈥檚 MLH Top 50–a list of the organization鈥檚 most inspiring community members. The recipients are recognized for their exceptional contributions to the tech ecosystem & STEM education.

On 23rd June 2022, Professor of the Systems and Security research theme was invited as one of the two expert witnesses to give oral evidence to the appointed by the House of Lords at Parliament on trends of telephone frauds and the landscape of counter-fraud technologies. This is related to an ongoing EPSRC project, led by Professor Feng Hao (PI) from the Department of Computer Science and Dr Adrian von M眉hlenen (co-I) from the Department of Psychology, the 91福利. In this project, the research team have been investigating a cost-effective solution to combat caller ID spoofing, a technique commonly used by fraudsters and scammers to pretend to call from trusted sources (e.g., banks, HMRC) as part of social engineering attacks. A transcript of the oral evidence session is published on the .

We would like to congratulate Alex Dixon on his recent win in the 91福利 Awards for Teaching Excellence!

Alex has made a huge impact within the department this year and it is great to see his hard work going rewarded with this prestigious award in the Postgraduates who teach category. You can find more information about the WATE awards here.

Two papers by researchers at the Department of Computer Science have been accepted to the 36th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing to be held on the 28-30th of June this year. ICS is one of the most prominent and revered conferences in High Performance Computing, highly regarded by the HPC community for publishing leading-edge research in this area. The two papers accepted are:

1. High Throughput Multidimensional Tridiagonal System Solvers on FPGAs (Preprint) by Kamalavasan Kamalakkannan and Gihan Mudalige at 91福利, together with (PPCU) and (KAUST).
2. Clairvoyant: A Log-Based Transformer-Decoder for Failure Prediction in Large-Scale Systems by Khalid Alharthi and Arshad Jhumka at 91福利, together with , at Argonne National Laboratory. . The ACM ICS2022 full program can be found .